COURSE CURRICULUM

Term one begins with Launch, an intensive week designed to help you acclimate to your course, staff, peer group, and the school community. The activities include a guest lecture super session, an all-staff Pecha Kucha, Canterbury and surroundings walking orientation tours, and a collaborative studio launch project focused on making. In the unit Experimentation and Innovation, you’ll have the chance to explore new perspectives on design, refine analytical techniques, and experiment with production methods. This unit will help situate your practice, expanding your critical framework for the work ahead. Research and Professional Contexts 1 focuses on developing advanced skills in research, analysis, and application of knowledge, positioning you within the foundational contexts of your discipline’s past and future. Opportunity Week follows, offering an intensive week of activity in collaboration with an external partner. These activities often fall outside your immediate subject area, allowing you to explore politics, economics, business, culture, or philosophy.In Term two, the focus shifts to Studio Practice, where you’ll continue the research and development from Term one. This unit serves as a design accelerator, where you’ll formulate a research and project proposal in collaboration with your tutor. The outcome of this unit will be a comprehensive project that demonstrates a growing mastery of your practice. Research and Professional Contexts 2 extends your research and critical analysis further, with two components. The first is a contextual practice presentation, showing how your research and knowledge fit into a broader field. The second is a collaborative project, where you work with peers on a collectively defined brief.Term three culminates in Final Realisation, the final unit of your course. This unit brings together all the work you’ve done so far in research, experimentation, and concept development into a focused outcome. It represents the natural continuation and resolution of your work from Studio Practice and includes disseminating your project to external audiences.