MDC5020 · Design studio practice

Overview

The unit provides an opportunity to undertake design projects and to develop design studio practice. You will be required to develop your own personal design philosophy, and consider the ways in which it responds to social needs and its visual and social expression as a preliminary to its development in your major project. The contemporary discourse in design and related theory is actively discussed and debated, and you are encouraged to develop a personal position relative to it. Both your intentions and the results of your work are debated in group discussions and critical sessions. This unit is only available to students enrolled in the double award Master of Industrial Design with Southeast University, China.

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. Practice design to a standard of professional competency; engaging collaboratively and independently in the resolution and communication of design concepts;
2. Relate and critically analyse your design work against contemporary discourse and seek to extend its boundaries;
3. Defend your chosen direction in the project against informed criticism, through the synthesis of complex theories, concepts, and design strategies;
4. Apply advanced cognitive abilities, technical skills, and the practice of cultural inquiry to undertake your project;
5. Organise, develop and plan methodologies, for a project to successfully determine a viable outcome.

Workload

Block mode: 48 studio hours plus 240 hours independent study. On campus: 8 studio hours plus 16 hours of independent study per week or equivalent.

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