RE-PRESENTING PLACE | eportfolio

Re-presenting Place / Portfolio

Re-presenting Place is an elective module which introduces urban planning students to methods for observing, interpreting and representing the urban environment.

Through various lenses of urban design, our surroundings can be understood and expressed within a framework of four methods of professional practice: observation and engagement, analysis and synthesis, urban design tools, and representation through publication.

The morphology of the city and the interrelationship of built form, circulation networks, open space and natural systems will be the primary subject of this course.

Research Proposal / 01a

For Project 1a, we are required to draft a research proposal to structure and develop our research ideas. As a respond to the first lecture - An Introduction to Re-presenting Place, the proposal shall include the following items:

1. Methodology

2. Processes

3. Parameter Survey

The research proposal must include justification on the proposed methodology, processes and parameter surveys, and to be accompanied with example of studies and literature reviews on relevant topic of studies.

Interpretation and Analysis / 02

From the approved research proposal and research structure, we are now required to expand our research.

Research Structure - Content Development / 01b

From the approved research proposal, we are then assigned a site to conduct thorough research. The place that we are to represent throughout the module is Petaling Street.

For this project, students are required to systematically develop the content of our research. The content must include, but not limited to, the following items:

Title
Research Background (Site, issues, potentials, etc.)
Main Research Question (What are your responses towards the site’s issues and potentials, etc.)
Objectives (2-3) (What do you want to achieve?)
Significance (Why are you doing this and what are the contributions expected from this research?)
Methods and expected outcomes (How are you doing? What is your expected outcome?)

We are tasked to develop detail contents of it in the form of:

Photographic inventory
Drawings and sketches
Collages, diagrams or other graphical representations
Other visual communication methods

This part of the research process require us to creatively and innovatively interpret and analyze issues and potentials of the site and how strategic methods of representing that particular place will assist in better understanding the place’s zeitgeist, context and genius loci within specific intention of research and studies.

Publication / 03

The final project of Re-presenting Place in fact, is the most exciting one as we are compiling everything that we have done throughout the module into a book.

Our research content and outputs will be communicated through publication.

Edited content will be systematically organized individually, within a collective format that will lead to a book publication.

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