There are two individual tasks and a series of collective activities that need to be done to complete the course. (See Handbook for assessment policy)
Task One: “UBIQUITOUS”
This project requires you to apply methods learned in tutorials to research, write and present a historical narrative that tells a story about the social significance of an artefact in your family. You will need to interview parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts etc to find an object that carries significant memories of how everyday life is / was lived and construct a detailed story about the relationship that that artefact has had in your family. You will need to take and find photos, dig through sheds and cupboards and uncover the meanings that that object carries.
1500 words with photos in format proscribed.
DUE: 13 April (in class)
40 % of overall grading
Task Two: “INGENIOUS”
This project requires you to find an undocumented artefact in Museums Victoria Moreland Annexe and research and prepare a statement of significance as a case study of Australian domestic technologies. The artefact needs to be something that you see as being ‘ingenious’ in the ways in which it has impacted the how people lived and worked, and how it influenced the development of new technologies and designs. You will need to work form the artefact ‘out’ to build a detailed understanding of the context in which it was active to include the political, social, economic, and technological. This will need to be done to academic standards with correct referencing and attribution of images, text and ideas.
1500 words with photos in format proscribed.
DUE: 18 May (in class)
40 % of overall grading
