KYB120 Makers and Breakers: Creative Media and Technologies Lab
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| Unit code: | KYB120 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $996 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,356 |
| International unit fee | $4,668 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KYB120 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinators: | Greg Jenkins | g2.jenkins@qut.edu.au Thomas Studley | thomas.studley@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This foundational unit introduces you to a range of creative technologies and digital literacies that will inform your creative arts practice. You will engage in creative workshops with an emphasis on curiosity and openness, developing skills you will build on as you progress through your studies. You will also engage in a tutorial series that will consolidate your workshop experiences through critical discussion, debate and analysis that situate your experiences within broader theoretical concepts.
This unit emphasises creative risk tasking and experimentation to help you develop a speculative arts practice and encourages active and enquiring participation.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an introductory understanding of some key concepts and approaches underpinning how creative technologies inform and innovate in creative practice.
- Produce and apply introductory knowledge of a range of creative technologies as experiments in a workshop setting.
- Identify and appraise the processes and outcomes undertaken within the workshop environment contextualised as a scholarly manner.
- Engage in an ethical and professional manner reflective of an inclusive learning environment.
Content
This foundational unit introduces you to a range of creative technologies and digital literacies that will inform your creative arts practice. The learning approach emphasises experimentation and encourages active and enquiring participation.
Learning Approaches
Tutorials, workshops, online resources, readings
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback on learning will be provided through in-class activities facilitated by your workshop leaders, as well as in peer-to-peer class discussion in workshops and tutorials. You will receive summative and formative feedback through your formal assessment tasks.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment for this unit involves both formal and informal components, and group and individual work.
Assessment 1 is based on your engagement with a range of creative media and technological skill development activities and experimental practices. In Assessment 2, you will make use of these skills to develop a proposal for a creative work as a member of a interdisciplinary group. For Assessment 3, you will reflect on your learning experiences throughout the semester and contextualise them in terms of key technological concepts, creative approaches, and relevant literature.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Creative Lab Activities
You will participate in a range of creative media and technological skill development activities and experimental practices.
Assessment: Creative Work Proposal
Working as a member of a collaborative and interdisciplinary group you will develop a proposal for a creative work that utilises creative technologies.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Critical Reflection
You will reflect on your Creative Lab experiences and contextualise them in terms of key technological concepts, creative approaches, and relevant literature.
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
All students are requested to visit and review the Health and Safety information on the HiQ web pages (CIESJ Tier 1 HSE requirement).
This unit also requires a Tier 2 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio. Some students may be required to complete a Tier 3 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is a hands on induction on specific machinery.
Resources
Some resource materials for this unit will be supplied on Canvas and via Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
For CIESJ Tiers 2 and 3 Health and Safety requirements, you will be instructed on safe procedures and the required safety gear for all studio and workshop processes that are demonstrated. Health and Safety files are readily available for all materials and machinery in all studio areas. Technical supervision is provided for workshops and available on a regular basis during the week. Technical supervision is mandatory in 3D workshop and printmaking studios.
Other required safety inductions will be conducted as required.
Creative practice often explores a wide range of topics and themes, some of which may touch upon sensitive or triggering subjects. While we believe in the power of storytelling and self-expression, we also want to prioritize your emotional well-being. Please be aware that this course may contain content that could potentially trigger or upset individuals. These triggering topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Sexual assault or violence
- Self-harm or suicide
- Substance abuse or addiction
- Eating disorders or body dysmorphia
- Mental health conditions or trauma
- Racism, discrimination, or hate speech
- Religious or political extremism
- Domestic or child abuse
- Loss or grief
- War or conflict
Please be advised that this unit may include the presentation and scholarly analysis of material and subject matters that may be considered confronting, such as certain representations of race, class, gender and violence. QUT counselling support is available should you feel the need to avail yourself of these services.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.CA01 Bachelor of Creative Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate technical proficiency and a knowledge of contemporary digital practices and technologies in one or more disciplines and apply these in creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Critical Reflection - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities
CA02 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting)
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate technical proficiency and a knowledge of contemporary digital practices and technologies in one or more disciplines and apply these in creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Critical Reflection - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KYB120 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinators: | Thomas Studley | thomas.studley@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This foundational unit introduces you to a range of creative technologies and digital literacies that will inform your creative arts practice. You will engage in creative workshops with an emphasis on curiosity and openness, developing skills you will build on as you progress through your studies. You will also engage in a tutorial series that will consolidate your workshop experiences through critical discussion, debate and analysis that situate your experiences within broader theoretical concepts.
This unit emphasises creative risk tasking and experimentation to help you develop a speculative arts practice and encourages active and enquiring participation.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an introductory understanding of some key concepts and approaches underpinning how creative technologies inform and innovate in creative practice.
- Produce and apply introductory knowledge of a range of creative technologies as experiments in a workshop setting.
- Identify and appraise the processes and outcomes undertaken within the workshop environment contextualised as a scholarly manner.
- Engage in an ethical and professional manner reflective of an inclusive learning environment.
Content
This foundational unit introduces you to a range of creative technologies and digital literacies that will inform your creative arts practice. The learning approach emphasises experimentation and encourages active and enquiring participation.
Learning Approaches
Tutorials, workshops, online resources, readings
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback on learning will be provided through in-class activities facilitated by your workshop leaders, as well as in peer-to-peer class discussion in workshops and tutorials. You will receive summative and formative feedback through your formal assessment tasks.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment for this unit involves both formal and informal components, and group and individual work.
Assessment 1 is based on your engagement with a range of creative media and technological skill development activities and experimental practices. In Assessment 2, you will make use of these skills to develop a proposal for a creative work as a member of a interdisciplinary group. For Assessment 3, you will reflect on your learning experiences throughout the semester and contextualise them in terms of key technological concepts, creative approaches, and relevant literature.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Creative Lab Activities
You will participate in a range of creative media and technological skill development activities and experimental practices.
Assessment: Creative Work Proposal
Working as a member of a collaborative and interdisciplinary group you will develop a proposal for a creative work that utilises creative technologies.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Critical Reflection
You will reflect on your Creative Lab experiences and contextualise them in terms of key technological concepts, creative approaches, and relevant literature.
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
All students are requested to visit and review the Health and Safety information on the HiQ web pages (CIESJ Tier 1 HSE requirement).
This unit also requires a Tier 2 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio. Some students may be required to complete a Tier 3 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is a hands on induction on specific machinery.
Resources
Some resource materials for this unit will be supplied on Canvas and via Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
For CIESJ Tiers 2 and 3 Health and Safety requirements, you will be instructed on safe procedures and the required safety gear for all studio and workshop processes that are demonstrated. Health and Safety files are readily available for all materials and machinery in all studio areas. Technical supervision is provided for workshops and available on a regular basis during the week. Technical supervision is mandatory in 3D workshop and printmaking studios.
Other required safety inductions will be conducted as required.
Creative practice often explores a wide range of topics and themes, some of which may touch upon sensitive or triggering subjects. While we believe in the power of storytelling and self-expression, we also want to prioritize your emotional well-being. Please be aware that this course may contain content that could potentially trigger or upset individuals. These triggering topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Sexual assault or violence
- Self-harm or suicide
- Substance abuse or addiction
- Eating disorders or body dysmorphia
- Mental health conditions or trauma
- Racism, discrimination, or hate speech
- Religious or political extremism
- Domestic or child abuse
- Loss or grief
- War or conflict
Please be advised that this unit may include the presentation and scholarly analysis of material and subject matters that may be considered confronting, such as certain representations of race, class, gender and violence. QUT counselling support is available should you feel the need to avail yourself of these services.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.CA01 Bachelor of Creative Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate technical proficiency and a knowledge of contemporary digital practices and technologies in one or more disciplines and apply these in creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Critical Reflection - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities
CA02 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting)
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate technical proficiency and a knowledge of contemporary digital practices and technologies in one or more disciplines and apply these in creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO4, Creative Lab Activities - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Creative Work Proposal, Critical Reflection - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO3, Critical Reflection - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities, Critical Reflection - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Creative Lab Activities