Undergraduate Course: Design Innovation 2 (EDUA10146)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This half course is intended to allow the student to showcase all of their abilities in communicating and demonstrating expertise in the field of design and technological activities. It will allow the student to understand their own level of competence and areas of subject strengths and expertise prior to embarking upon careers in Design and Technology Education. The work should demonstrate and communicate the student's learning accomplished in Design and Technology over years 1-3.
The focus is on professional standards and expectations in the field of Design and Technology. They will be required to engage in design activity for an authentic context in response to the requirements of a briefing from a client. They will be expected to arrive at an innovative, feasible and marketable solution.
Students will require the confidence to present their solution to an invited and expert audience. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the student will be able to:
1. Explore a niche or opportunity in response to design challenge introduced by a client.
2. Analyse client language and interrogate for meaning to arrive at a mutually negotiated brief.
3. Develop a suitable design proposal from initial meeting with a client to the presentation of the proposed design solution, for production or investment.
4. Develop working relationships with professional, commercial or industrial partners
5. Develop attitudes and strategies for entrepreneurial activity in school practice or business
6. Understand issues for entrepreneurs and innovators in a commercial market, including IPR issues and procedures.
7. Present to a professional informed audience through carefully selected methods.
8. Apply innovative and creative thinking to a design brief/scenario and arrive at an appropriate well informed justifiable synthesised solution. |
Assessment Information
There will be five forms of assessment used i.e.
1. In depth study and analysis of the niche, problem, opportunity.
2. Design and production of a creative, feasible and marketable solution.
3. Integration of entrepreneurial activities and strategies for project and time management
4. Utilisation of commercial, industrial or business link partnership
5. Presentation - visual and oral, to external client and agencies. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Baxter, M. (1996) Product Design Chapman and Hall
Berman, D. B. (2009) Do Good Design: How Designers can Change the World Peachpitt Press
Capewell, I & Hellier, B (2010) Sustainability Matters in Design and Technology. Practical Action Publishing
Ehrenfeld, J. R (2008) Sustainability by Design - A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Consumer Culture. Yale University.
Green, W & Jordan, P. (eds) (2002) Pleasure with products: beyond usability CRC Press
Jones, C (1980) Design Methods: seeds of human futures (2nd Edition) Wiley
Kelly, T. (2001) The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO Doubleday
Lawson, B. (2004) How designers Think: demystyifying the design process (and various other editions) Architechtural Press
Lidwell, W. Holden, K, Butler J (2003) Universal Principles of Design Rockport Publishers Inc.
Mattus, M. (2008) Beyond Trend: How to Innovate in an Over-Designed World How Design Books.
Pheasant, S. (1996) Bodyspace: Anthropometry, Ergonomics and the Design of Work Taylor Francis |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords |
Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Ms Susan Mclaren
Tel: (0131 6)50 2262
Email: Susan.McLaren@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Julie Urquhart
Tel: (0131 6)51 6606
Email: julie.urquhart@ed.ac.uk |
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