ABB151 Planning and Design Practice

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

This unit will introduce you to planning and design concepts underlying urban and regional planning, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. The unit draws on real world urban planning examples to develop spatial analysis and visual communication skills which are key to conducting planning analysis and making recommendations. During lectures you will learn about theories and tools relevant for imagining and designing urban spaces. You will then apply this knowledge to cases studies in Australia and/or abroad. Tutorials will help you build the necessary skills to translate your ideas and concepts into cohesive plans, maps and visual aids. These skills are necessary to communicate spatial concepts and will be of value in your academic and professional career.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Apply urban planning frameworks, approaches and design principles and collect planning data to evaluate and address real world planning problems.
2. Communicate planning concepts through oral, written and visual communication methods and using planning software.
3. Provide constructive feedback and adapt your design ideas in response to feedback.
4. Collaborate to initiate professional relationships and achieve project goals and critically reflect on your development as an effective team member.

Content

Learning Approaches

This unit employs studio pedagogy focused on real world problems, collaborative learning and action-based learning to provide opportunities for you to apply planning and design principles and approaches and practice your skills in local planning, collaboration, and problem solving.

Your participation in the unit will include:
• Weekly lectures and tutorial sessions to review concepts and discuss techniques, apply knowledge and skills, and practice specific elements of planning and design.

• Collaboration with teams through a strategic planning exercise using asynchronous collaborative online tools.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Formative feedback, written and verbal, will be provided during the lecture/ workshops. Other forms of feedback may include -

Self-Feedback:
• Informal self-reflection exercise as part of in-class activities

Peer feedback:
• Informal feedback by peers during in-class activities
• In-class case study based discussions as part of in-class activities
• Formal feedback by peers on assessment #2 and #3

Assessment

Overview

Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. Understanding of initial concepts is assessed through a quiz/test, with applied skills being assessed through an oral presentation that considers mid-project progress, and culminating in the development of a poster that illustrates your final plan for a suburb in Brisbane.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Online Quiz

This quiz is based on the content from lectures. Further details will be provided in class.

Assessment: Presentation

Acting as a team of planners, you will analyse an urban space and use figures, photographs, maps and other media to present your findings.

Assessment: Design Proposal Poster

A client has asked you to produce a poster illustrating your proposed solution for the urban space you analysed in assessment 2. Your poster will reflect planning principles to develop a cohesive design for the future use of the area. It will combine figures, photos, student created maps, and other media to communicate your design ideas. During its development, the poster will require a series of progress updates to gather client feedback in your selected design principles and draft concepts.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.

The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

No special requirements

Costs

You will need to purchase stationary and drawing materials, and pay for poster printing costs.

Resources

Resource Materials

Recommended text(s)

The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch

Other

Yellow trace, scale ruler, and drawing pens are recommended

Risk Assessment Statement

All commencing Faculty of Engineering students are required to complete the Mandatory Safety Induction

You will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres, and undertake a site visit to a suburb in Brisbane in your time. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.

Course Learning Outcomes

AB01 Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours)

1. Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines and specialist knowledge and skills in one built environment area.
   Relates to: Online Quiz, Presentation, Design Proposal Poster
2. Communicate knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
   Relates to: Presentation, Design Proposal Poster
3. Strategically collaborate with diverse stakeholders and communities, including First Nations peoples.
   Relates to: Presentation, Design Proposal Poster
4. Reflect on feedback and experience, and display professional and ethical judgment and initiative.
   Relates to: Presentation, Design Proposal Poster