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Welcome to KDA102 Sustainable Design for Houses and Landscapes This Unit Outline is your comprehensive guide to what the unit is about, and what you will need to do to participate in, and successfully complete the unit. Weight

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Teaching Period

July 12th, 2021 – Oct 10th, 2021

Unit Coordinator

Dr Ceridwen Owen Architecture & Design, College of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Inquiries for unit teaching team

Please direct all queries, requests for support and requests for extensions to the Diploma of Sustainable Living Contact Centre team: Email: [email protected] Use the relevant online discussion topics in the Sustainable Design for Houses and Landscapes MyLO (UTASonline learning) site to ask the teaching team questions about the unit. If you have an inquiry about your learning experience that is unsuitable for sharing on a discussion board, email the unit coordinator: [email protected]

Learning materials are provided online in video, visual and text formats. For inquiries about your UTAS password or if you require technical support to manage this online learning environment please contact the Service Desk online at: Technical support

http://www.utas.edu.au/selfservice You can also call the Service Desk on 03 6226 1818 for assistance. The Service Desk opening hours are 8.00am to 6.00pm weekdays and 10:00am - 1:00pm on weekends and state-wide Tasmanian public holidays.

Enrolment inquiries

For information about your enrolment please contact the Diploma of Sustainable Living Contact Centre team viaemail at [email protected] during business hours.

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Description This unit will build on your practical knowledge of sustainable design for houses, expanding your thinking to houses within landscapes - both natural and constructed - and interacting with climate, biodiversity, human health and urban and regional food systems. You will explore systems-based design approaches including regenerative design, resilience thinking, permaculture principles and biophilic design that will enable you to better integrate your house within wider living systems and communities. Through innovative, holistic precedent analysis, self-directed field study and structured design exercises, you will devise practical strategies to create, for example, adaptive microclimates around your house, a home-based food system, and conditions for improved backyard biodiversity, while also targeting well-being and bushfire design awareness. With these systems-based perspectives, you will likely see numerous new opportunities for action at home that contribute to ecological restoration and the well-being of your household and community.

Rationale Sustainable Design for Houses and Landscapes is an introductory-level unit that builds on prior learning in Sustainable Design for Houses. It covers a range of issues relevant to multiple situations and will equip students with the knowledge to make judgements about priorities relevant to their own needs.

Approaches to learning and teaching

A lot of your learning will take place within the University of Tasmania’s online learning environment called MyLO (‘my learning online’). This is where you will access the content within the Modules we provide. Each Module contains Chapters of content which you can click on to access, as well as other material relevant to Sustainable Design for Houses and Landscapes. Aim to access MyLO at least once a week for the duration of this unit. Our MyLO site works optimally on a desktop or laptop computer (a PC or MAC), and you will need a relatively high speed internet connection. Use your UTAS user name and password to login to your UTAS webmail at least once a week as we will be using this to communicate with you.

Intended learning outcomes For every unit of study at University, such as KDA101 Sustainable Design for Houses and Landscapes, there are learning outcomes that we intend for you to achieve. By successfully completing this unit, you will be able to: 1. Relate sustainable design for houses to larger scale landscape and urban growth issues and challenges. 2. Identify design implications for houses and gardens linked to climate, topography, biodiversity and household needs. 3. Evaluate and adapt a range of systems-based design principles for specific housing and landscape contexts 4. Propose design strategies that promote health, wellbeing and ecological restoration at the scale of a selected house and community.

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Study Schedule The following study schedule indicates the topics that will be covered in each of our five Modules. The unit is selfpaced, but allow two weeks to complete each module. There is an online quiz at the completion of Modules 1, 2, 3 and 4 and two major assignment tasks due at the end of week 8 and week 12.

Study Schedule Module 1

Dates Weeks 1 & 2 12 – 25 Jul (content available 11 Jul @6pm)

Module Topics Module 1: Housing and Landscapes – The Bigger Picture Welcome and Introduction Chapter One: Settlements

Assignments AT1 Quiz: 1 (by 25 Jul @11.30pm EST)

Chapter Two: Settlements and Food Chapter Three: Settlements and Climate Chapter Four: Settlements and Biodiversity Chapter Five: Settlements and Community

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Weeks 3 & 4 26 Jul – 8 Aug (content available 18 Jul @ 6pm)

Module 2: Beyond Sustainable Design for Houses Chapter One: Future Landscapes Chapter Two: Resilient and Regenerative Design Chapter Three: Permaculture Chapter Four: Exemplar Projects

AT1 Quiz: 2 (by 8 Aug @ 11.30pm EST)

Chapter Five: Field Report and Design Project 3

Weeks 5 & 6 9 – 22 Aug (content available 1 Aug @ 6pm)

Module 3: Designing and Adapting Chapter One: Changing Climate Chapter Two: Microclimate Chapter Three: Designing for Extremes: Temperature

AT1 Quiz: 3 (by 22 Aug @ 11.30pm EST)

Chapter Four: Designing for Extremes: Water Chapter Five: Designing for Extremes: Storms and Bushfires 4

Weeks 7 & 8 23 Aug – 5 Sep (content available 15 Aug @ 6pm)

Module 4: Designing for Health and Wellbeing Chapter One: Biophilia and Biophilic Design Chapter Two: Connecting with Nature – Direct Connections Chapter Three: Connecting with Nature – Indirect Associations Chapter Four: Healthy Habitats - Community Chapter Five: Healthy Habitats - Fauna

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Weeks 9 & 10 6 Sep – 19 Sep (content available 29 Aug @ 6pm)

Weeks 11 - 13

AT1 Quiz: 4 (by 5 Sep @ 11.30pm EST) AT2 due (by 5 Sep @ 11.30pm EST)

Module 5: Systems, Materials and Components Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Roof Gardens and Vertical Landscapes Chapter Three: Contained Gardens Chapter Four: Greenhouses Chapter Five: Food Spaces in the Home Chapter Six: Greywater Systems Non-teaching period – work on AT3

AT3 due (by 10 Oct @ 11.30pm EST)

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Specific attendance/performance requirements

In this unit, your active engagement will be monitored in the following way: 1. Logging into the Unit on MyLO 2. Completion of the first Quiz for Module 1 by week 3 If you do not demonstrate evidence of having engaged actively with this unit by completing these two activities by Week 4 of semester, your enrolment may be cancelled or you may be withdrawn from the unit.

Assessment

This is a graded unit, so your final mark (score) will result in a grade of High Distinction (80% or higher), Distinction (70-79%), Credit (60-69%), Pass (50-59%) or Fail (less than 50%). To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes (see the assignment schedule below, which shows the links between the assignment tasks and the learning outcomes). Your final grade will be determined based on the results achieved in each of the assignment tasks as follows: •

Task 1: Four [4] Module Quizzes (20%)

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Task 2: Field Report (30%)

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Task 3: Design Project (50%)

A marking rubric (a chart of your performance against the assessment criteria) for the Field Report (task 2) and the Design Project (task 3) will be provided under ‘Assessments > Rubrics’ in MyLO. These are also available in the Content>Assessment Resources tab. If there are circumstances that mean you need more time to complete a Module, please contact the Diploma of Sustainable Living Central Contact Team (Email: [email protected]) and they will assist in re-opening assignments. There are no late penalties in this unit but there are limits on extensions that can be offered.

Feedback Feedback in this unit will be provided to you in multiple ways, including: • • • • •

feedback from fellow students and teaching staff using discussion boards, a grade for each of the online quizzes at the end of the relevant Module (Assignment 1), a grade, assessor’s comments, and rubric for the Field Report (Assignment 2), a grade, assessor’s comments, and rubric for the Design Project (Assignment 3), a final grade for the unit recorded on MyLO (Grades).

Alternations to the unit as a result of student feedback We continuously aim to improve the unit in response to student feedback. You can provide feedback on the relevant MyLO discussion board or through the University’s eVALUate process. This unit was run for the first time in 2021 and feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Minor changes have been made to the online content and assignment information and templates in response to student feedback.

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Assignment 1: Four [4] Online Quizzes Task description

Links to intended learning outcomes Assessment criteria

For this assessment task you must complete 4 online multiple-choice quizzes by the end of weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8. The quizzes are based on content presented in each Module. 1, 2 Correct responses to quiz questions. Two attempts are permitted. The highest grade will be recorded. Marks are provided in the MyLO Quiz tool and results displayed under Grades.

Percent weighting

Due date

20% The quizzes should be completed by the following dates: Module 1 quiz: 11:30pm AEDT Sunday 25 July, 2021 Module 2 quiz: 11:30pm AEDT Sunday 8 Aug, 2021 Module 3 quiz: 11:30pm AEDT Sunday 22 Aug, 2021 Module 4 quiz: 11:30pm AEDT Sunday 5 Sept, 2021

Assignment 2: Field Report Task description

In this assignment you will undertake an analysis of a particular housing context. In most cases this will be the place where you currently live, but it can also be a property that you own and intend to build on, or the dwelling of a family member or close friend as long as you can access it directly and make multiple visits. There are three components of the Field Report: 1. Climate context, including assessment of climate averages, extremes and trends and influences of landscape and built features on microclimate 2. Site analysis, including detailed observational analysis of the property and the surrounding area through the lenses of climate, food production, biodiversity and community and identification of identifying key risks and opportunities. 3. Design proposal, including an outline of the scope & rationale for your design project (to be developed in AT3) based on identified problems and opportunities from the above analysis and principles of regenerative and resilient design.

Task length

Approx. 1000 words, location plan, site plan + images. Further information will be provided on MyLO (Module 2: Chapter 5)

Submission requirements

You should submit your assignment on the template provided in MyLO to the AT2: Field Report drop box.

Links to intended learning outcomes

1, 2, 3, 4

Assessment criteria

An assessment rubric will be provided to you on MyLO. It explains the criteria against which your answers will be assessed. Feedback will be provided within MyLO in the Assignments tool and results displayed under Grades.

Per cent weighting

30%

Due date

End week 8: 11:30pm AEDT Sunday 5 Sept, 2021 (dropbox open 15 Aug) 5

Assignment 3: Design Project Task description

The Design Project will build on the Field Report and the identified problems and opportunities. The scope of the design project will vary depending on individual needs, interests and circumstances but needs to relate to principles of resilient and regenerative design, consider connections to the landscape and public domain, and include at least one strategy related to design for climate and at least one design opportunity to support food production, biodiversity and/or community (note the same design solution can relate to multiple strategies and issues). There are three components to the Design Project: 1. Project rationale - the scope of your design project (what you are proposing) and how it relates to principles of resilient and regenerative design and to the themes of design for climate, food production, biodiversity and/or community (why) 2. Precedents – selected projects (min 3) that relate to the themes and principles you are exploring in your design project including a statement of how they can be adapted and applied in your context 3. Design strategies – images, drawings, models and/or descriptions of the specific design strategies and solutions you are proposing.

Links to intended learning outcomes

2, 3, 4

Task Length

Min. 6 - max. 8 A4 pages (text + images). Further information will be provided on MyLO in Module 2 (Chapter 5)

Submission requirements

You should submit your assignment on the template provided in MyLO to the AT3: Design Proposal drop box.

Assessment criteria

An assessment rubric will be provided to you on MyLO. Feedback will be provided within MyLO in the Assignments tool and results displayed under Grades.

Per cent weighting

50%

Due date

End week 13: 11:30pm AEDT Sunday 10 Oct, 2021 (dropbox open 19 Sept)

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Academic Integrity

Academic misconduct includes cheating, plagiarism, allowing another student to copy work for an assignment or any other conduct by which a student: •

Seeks to gain, for themselves or for any other person, any academic advantage or advancement to which they or that other person are not entitled; or

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Improperly disadvantages any other student.

Students engaging in any form of academic misconduct may be dealt with under the Ordinance of Student Discipline, and this can include imposition of penalties that range from a deduction/cancellation of marks to exclusion from a unit or the University. More information is available from the Academic Integrity for Students webpage.

‘I have health issues that impact on my study – what should I do?’ If you have a health condition or disability that impacts on your study, please visit the Disability Services website for information and to access assistance http://www.utas.edu.au/students/disability/students

‘I am thinking of withdrawing from this unit – what should I do?’ If you are thinking of withdrawing from this unit, please contact the Diploma of Sustainable Living Contact Centre team via email at [email protected]

University-initiated Withdrawal Process The University reserves the right to withdraw a student from this unit (without academic penalty) if that student has not demonstrated sufficient engagement with the necessary activities associated with the unit (for example, through lack of required participation, or failure to submit assignments).

Census Date The census date for this unit is 10 August 2021.

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