This course introduces students to fundamental knowledge and skills required for solid timber design and construction. Students will explore generative design strategies to think outside of culturally entrenched forms or fixed archetypes of tables. Experimenting with both concepts and structures, students will consider new table designs that go beyond the constraints of functionalism. The course is taught through a combination of readings, lectures, discussions, demonstrations, supervised practice and critiques that exposes students to relevant technology, theory, history, design and making processes. Students will investigate how to incorporate structures, surfaces and allowance for wood movement through designing and building furniture pieces that feature an elevated surface. Topics covered include observation/inventory of existing forms, design ideation, scale drawings, timber selection, joinery using hand tools and machines, and other relevant woodworking processes. Students will work both during and outside of class to to realise samples, models, and a full-scale furniture project. Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) instruction is an integral part of this course.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- perform a range of drawing tasks to develop a novel and viable design (e.g. brainstorming, sketching, refining, drafting);
- practice, experiment with, and execute a range of woodworking techniques (e.g. joinery, shaping, textures);
- investigate and discuss other creative works and theoretical concepts to inform and contextualise their projects;
- recognise and account for the limitations of specific material properties of timber that impact structural integrity (e.g. grain, movement);
- connect conceptual ideas to built forms through intentional compositional choices; and
- plan and realise a completed prototype in solid timber that solves for the prompt of "elevated surface".
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.
Indicative Assessment
- Folio of annotated drawings documenting generative and iterative design processes (20) [LO 1,4,5]
- Presentation on a relevant era/genre/movement of craft and design (5-8 minute slide presentation) (20) [LO 3]
- Folio of woodworking samples exploring techniques (20) [LO 2,4]
- Completed prototype for an elevated surface in solid timber (40) [LO 2,3,5,6]
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Workload
130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) 48 hours of contact: lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and
b) 82 hours of independent research, design, reading, writing and studio practice.
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
None specified
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 12
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $3780 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $5280 |
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Second Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7292 | 22 Jul 2024 | 29 Jul 2024 | 31 Aug 2024 | 25 Oct 2024 | In Person | View |
