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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This project-oriented course focuses on how the intended use or function of an object provides an important framework for how it is made and understood. This course will develop and extend students' technical, material and conceptual skills, and may include the use of hand making skills, engineering equipment and/or other processes. By applying critical thinking to a broad range of materials and processes, students will devise individual responses to the broad concept of utility or function. Studio theory is undertaken to examine historical and contemporary contexts where utility is a formative framework for an original work or object. Workplace health and safety (WHS) instruction is an integral part of this course.
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks: lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice, reading and writing. Other Information School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.