Master of Landscape Architecture
The Master of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University is concerned with research based on the activity of designing. The program explores Landscape as a medium that exists at all scales; from micro to macro, from garden to city, from political to infrastructural, from social to economical, and that it is specific to site, time, and process. It challenges candidates to engage with the Landscape Discipline as one that can respond to the challenges of a complex rapidly changing world through innovative design at the juncture of the urban and natural environments. Innovative design knowledge is developed in a range of studios informed by history, theory, ecology, and technology. The final year of study – which includes Project A + Project B - is an opportunity for students to define and explore their own research within the studio framework. It is an opportunity for students to investigate something they are passionate about, and in turn, contribute to the theory and practice of landscape architecture. The work presented here is a DRAFT of the Design Research work in progress conducted by the 2011 Master of Landscape Architecture Candidates.