Innovation Design Studio 1
48 Hours
One Semester or equivalent
Overview
This unit introduces students to the practice of design innovation. Working on a project, students learn how to apply design thinking tools and methods throughout the different stages of the design-led innovation process. This unit develops skills and understanding of design research, human-centeredness, prototyping, teamwork and visual thinking.
Requisites
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Navigate the design innovation process, using a range of methods and tools
- Use qualitative research methods to collect, synthesize and analyse data from human-centred research
- Reframe a given problem through human-centred research
- Define a design innovation vision and create concepts coherent with it
- Verbally and visually communicate / articulate design visions and concepts, and their rationale
- Apply design innovation principles
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Studio | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Various | 6.00 | 13 week | 78 |
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 4.00 | 6 weeks | 24 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Assignment | Individual | 40% | 1,2,5 |
Project Presentation | Group | 30% | 1,2,3,4 |
Project Presentation | Group | 30% | 4,5,6 |
Content
- Design innovation processes.
- Primary and secondary research on state-of-the-art developments in fields related to the context of a given problem.
- Real-life human-centred research: ethics, data collection methods, analysis, and synthesis.
- Re-definition of a given problem as a result of human-centred research and prototyping.
- Defining, creating, testing and evaluating prototypes for empathy building, concept evolution, and discovery.
- Introduction to visual thinking tools to articulate analysis and synthesis results, insights, ideas and concept proposals.
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Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.