DAB 810 Scott Constable: August 2011

Assessment Criteria

Vision for Australian Capital
1. Capital Strategy (25%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
  - Your chosen strategy (flexible, mobile, distributed or virtual) was well investigated.
  - Your idea creatively identified problems and issues associated with ways capital city / parliament worked today in Australia and a speculation was made to suggest your idea could lead to an innovative solution.
  - You summarised your investigation well and communicated all necessary information clearly and creatively with images and diagrams in your panel.
  - Your blog communicated your idea development well.
  Outcome: one A2 (landscape) panel prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
2. Capital Infrastructure and Presence (25%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
  - Your investigation to identify how your strategy could make use of the existing and/or new infrastructural support was good, unique and innovative.
  - You made a good effort to identify how your chosen strategy could have its own unique presence and identity for people to identify that it constituted Australian Capital.
  - You summarised your investigation well and communicated all necessary Information clearly and creatively with images and diagrams in your panel.
  - Your blog communicated your idea development well.
  Outcome: one A2 (landscape) panel prepared by team and Blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
Architectural Investigation
1. Architectural Types & Purposes (20%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
  - Based on your investigation of Australian Capital Vision, you came up with an innovative suggestion to (partially) replace current Australian Parliament.
  - Excellent investigation and speculation are made to propose a range of services that your architectural entity is to provide.
  - You summarised your investigation well and communicated all necessary Information clearly and creatively with images and diagrams in your panel.
  - Your blog communicated your idea development well.
  Outcome: one A3 (portrait) panel prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
2. Architectural Presence & Identity (20%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
  - You conducted a unique and creative investigation into how your architectural entitiy can be identified and perceived as the capital of Australia by residents and visitors.
  - You summarised your investigation well and communicated all necessary Information clearly and creatively with images and diagrams in your panel.
  - Your blog communicates your idea development well.
  Outcome: one A3 (portrait) panel prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual ideas.
3. Written Project Statement (10%) : The panel presented and blog posted satisfies the following descriptions.
  - The statement was creative and imaginative.
  - The statement was well written.
  - Ideas leading to the statement was documented well in your blog.
  Outcome: one A4 (portrait) sheet with up to 400 words text prepared by team and blog posts documenting development of individual thoughts.

Week 2 A1

Investigation of flexible as a strategy.
Identify problems and issue associated with the way Canberra works as a capital city for Australia.
Identify how a flexible strategy could lead to a solution for this problem.
Use images and diagrams to illustrate this point.

Week 3 A1

Identify how a flexible solution can take advantage of the existing or new physical infrastructure in and around parliament house.

Week 4 A3

Based on these two previous weeks, propose how to either partially or fully replace an existing part of parliament.
Identify how existing or new infrastructure services could help achieve this.

Week 5 A3

Show how the strategy is identified by people as being representative of Australia’s modern cultural consciousness.

Statement

A creative and imaginative 400 word statement explaining how you reached your design brief and the thoughts and processes behind it.

What Parliament can do for you

the activities and procedures of the House;
the passage of legislation through both Houses;
lodging petitions;
the Chamber Galleries and making a booking to observe Question Time;
parliamentary committees and their inquiries;
participation in a parliamentary committee inquiry including advice on making a submission to an inquiry;
where parliamentary committee public hearings are being held;
access to documents, including committee reports, tabled in the Parliament;
community outreach initiatives such as seminars, displays and exhibitions;
parliamentary education activities including school visits;
contacting your local Member;
inter-parliamentary visits and conferences;
gaining access, including for the purposes of filming and photography, to the Parliament building and parliamentary precincts and the Chamber galleries; and
the guidelines for demonstrations in the parliamentary precincts.