Postgraduate Course: MFA2 Product Design -- Incubator (DESI11095)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is for students embarking on an individual-led design project during the second year of their MFA in Product Design. |
| Course description |
The course will help you propose, plan and prepare to develop a significant body of work driven by design practices addressing contemporary product design themes in a practice led environment.
The course is prepares you for your final semester dissertation where you will reveal and present high quality exhibition ready prototypes at the ECA Degree Show, intended to showcase your concept development and manufacturing skills, relevant to your development as an autonomous, practice-led product design professional.
The focus in this course is preparing designers who wish to pursue careers in industry where communication and dissemination of knowledge often takes different formats to written text and reports. The course will help narrow appropriate research topics into a clear, questioning and critical statements which will be addressed and disseminated in Sem2 through words, images and particularly exhibition ready prototypes.
The course will allow you to continue to develop and deepen the skills you acquired in your previous year of study in Product Design, enabling you an opportunity to establish your own voice through your choice of research direction, appropriate product pathways and ultimately the structure of your final graduation exhibition dissertation.
The course is primarily seminar and tutorial based; working closely with key staff from the School of Design in order to help you work to your best advantage.
By the end of this course, you will have identified your final dissertation direction; outlined your plan for development of exhibition prototypes; established a timeline for studio working and delivery; and provided a synopsis of your dissertation project in both written and visual formats.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 4,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 16,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment Component 1 - 30%
A formal design brief outlining intended product design development opportunities based on analytical research findings in an appropriate domain of interest.
Assessment Component 2 - 20%
Presentation outlining in visual detail the precedent artifacts and contexts which have led to the insights for future product developments in your personal project
Assessment Component 3 - 50%
Portfolio submission outlining proposed plan of action for final design approach, including generative and iterative product sketches, prototypes and models highlighting form, utility, performance, etc. |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback is regularly communicated through the course. This takes a number forms, including verbally through group and individual meetings where work and ideas are discussed with both peers and tutor.
Students will submit a relevant selection of work relating to summative Assessment Component 1 for written formative feedback regarding their work during the midpoint of the course; full details for dates and submission requirements for feedback are outlined in the course handbook. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- EXPLORE: Demonstrate independent initiative, substantial autonomy and self-critical generation of innovative product design proposals and futures
- DEVELOP: Develop a critical and contextualised relationship between creative practice and theory reflecting a significant understanding of the product design discipline from a practice-led perspective
- SYNTHESISE: Evaluate and consolidate research within the production of realised projects with a critical understanding of the contexts of the product design discipline
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Have a personal vision and goals and be able to work towards these in a sustainable way
Be able to exercise critical judgment in creating new understanding
Be able to identify, define and analyse problems and identify or create processes to solve them
Seek and value open feedback to inform genuine self-awareness
Be able to use collaboration and debate effectively to test, modify and strengthen their own views
Understand social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilitie |
| Keywords | personal project,concept development,making,prototyping,product design development |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Arno Verhoeven
Tel: (0131 6)51 5808
Email: a.verhoeven@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Mathieu Donner
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740
Email: Mathieu.Donner@ed.ac.uk |
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