CODE3100_COURSE_OUTLINE________________

CODE3100 Digital Collaboration Studio

SESSION ONE 2015

UNITS OF CREDIT, 6UOC

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

www.code3100-2015.blogspot.com
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/code3100-2015
info.library.unsw.edu.au/web/services/services.html
red centre guide
Campus Map

Lectures

COURSE CONVENER

Russell Lowe russell.lowe@unsw.edu.au
Office Number 2026, Second Floor

STUDIO TUTORS

Nicole Gardner n.gardner@unsw.edu.au
Office Number 2007, Second Floor

GROUPS

Group list

TIME

4 hours per week.

Lecture: Wednesday 0:900 - 10:00, Quadrangle G053 (K-E15-G053)
Studio: Wednesday 10:00 - 13:00, Quadrangle 1045 (K-E15-1045)

In addition to the 4 hours spent in class students are expected to spend an additional 8 hours per week on self directed study for this course.

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND AIMS

This course is part of the practice orientated teaching trajectory ‘Calibrating in the Stream 2: Optimisation and Decision Support, in the student specialisation journey. This is a studio based design course. The focus is on developing a framework for Computational and Spatial Design research through critique of ‘collaboration’. Students will begin to define a major in either ‘constructing’; ‘calibrating’ or ‘contextualising’. The course preparation facilitates, through digital collaboration further skill foundation with a group project. A main investigation topic-‘Grand Narrative’ interconnects all projects in Year 3. The ‘Grand Narrative’ is set by the course lecturers each year and is announced at the beginning of the semester. Peer review will engage, challenge and question academic and industry points of view.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES TO BE DEVELOPED WITHIN THE STUDIO

At the end of this course students will have:

Developed skills in critical thinking and problem solving using the contemporary instruments of collaboration.
Developed skills in critical thinking and problem solving using digital representation. Students will engage with a range of important software over the duration of the semester.
Developed research skills especially as they relate to formulating research questions and critical reflection.
Developed interpersonal skills and strategies including oral and written communication and negotiation.
Developed breathtaking and significant objects, spaces, interactions, algorithms and environments.

Students should also review the UNSW graduate attributes.

GENERAL LINKS AND RECOMENDED TEXTS:

SCHEDULE:

WEEK	DATE OF LECTURE/STUDIO	LECTURE/ STUDIO NUMBER	LECTURE CONTENT	STUDIO CONTENT	INDEPENDENT STUDY
01	Wednesday, 04 March	01	Introduction, Collaboration, Project Descriptions and targeted CV's	Establish Blog, Review Projects, Individual Meetings	Targeted CV (0%, must submit to pass the course)
	Sunday, 08 March				Submission: Targeted CV
02	Wednesday, 11 March	02	Guest Lecture: Suleiman Alhadidi	Project Allocation, Back Briefs and Team Roles	Establish Wiki, Back Brief
03	Wednesday, 18 March	03	Guest Lecture: Richard Goodwin	Group Presentations of Back Briefs	Targeted Knowledge/Skills Acquisition
04	Wednesday, 25 March	04	Guest Lecture: Adrian McGregor	Group Meetings	Targeted Knowledge/Skills Acquisition
05	Wednesday, 01 April	05	Presenting Ideas and Concepts	Group Presentation Allocation, Group and Individual Meetings	Group Presentation, Work towards Individual Major Milestone
06 Non Teaching Week
Mid Semester Break
07	Wednesday, 22 April	06	Guest Lecture: Andrew Butler	Group Presentation 1: Planning, Group Meetings	Group Presentation, Work towards Individual Major Milestone
08	Wednesday, 29 April	07	Guest Lecture: Rob Asher	Group Presentation 2: Communication, Individual Meetings	Group Presentation, Work towards Individual Major Milestone
	Tuesday, 05 May			Individual Major Milestone: Material for Assessment	Submission 20%
09	Wednesday, 06 May	08	Guest Lecture: Andrew Wallace	Group Presentation 3: Intellectual Property, Individual Meetings: Major Milestone Submission.	Group Presentation, Work towards Final Project
10	Wednesday, 13 May	09	No Guest Lecture this Week	Group Presentation 4: Conflict, Group Meetings	Group Presentation, Work towards Final Project
11	Wednesday, 20 May	10	Guest Lecture: Neil Hill	Group Presentation 5: Remuneration, Individual Meetings	Group Presentation, Work towards Final Project
12	Wednesday, 27 May	11	Guest Lecture: Jerry Stamoulis	Group Meetings	Work towards Final Project Submission
13	Wednesday, 03 June	12	Group Presentation Final Project		Work towards Final Individual Submission
14	Wednesday, 10 June			Submit Individual Material for Assessment; Submit Final Project Material for Assessment:	Submission 20% + 35% (EXTENSION for group project)
15	Friday, 19 June			Graduation project Pitch	Graduation Project Pitch (0%, must pass to pass the course).

ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN

WEEK	TITLE	DATE OF SUBMISSION	METHOD OF SUBMISSION	% OF FINAL GRADE
1	Targeted CV	Sunday, 08 March, by 9:00pm	Individual Blog	0%, must submit to pass the course
4-9	Individual Major Milestone	Tuesday, 05 May by 9:00pm	Individual Blog	20%
6-11	Group Presentation: Reflecting Collaboration	Wednesday's, in class	Group Wiki	25%
2-12	Group Presentation: Final project	Wednesday, 10 June	Group Wiki	35%
1-13	Individual Contribution and Assessment	Wednesday, 10 June	Individual Blog	20%
13-15	Graduation Project Pitch	Friday, 19 June	Poster Presentation	0%, must pass to pass the course

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

You will be assessed on the level and extent to which you engage with the learning outcomes for the course and the assessment criteria listed in each brief.

Students need to submit all five submissions listed in the Assessment Breakdown to pass the course.

ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

The Built Environment and UNSW Academic Policies document supplements this course outline providing detail on academic policies and other administrative matters. It is your duty as a student to familiarise yourself with the policies and guidelines as not adhering to them will be considered as academic misconduct. Ignorance of the rules is not an acceptable defence.

The document can be found in your Blackboard course as well as:
http://www.be.unsw.edu.au/student-intranet/academic-policies

It covers:

Built Environment Student Attendance Requirements
Units of Credit (UOC) and Student Workload
Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement (CATEI)
Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Late Submissions Penalties
Special Consideration - Illness & Misadventure
Extension of Deadlines
Learning Support Services
Occupational Health & Safety

COURSE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Student feedback on the course is gathered both formally (through the Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement, CATEI, process) and informally via a group of student representatives. The course as described above has benefited positively through this process and the course coordinator encourages your participation to further strengthen it. While many of the components of the course are fixed at the outset of each session, there is some flexibility in terms of day to day tasks and scheduling, so if there are issues students can see arising that may be easily avoided through a simple adjustment please let the course coordinator, your tutor or student representative know.