BLTENV 101 : People, Place and Design Studio
Creative Arts and Industries
2025 Semester One (1253) (15 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | People and Place |
| Capability 2: | Sustainability |
| Capability 3: | Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 4: | Critical Thinking |
| Capability 5: | Solution Seeking |
| Capability 6: | Communication |
| Capability 7: | Collaboration |
| Capability 8: | Ethics and Professionalism |
Learning Outcomes
- Formulate and work with conceptual ideas that contribute to design solutions. (Capability 1.1, 1.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 and 8.2)
- Express project ideas and solutions through an engagement with different materials and ways of making. (Capability 2.1 and 5.2)
- Explore and analyse sites; demonstrate an understanding of site planning; and relate this to environmental uses and built design outcomes. (Capability 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3)
- Develop forms and spaces in response to contexts, concepts and design briefs (Capability 4.2 and 5.1)
- Express design ideas and design outcomes using a variety of verbal strategies, visual media, and physical models. (Capability 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.2)
- Explore a variety of design and creative work processes, work consistently and collegially in studio, and produce design outputs supportive of specific users and communities (Capability 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1 and 8.3)
Assessments
| Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Project design | 100% | Group & Individual Coursework |
| 100% |
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcome Addressed | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Project design | ||||||||||
Teaching & Learning Methods
Learning and teaching will proceed by group presentations, individual and collaborative analysis, design and project presentation
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect 5 hours of lectures, 55 hours of tutor engagement, 44 hours of designing, reading and thinking about the content all in preparation for the final presentation.
Delivery Mode
Campus Experience
Attendance is required at scheduled activities including studios and presentations to complete the course.
Presentations will be available as recordings. Studio learning activities will not be available as recordings.
The course will not include live online events.
Attendance on campus is required for the final presentation.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable delivery.
Learning Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
Health & Safety
Induction and instruction in the use of the workshop facilities will be provided. Instruction in making and designing activities in the studios will be provided.
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
This is a new course
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework, tests and examinations as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against electronic source material using computerised detection mechanisms. Upon reasonable request, students may be required to provide an electronic version of their work for computerised review.
Class Representatives
Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Studio design papers have an extension process to assist in cases of academic interruption.
Extension applications should include evidence, such as medical certificates, when available.
Learning Continuity
We undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions, the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. In the event of a disruption, the University and your course coordinators will make every effort to provide you with up to date information via Canvas and the University website.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.
The School provides a "Use of Studio Rules" document defining safe and appropriate behaviour and activity in studios. Students are expected to conform to these rules at all times
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.