DGN5203 · Design for culture and heritage

Overview

In this unit you will collaborate on design projects specific to the domain of culture and heritage. Using design skills, processes and technologies, you will be challenged to prototype, visualise and present innovative design solutions that relate to the preservation and promotion of culture and heritage. You will understand the value of co-creation and partnership as being vital to the outcome of design activities that showcase both cultural identity and historical legacy. The interdisciplinary and holistic approach of this unit includes, but is not limited to, exhibition/museum design, digital media design, interaction design, communication design, service and product design.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Evaluate and communicate the potential of design as a means for preserving and promoting culture and heritage;
2. Propose and present ethical and responsible design concepts specific to culture and heritage;
3. Understand the significance of collaboration as part of inter-disciplinary teamwork in co-creating complex design solutions for communicating and promoting culture and heritage;
4. Demonstrate ethnographic research methods as part of the design process for culture and heritage productions;
5. Demonstrate conceptualising, visualising and prototyping skills for complex design solutions in the area of culture and heritage;
6. Critically analyse and evaluate cultural/heritage design productions or prototypes as a response to a specific brief.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.