MDC5230 · Collaborative design studio 2

Overview

This unit further develops your design skills within a collaborative environment. You will engage in projects of growing complexity that have multiple approaches and potential outcomes. You will build upon your prior experience of the design process to discover, define, create and demonstrate your design ability in a interdisciplinary way. You will develop designs to a stage that allows reflective critical analysis. You will be expected to demonstrate a strong capability to resolve and defend your designs. You will be encouraged to engage with topics that are drawn from the research agenda of the Faculty and Department of Design. This enables the integration of staff research with the educational aspirations of the unit. You are therefore exposed to an advanced knowledge in particular areas, and areas in which to engage your own growing skill sets.

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Contribute to a collaborative design intervention or solution that addresses issues of growing complexity;
2. Manage and develop collaborative approaches to solving design problems;
3. Formulate design strategies and specifications for outcomes in a collaborative environment;
4. Articulate the design production to a sophisticated level of understanding and skill;
5. Understand and evaluate the efficacy of your own design concepts;
6. Demonstrate an ability to communicate and defend your design approach, methodologies and solutions;
7. Devise solutions to design problems that respond to advances in knowledge within the discipline.

Workload

24 hours per week including 6 contact hours plus 18 hours of independent study.

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