Critical Practices: Futures unit (FSA225)

Hobart, Launceston

Introduction

What does it mean to make work in a world of uncertain futures? We are not the first to ask this. This unit invites you to find your way through the field of creative practices that explore the anxieties, the uncertainties, the opportunities, and potential offered by the future. We will unpick moments of change and transition within a broader context of local, national, and global histories of cultural practices, and to see yourself as an active participant in creating change. Using place-based, visual and performative strategies this unit introduces you to key contemporary, historical, philosophical and cultural debates across several field that dwell on making and meaning in uncertainty and unknowable futures. 

You will take a critical stance in relation to the role of writing, understanding how writing can articulate, define and challenge our thinking about art and its histories. 

You will work individually and collaboratively to explore concepts through making and realising scenarios that attend these ideas. A variety of assessment tasks will bring together reading, writing and making to facilitate the productive links between these modes of creative communication. 

Summary

Unit name	Critical Practices: Futures
Unit code	FSA225
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Arts and Society Creative and Performing Arts
Discipline	Arts
Coordinator	Doctor Toby Juliff
Available as an elective?	Yes
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Intermediate

Availability

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Launceston	Semester 1

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Key Dates

Study Period	Start date	Census date	WW date	End date
Semester 1	22/2/2026	16/3/2026	19/4/2026	13/6/2026

* The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (refer to How do I withdraw from a unit? for more information).

Unit census dates currently displaying for 2026 are indicative and subject to change. Finalised census dates for 2026 will be available from the 1st October 2025. Note census date cutoff is 11.59pm AEST (AEDT during October to March).

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Learning Outcomes

• Locate and express the critical, historical, cultural, and technological contexts relevant to contemporary creative practice.
• Identify and apply creative approaches and research practices across a range of critical and expressive forms
• Construct critical arguments using appropriate forms of writings and making
• Work collaboratively, constructively, and respectfully within group and individual learning contexts.

Fee Information

Field of Education	Commencing Student Contribution 1,3	Grandfathered Student Contribution 1,3	Approved Pathway Course Student Contribution 2,3	Domestic Full Fee 4
100300	$1,192.00	$1,020.00	not applicable	$2,972.00

• Available as a Commonwealth Supported Place
• HECS-HELP is available on this unit, depending on your eligibility³
• FEE-HELP is available on this unit, depending on your eligibility⁴

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Requisites

Prerequisites

25 credit points of any Level 100 Critical Practice in Art Core

Mutual Exclusions

You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:

FSA223

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Weekly on-campus 3hr workshops
Assessment	The problem at hand: aphorism (20%)|Poster Presentation (30%)|Folio (50%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Required readings will be listed in the unit outline prior to the start of classes.

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