The course will provide students with the skills to interpret relationships between urban spaces and specific cultural practices and patterns of habitation. Sydney provides the primary site for student projects; its multicultural character offers a rich context for interrogating the relationship between architecture and culture.
The course is run as a series of weekly seminars followed by group discussions and presentations and prefaced by prescribed online content and tasks (accessed and completed by students independently prior to the seminar) that form the basis for discussions and presentations
Techniques and approaches used will include:
- Active student participation
- Integrating research
This course is within the Faculty of Built Environment
About Dr Dijana Alic
Dijana is the Associate Dean Education at UNSW Faculty of Built Environment, and teaches design, history and theory in architecture. She has been a Scientia Education Academy Fellow since 2018.
Dijana’s work centres on themes of social equality, cultural memory and political history as expressed within the urban fabric. As the current Associate Dean of Education, Dijana seeks to promote and foster social, cultural and intellectual diversity in her teaching and research. Dijana’s interest in the interface between scholarship and teaching is ideally suited to linking professional, government and industry sectors with academia and has allowed her to develop numerous postgraduate design and research courses that have connected the university’s educational context to both government and non-government organisations.
To read more, visit Dijana's bio page on the Teaching Gateway
