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BPSD5010: Designing with Culture
2025 unit information
Cultural awareness is fundamental to designing a sustainable built environment. Culture is both a pillar of sustainability and a shaper of lifestyles. These in turn affect attitudes towards resourcefulness, place awareness and intergenerational responsibility. In this unit we will explore how different cultures approach these themes in the built environment and how we can learn from traditional knowledges. This is a highly interactive unit which emphasizes deep listening, cross-cultural discussion and the translation of traditional knowledge into buildings.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Architecture |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Evaluate how culture influences the design, understanding and inhabitation of a building, urban space or environment
- LO2. Apply cultural frameworks including First Nations design and planning frameworks to critique design processes, spatial behaviours, and environments
- LO3. Evaluate how vernacular architecture reflects and reinforces the world views of its users.
- LO4. Employ appropriate qualitative research methods to design with culture
- LO5. Practise communicating ideas for a diversity of audiences
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