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DESA9014: Arch and Design Material Processes (Ceramics)
2023 unit information
This practical unit explores ceramic media and processes. Students will investigate different fabrication techniques such as slip-casting, ceramic rapid prototyping and analogue modelling. There will be an emphasis on ceramics as a modelling medium in design and architecture. Students will be given access to the Design Modelling and Fabrication Lab within the school to investigate possibilities for ceramic production. This exploration will be in relation to historic and contemporary architectural frameworks. Set projects will enable students to explore expression and design in an architectural form and materiality context. Students will be expected to produce a research process journal and report on how a particular practitioner/s or movement has informed or influenced their project/s.
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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AWSS2010 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate workshop skills to produce forms using hand-building ceramic techniques
- LO2. demonstrate specific skills relevant to the discipline of study (such as an ability to use brushwork and coloured glaze and under glaze applications through class demonstrations and work on projects)
- LO3. think critically and creatively adopting new ideas and processes in their ceramic work
- LO4. design forms through research, drawing and making, critically articulating the materiality of Ceramics
- LO5. make effective use of visual, verbal and written forms of communication to understand, document, demonstrate, critique and negotiate ideas
- LO6. make critical inquiries through a conceptual framework with relevant research, especially relating back to own practice of architecture
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