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Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Dr Kim Dovey.
Contact: 3 hours of seminar per week throughout one semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this program students should be able to demonstrate that they: i) can understand and articulate the role of the built environment in the production and reproduction of power relations; ii) can understand and articulate issues of class, race, gender and cultural difference in relation to built form; iii) can think critically and act ethically in response to the complex web of power relations within which design practice is enmeshed.
Content:
Theoretical perspectives and issues to be covered include: disciplinary technology, segregation, surveillance, post-colonialism, democratisation of design, feminist theory, aesthetic ideology, politics of representation and structuration theory. The embodiment of power relations in the built environment will be explored at a range of scales and building types including urban design, public institutions, corporate buildings, shopping centres and housing.
Assessment:
Assignments up to the equivalent of 7,500 words. Details, including the weighting of assessment, will be made available within the first two weeks of semester.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (Volume 4 page 41)
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