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Undergraduate Course: Design Research 4 (Product Design) (DESI10029)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryThis course is only available to students in the School of Design.

Indicative course content
This course enables students to develop a personal, integrated, critical and reflective design approach appropriate to their chosen discipline. Students work on self-selected and generated projects within a studio environment.

Aims of course
1 develop and consolidate personal creative methods, techniques and approaches
2 explore how practitioners generate and justify personal project briefs
3 develop and consolidate personal approaches to materials and processes

Mode of delivery
Studio-Based Project Work, Group Crits, Individual and Group Mentoring, Project Review
Course description As Summary
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: ( Design Externality 3 Major (Semester 1) - Product Design (DESI09072) OR Design Externality 3 Minor (Semester 1) - Product Design (DESI09051) OR Design Externality 3 Work-Based Placement (Semester 1) - Product Design (DESI09050)) AND ( Design Externality 3 Major (Semester 2) - Product Design (DESI09091) OR Design Externality 3 Minor (Semester 2) - Product Design (DESI09036) OR Design Externality 3 Work-Based Placement (Semester 2) - Product Design (DESI09085))
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs course materials and study trips
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. INVESTIGATE: use a variety of practical and theoretical methods to demonstrate a sustained and rigorous investigation of personal research themes
  2. CHALLENGE: analyse issues arising from the research and challenge established precepts and assumptions
  3. PLAN: demonstrate a sense of purpose in the development of lines of research inquiry
Reading List
DESI10029 Design Research 4¿ Product Design
- Hanington, B. & Martin, B. Universal Methods of Design:
100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop
Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions. Rockport
(2012)
- Milton, A. & Rodgers, P. Research Methods for Product
Design. Laurence King (2013)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Bettina Nissen
Tel:
Email: bnissen@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Jane Thomson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5713
Email: jane.thomson@ed.ac.uk
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