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Are you are an undergraduate student
needing more
credit to complete your
degree? Do you
have a feeling for theory?
You can attend the Theory
Spine seminars ('spinal
rap') and complete assessment tasks with a
designated member of the theory staff to gain a
theory credit. Please contact Kathleen Connellan
for further information.
Undergraduate and postgraduate students are welcome to attend the 'spinal rap' seminars.
'Spinal rap' seminar program 2011
Links to readings, presentations and other files are staff and student access only.
| Time and venue | Facilitator | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 4 April, 5.00-6.00pm, H6.12, Hawke Building, City West |
Dr Mary Knights Director, SASA Gallery |
Writing an exhibition proposal
|
| 9 May, 5.00-6.00pm H6.12, Hawke Building, City West |
Dr Myra Thiessen Lecturer, Visual Communication Design |
A childish perspective: designing literacy materials for children with dyslexia
|
| 6 June, 5.00-6.00pm H6.12, Hawke Building, City West |
Dr Andrew Leach ARC Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Architecture Griffith School of Environment |
What is Architectural History?
|
| 29 July,
10.00-11.00am K3.25, Kaurna Building City West |
Ass Prof Barbara
Bolt Associate Dean VCA |
Seminar synopses
Writing an exhibition proposal
As Director of the SASA Gallery, Mary Knights will present some useful hints and tips on how to write an exhibition proposal. This will include the process for writing to exhibit at the SASA Gallery.
A childish perspective: designing literacy
materials for children with dyslexia
This presentation discusses some concerns about just how 'seriously we take the child reader'. It explores how the use of both qualitative and quantitative research methods can help the designers of literacy materials for children create more effective reading books through the practical example of a series of studies undertaken with children who experience reading difficulty.
What is Architectural History?
Architects and patrons have long been interested in the field of precedents and exemplars on which the architect's work draws and which it, in turn, extends for architects of the future. The nineteenth-century emergence of a modern, scientific historiography of architecture as a department of Kunstwissenschaft provoked a shift in the nature of the questions asked by architects of their history: from the maintenance of traditional knowledge and enquiry into architecture persistent values to the theoretical examination of historical patterns and shifts, significance and such mechanisms as influence, transmission, expression and representation.
In posing the question What is Architectural History? (Polity 2010) Leach considers the inheritance of this moment for those who, in the last century, have pursued the historiography of architecture and thereby shaped the contemporary academic filed of architectural history. He will relate the main lines of contemporary historical enquiry maintained by those working in the discipline - the questions, methods and frameworks of architectural historians - to the place of architectural history in contemporary architectural culture.
Practice as Research: prove it in words!
This workshop comes highly recommended following last year's ACUADS conference. Barbara takes an artwork and explains step by step how to write it in words. Therefore for those of you who become frustrated by the need to justify everything and to prove everything that you create and make (as research) in words, come along and see how it can be done quite painlessly.
Postgraduate critiques
The postgraduate critiques are run every Friday morning in the Liverpool Street Gallery during Study Periods 2 and 5. Two higher degree by research (HDR) students present their studio work each week to the other HDR students and supervisors who critique and provide comment on their work.