Urban Design Futures Studio

PLAN60972 Urban Design Futures Studio 15 Semester 2 Postgraduate Taught Level 7 Philip Black Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 This course unit is designed to increase students’ knowledge and skills in understanding physical form in cities across a range of scales. The unit has a focus on emerging challenges in urban design, including issues of informality, climate,post-conflict, wellbeing and health etc . This evolves the programme to meet the needs of a constantly changing built environment and discipline, and equips students to better tackle the key future design agendas across the world.  The course unit aims to: • Introduce students to key emerging international urban design challenges including climate change, digital futures, informality, and globalisation • Develop students understanding of urban design composition and complexity in differing contextual scenarios. • Develop students understanding of the role, and limitations, of urban design in tackling political, economic, environmental, and physical issues in cities • Allow students to explore, evaluate, and compare international best practice design • To ensure students understand how more focused and tactical urban design approaches can potentially impact future challenges in place • Develop students understanding of the urban design process in practice – in particular developing design options and proposals, and design delivery • Develop further students design, graphic, visual presentation, and group-working skills On completion of this unit successful students will be able to:• Demonstrate an understanding of the applied urban design process • Employ knowledge and understanding of how to integrate best practice design lessons in unique physical contexts • Demonstrate an understanding of the physical composition, and complexity, of urban design proposals through the delivery of an urban design project  On completion of this unit successful students will be able to:• To integrate and apply urban design theory and international best practice in providing feasible and effective design interventions related to specific emerging and future design challenges. • To be able to successfully develop urban design options and proposals in differing contextual scenarios. • To develop and demonstrate professional level design presentation and visualisation skills.  On completion of this unit successful students will be able to:• Utilise advanced design software skills and presentation techniques • Ability to critique design and self-evaluate design options and proposals related to specific design challenges. • To articulate and justify design choices, and narrative, both visually and orally.  Use of Adobe creative suite; AutoCAD; Sketch-up; and urban sketching; and physical modelling to present and test ideas and concepts.  Ability to work both as part of a group and independently to deliver a design project.Presentational skills, both visual and oral.   The course unit will have the following content: • Introduction to basic urban design concept, optioneering, and technical proposal process • Identifying and unpacking a series of emerging and future urban design challenges – including climate change; informality; digital futures, and globalisation • Introducing and exploring the composition and complexity of urban design in different international settings and contexts • Exploring and comparatively evaluating international best practices on these design futures • Identifying tactical urban design approaches related to emerging challenges for long-term change in cities • A series of practical worked examples on urban design responding to future challenges in the city – as well as identifying limitations of physical interventions • A series of crits – to provide formative feedback on students design work • Peer-review • Studio workshops and technical support sessions • Presenting design process and proposals The course unit will utilise a variety of pedagogical approaches including: • Regular studio workshops • Studio crits (with summative feedback) • Peer-led design review • The online urban design toolkit • Regular tutorial teaching • Technical applied design skills workshops • Oral presentations • Design surgeries 2 Written assignment (inc essay) 60% 7 Oral assessment/presentation 40% Individual A1 board submission and oral 5 minute presentation - 20% weightingIndividual A1 board submission and oral  5 minute presentation - 20% weightingIndividual A1 Boards Submission  - 60% weighting Summative feedback in first half of the unit provided orally immediately following presentationSummative feedback in second half of the unit provided orally immediately following presentationFeedback provided via TII at the end of the course for the final assignment  N • Black, P. & Sonbli, T. 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