DFM Practice: Innovation & Interdisciplinary Collaboration 2
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 per semester
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Prerequisites
Anti Requisite
Aims and objectives
This unit aims to provide opportunity for student teams to explore research problems provided by external partners, under the supervision of academic staff. Interdisciplinary collaboration will be a vehicle to develop design outcomes using various research methods and design innovation processes. Students are expected to operate with high levels of self-direction, personal responsibility and commitment to inclusive teamwork philosophies.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Rationalise theoretical concepts and research methods relevant to understand, re-frame and inform creative problem solving for a complex problem.
2. Combine prototyping techniques to test design solutions that balance technical, human and economic considerations.
3. Effectively contribute to an innovation culture through inclusive decision making, open mind-set and empathetic approaches to collaboration activities.
4. Produce design proposals and articulate their value in relation to a research problem.
5. Justify project outcomes considering application context.
6. Implement appropriate project management and communication tools for collaboration.
7. Engage stakeholder management techniques.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Rationalise theoretical concepts and research methods relevant to understand, re-frame and inform creative problem solving for a complex problem.
2. Combine prototyping techniques to test design solutions that balance technical, human and economic considerations.
3. Effectively contribute to an innovation culture through inclusive decision making, open mind-set and empathetic approaches to collaboration activities.
4. Produce design proposals and articulate their value in relation to a research problem.
5. Justify project outcomes considering application context.
6. Implement appropriate project management and communication tools for collaboration.
7. Engage stakeholder management techniques.
Courses with unit
BH-DES Bachelor of Design (Honours)
BH-DESIND1 Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (Honours)
BH-DESINA Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture) (Honours)
BH-DESCMN2 Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) (Honours)
BH-DESIND1 Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (Honours)
BH-DESINA Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture) (Honours)
BH-DESCMN2 Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) (Honours)
This unit will be offered for the final time Semester 2 2020
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
This Unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including:
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact Design Studio
| 3 | 12 | 36 |
| Online Contact
| n/a |
|
|
| Specified Learning Activities Readings Group work meetings
|
2 3 |
12 12 |
24 36 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities (includes independent study, assignment preparation, revision) | Recommended |
| 54 |
| TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Project Documentation & Prototypes | Group | 50% | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
| Project Presentation | Group | 20% | 4, 5, 7 |
| Collaboration practice reflection | Individual | 30% | 3, 6 |
General skills outcomes
During this unit students will receive feedback on the following key generic skills:
• Teamwork Skills
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
• Teamwork Skills
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
Content
May include:
- Innovation culture, low hierarchy, mind-set and language
- Prototyping techniques for creative problem solving
- Divergent and convergent thinking
- Interdisciplinary teamwork and self-awareness
- Innovation tools and design thinking processes
- Co-creation, empathy and inclusive collaboration approaches
- Iterative design development and user testing processes
- Low hierarchy and project management practices
- Value proposition and business model canvas tools
- Ethical and responsible conduct
- Design research strategies
- Professional project documentation and presentation techniques
- Stakeholder management techniques
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials will be made available in the Unit Outline.