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ItemSelling Your Design: Oral Communication Pedagogy in Design Education(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2005-01)Good design skills are the main focus of assessment practices in design education and are evaluated primarily by drawings and models. In some settings, design studio pedagogy tends to reflect only these content-oriented assessment priorities, with minimal attention paid to the development of oral communication skills. Yet, in many professional contexts, architects need both sets of skills: design competence and the ability to articulate designs for an audience. This paper explores two approaches to oral communication pedagogy in design education - a public speaking approach and a genre-based linguistic approach - and then applies one particular linguistic approach to novice design studio presentations. Based on the findings of this study, we argue that the linguistic, genre-based approach can best offer language-based, discipline-specific description of performance strategies, rhetorical structures, and the linguistic realizations of such structures. Such information can contribute to improved pedagogical practice in the design studio.
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ItemInternational comparison of building energy performance standards(Australia Greenhouse Office, Department of Environment and Heritage, 2005)The background to this study is the proposed changes to the Building Codes of Australia energy efficiency provisions. Specifically, these include the proposed 5-star Australian standard (BCA Verification Method V2.6.2.1) and enhancement of the DTS provisions (refer BCA Part 3.12). The aims of this study are two-fold: • Test the relative stringency of the proposed 5-star Australian standard (BCA Verification Method V2.6.2.1) against housing performance in comparative countries, and; • Compare the enhanced DTS provisions (refer BCA Part 3.12) with comparative countries.
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ItemTrans-disciplinarity within the discipline(QUT, 2005)Architecture, while desirous of maintaining its autonomy, has always been fascinated by other disciplines, and has frequently appropriated concepts and models from science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and so on. Architectural education has likewise contributed to such interdisciplinary pursuits. This paper will argue that while the ongoing investigation into other disciplines is of great value to architecture, the capacities and tasks proper to architecture need to be examined in more depth. Architecture must negotiate ways of maintaining its autonomy while remaining permeable to the influence of other disciplines. This is specifically relevant when it comes to the area of design education, which in its own right collects together a number of specific disciplines, such as interior, landscape, urban design and architecture. Within my own practice, which is strongly related to my teaching experience, the concept of trans-scale, as well as the establishment of trans-disciplinary networks, has facilitated a greater understanding of the potentialities of architecture as both an autonomous and open discipline. In order to investigate what I call the trans-disciplinary possibilities of architecture I will present work undertaken in two design studios with students from RMIT University. The first design studio, undertaken with architecture students, was an examination of a minor context embedded in a major context, specifically the city of Stuttgart. The second studio, which I have more recently completed, is an interior design studio in which students are asked to study and design a public square in Melbourne in order to understand their discipline with respect to both the broader scale of the city, and the more discrete scale of public furniture and design object. With both exercises I address the idea of a relationship between the different design disciplines, ie interior design and urban design, and frame it with trans-disciplinary questions. For instance, what is the role of the history of a city and the context of a site on a design concept? How great could be the impact of furniture considered within an urban project?
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ItemNo Preview AvailableLangsam durch belebte Strassen gehen(Bauverlag, 2005)A walk through the city, following the cultural spine, curated as conversation between a local and a stranger. Discussing recent architectural projects in Melbourne, Australia. An introduction to a special feature with six separate articles.
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ItemResearch into identifying Effective Learning Environments(OECD Publications, 2005)The evaluation of school learning environments has for decades traditionally focused on the technical performance of the facilities with little attention being paid to their pedagogical performance or effectiveness. There are a range of ‘top down’ imperatives which have driven such an approach, including the need to sustainably finance educational infrastructure and show evidence as to how this money is being spent successfully. This need is emerging following the funding approaches now being taken by such bodies as the European Investment Bank and in Public Private Partnerships. On the other hand ‘bottom up’ imperatives have considered the pedagogical performance of learning environments as a means of providing feedback to authorities especially in the process of procurement. This in turn has influenced the development of planning and design guidelines. This paper examines more closely the educational learning environment and the qualitative and quantitative research measures that have been used in recent times to determine their effectiveness. It explores some of the pedagogy and environment performance measures that have evolved and views these in the context of emerging research and evidence which attempts to relate pedagogy (including student and teacher attitudes) to space. It examines some case studies and focuses on the recently developed DET Victoria pedagogy-space strategies. Finally some conclusions are drawn and suggestions made for possible future research directions.
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ItemAn assessment of the energy and water embodied in commercial building construction(Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society, 2005)
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ItemCraft Unbound: Making the Common Precious(Craftsman House, 2005)
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ItemChildren, Families and the Nation in 1950s Australia(Museum Victoria, 2005)
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ItemAn investigation of Chinese BOT projects in water supply: a comparative perspective(Informa UK Limited, 2005-11)
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ItemValidation of the use of input-output data for embodied energy analysis of the Australian construction industry(Bilingual Publishing, 2005)