AR80561: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN V_ CREATIVE PLACEMAKING (2025)

This is to welcome you to the first semester of year 3, and the studio module on Architectural Design V_CREATIVE PLACEMAKING. The course aims to introduce students to the general concept of placemaking and its application in Architecture, within the context of sustainable urbanisation. It integrated people-centered design and outlines strategies that can be applied to embed culture into architectural projects to achieve place attachment which is further linked to positive citizenship, better health and safety outcomes. In exploring how places and spaces are important components of our personal, social, and cultural identities, it allows students to learn from and critique a series of specific case studies. Ultimately, the course gives students the opportunity to make new connections with people and place, while envisioning new relationships between community and place, through which they explore the possibilities of placemaking using a selected public space project

Module Leader: Dr Josephine Malonza