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MDC5320Multimedia design studio 4
No reviews yetUnitLevel 518 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit is the capstone studio to the Multimedia Design specialisation within the Master of Design. You are required to engage with self-initiated major studio projects that demonstrate an advanced-level application of multimedia design....
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
AHT3220Museums, archives and cultural heritage
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit explores the role that art museums, cultural archives, and related collecting institutions have played in preserving cultural heritage. In it, you will learn about the origins of these institutions in Europe, and their...
Semester 2Caulfield
AHT2530Neo-Baroque aesthetics: History and theory
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit focuses on Neo-Baroque aesthetics in contemporary culture and their historical antecedents. The Baroque themes of spectacle, trompe l'oeil excess, and incorporeal experience will be examined with reference to the visual arts from...
AHT3530Neo-Baroque aesthetics: History and theory
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit focuses on Neo-Baroque aesthetics in contemporary culture and their historical antecedents. The Baroque themes of spectacle, trompe l'oeil excess, and incorporeal experience will be examined with reference to the visual arts from...
DGN2512Packaging design
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
Packaging design is a unit specifically for those who wish to explore the application of communication design processes within the realm of 3-dimensional packaging design. Packaging continues to be a prominent component of our visual...
Semester 1Caulfield
PTG2031Painting: Colour strategies
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit explores the rich history and practice of colour composition in painting. It will provide you with an in-depth engagement with a variety of colour strategies as well as the theories informing them. You will have the opportunity...
Semester 2Caulfield
PTG2033Painting: Figuration
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit investigates the technical and conceptual processes of a range of painting methods. The unit provides you with an in-depth engagement with the skills in a variety of representational and abstract painting processes. This...
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
PTG1001Painting: Introduction to materials and methods
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit investigates the technical foundations of painting. It considers the role of painting both within a rich history and as a contemporary medium of art practice. The unit provides you with an in-depth introduction to skills in a...
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
DGN1533Photographic art direction
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit will develop your skills in your ability to manipulate and control photographic imagery via a sound understanding of digital camera technology, its associated software and studio lighting. This unit will expose you to the...
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
PHO2202Photography: Advanced darkroom and lighting
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
The focus of the unit is creative photographic fine art practice and the power of the photographic image as pertaining to a contemporary artistic context. It aims to build on a preliminary understanding of the theories, histories and...
Semester 1Caulfield
PHO1204Photography: Digital imaging for contemporary art
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit is designed to develop an approach to digital imaging tools that aligns with the objectives of a contemporary art and curatorial practice. You will be introduced to digital imaging processes such as still image manipulation,...
Semester 2Caulfield
PHO1203Photography: Introduction
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit develops an understanding of concepts of photomedia and an understanding of the relationship and relevance of student photographic work to aesthetics in photography, art and design. You will undertake a series of thematic...
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
PHO2207Photography: Processes
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit introduces you to darkroom practices associated with analogue photography. It develops upon the skills and knowledge of photomedia imaging by providing a focus upon creative image production through manipulated photography...
Semester 2Caulfield
UPD4001Planning project 1: Compact city
No reviews yetUnitLevel 412 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This project unit explores the complexities and implications of the intensification of cities across multiple scales and how to actively engage in their transformation. Through real world, place-based projects, this foundational studio...
Semester 1Caulfield
UPD4002Planning project 2: Expanding city
No reviews yetUnitLevel 412 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This project unit explores the implications of expanding urbanisation on the edge of cities and towns including ecologies, built form and infrastructure. Through projects that involve the interplay between constructed and natural systems...
Semester 2Caulfield
UPD5001Planning project 3: Transforming city
No reviews yetUnitLevel 512 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This project unit explores the implications of growth dynamics across multiple scales and territories. Through projects that focus on urban access and mobility, you will develop a detailed understanding of the determinants involved in...
Semester 1Caulfield
UPD5002Planning project 4: Inclusive city
No reviews yetUnitLevel 512 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
Inclusive city focuses on issues pertinent to planning to address the challenge of creating people-centred cities. The unit expands and consolidates advanced concepts, knowledge and skills encompassing a range of complex issues relevant to...
Semester 2Caulfield
ARC2401Positions and dialogues in architecture 1
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit focuses on the multiple histories and narratives of architecture as a form of cultural production. The core structure for this unit will critically interrogate the formation of the discipline and institution of architecture along...
Semester 1Caulfield
ARC3401Positions and dialogues in architecture 2
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit focuses on co-research, collaborative writing and editing when communicating and sharing architectural ideas for a broader audience. The core structure for this unit will explore architectural publishing practices, and the...
Semester 2Caulfield
AHT2102Post-war to contemporary art
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit explores post-war and contemporary art from 1945 to the present. You will be introduced to key artists, movements, practices, exhibitions and institutions that have shaped art in local and global contexts. Key topics will include...
Semester 1Caulfield