Category: FDS
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In January 2023 I was lucky enough to be chosen to participate in a study tour one of my favourite places in the world, Japan. The tour was structured with daily organised activities, but all accommodation, food, travel, and activities in your free time were self-guided. Figuring out how to survive on my own in…
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My 15-day study tour was undertaken with a class of Architecture students to look at the dwelling in Japan’s cities with a clear binary logic of the public, private and in-between spaces. With total immersion into the experience of the Japanese Urban condition. We studied distinct dwelling conditions and types and the critical micro studies…
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The name ‘Florence’ has Latin roots, meaning to blossom or to flower and certainly, Florence is a flourishing city. My brief two-week stay gave me a taste of what this unique place has to offer, and I think I would need to spend another six months more before I could truly say I’ve seen it…
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こんにちは！Hello, I’m Asa, and I’m studying Product Design & International Studies at UTS. I’m currently 4 weeks into global exchange at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan! Getting here was quite the journey, as I was originally an ICS student set to go on exchange back in 2021 so it’s really exciting to finally be studying…
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It has now been 4 months since I have arrived in Hong Kong and started my exchange at City University of Hong Kong and now that the semester is over and my stay is coming to an end, I can’t help but feel down about leaving. Upon first arriving at Hong Kong, I must admit…
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Do you believe that a society can exist with perfect human unity? Well, I’ve just returned from a community founded on this intention. My month in India was one of the most challenging of my life and one of the most transformative. The Matrimandir (translated as Mother Temple) is the golden temple in the heart…
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The Auroville Global studio was an incredible and memorable experience that I will never forget. Six weeks in an eco-village in the south of India was a unique opportunity to immerse myself in a new culture. We spent time speaking with Aurovillians about the lifestyle and the inner workings of the complex system that is…
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Last summer I was extremely fortunate to have been apart of the Faculty-Led Global Short Program: DAB Global Studio (Spain) – Hydro-eco-urban: Barcelona Study Tour, whereby I was one of 19 students who were able to not only learn about our industry itself but the ways in which practices in Barcelona and Girona went about…
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It is difficult to summarise a three-week experience into a few short words in a blog post. This experience has by far been the best challenge, learning opportunity and period I have had the privilege to explore. I have been given so many opportunities to take my practise outside the confines of a university lecture…
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Overall, my Global Exchange was truly a sublime and fascinating experience which is undoubtedly due to how welcoming, friendly, fun and hard working my fellow peers and the people of Bali are. I am extremely grateful for the numerous friends I made and will certainly cherish these memories I have. Last summer, I was extremely…
