Undergraduate Course: Product Design: New Making (DESI10056)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course explores the emerging paradigm of craftspeople, makers, hackers and designers who use digital making and fabrication techniques to create, design and distribute their work. |
| Course description |
This course will introduce students to current discussions related to distributed and digital fabrication methods. These techniques push the boundaries of conventional craft, design, and production models. Additionally, the course aims to enhance student's proficiency in utilizing digital tools through relevant software. Practical exercises will involve creating designed artifacts or systems that will allow students to explore diverse making practices.
Students are expected to produce design responses informed through an iterative making and researching process that is supported by a combination of talks, reflective discussions and practical workshops.
Through a series of talks, skill-based workshops and projects, the course will look at craft values and traditional making processes in the light of novel forms of engagement with materials, e.g. through digital making techniques and fabrication technologies. The course will expose students to contemporary debates that on the one hand promote innovative designs through parametric modelling and distributed digital production models, and on the other challenge the value of craft practice and production. Students will develop skills in the manipulation of digital forms through relevant software applications, conceptual understanding of current digital craft debates and the production of forms through advanced making and fabrication techniques.
Following close guidance through weekly skills exercises and workshops, students will develop personal responses to the themes within the lectures and through the skills that they have learnt. Seminars and tutorials will be held weekly and a short series of lectures will be given.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | If this course is Core to your programme, you will automatically be enrolled. For all other students, including Design students, the course is open on a first come, first served basis until the course is full. This course may have limited availability for non-Design students. Please contact the Course Organiser if you wish to enrol. |
| Additional Costs | Research and material costs according to student designs. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Only available to visiting students in the Design School
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 25 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2024 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 6,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 18,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 8,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 4,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
159 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Feedback |
Formative Feedback
Feedback is regularly communicated verbally through group and individual meetings, workshops, and seminars where work and ideas are discussed with both peers and course tutor(s).
Summative Feedback:
The summative feedback for component 1 will feed directly into components 2 & 3.
Summative written feedback will be provided by course tutor(s) via Learn as per University regulations. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of current discussions related to digital fabrication techniques that push the boundaries of traditional craft, design, and production models.
- Choose and apply a diverse range of experimental techniques, practices, and materials within the subject of New Making.
- Apply knowledge and a sensibility toward an appropriate mix of traditional making processes and new manufacturing methods within specific social and material contexts.
- Critically reflect, analyse and evaluate issues that are at the forefront of Product Design to compose a constructed personal narrative with designed artefacts.
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Reading List
Charney, Daniel (2011) Power of Making: The Case for Making and Skills. V&A Publishing.
Johnston, Laura (2015) Digital Handmade: Craftsmanship and the New Industrial Revolution, Thames and Hudson Ltd.
Labaco, Ron (2013) Out of Hand: Materialising the Postdigital. Black Dog Publishing.
Ratto, Matt (2011) Critical making: Conceptual and material studies in technology and social life, The Information Society, 27(4).
Shillito, A. Marie (2013) Digital crafts: industrial technologies for applied artists and designer makers, London: Bloomsbury.
Warnier, Claire, Verbruggen, Dries, Ehmann, Sven, and Klanten, Robert Eds. (2014) Printing things: visions and essentials for 3D printing, Gestalten.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students in this course will attain the following graduate attributes, personal and professional skills:
Research and enquiry; Students will cultivate the skill to recognize and innovatively address challenges, as well as to devise or refine processes for solving them within the context of product design. By demonstrating informed reverence for the principles, methodologies, norms, values, and limitations of their field(s), and by critically examining these through the lens of product design, they will acquire the ability to actively seek fresh learning opportunities.
Personal and intellectual autonomy; Students will develop the skill to assess ideas, evidence, and experiences critically, approaching them with an open-minded and rational outlook. They will embrace novel concepts, alternative methods, and diverse perspectives within the context of their discipline and the realm of Design, particularly in the context of product design.
Communication; Students will develop the ability to use communication as a tool for collaborating and relating to others. Be able to use effective communication to articulate their skills as identified through self-reflection.
Personal Effectiveness:
Students will develop the ability to change and be responsive to the situations and environments in which they operate. They could flexibly transfer their knowledge, learning, skills and abilities from one context to another. They could work effectively with others, capitalising on their different thinking, experience and skills. |
| Keywords | Manufacturing,Assembly,Design |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Kee Ryong Choi
Tel: (0131 6)51 5816
Email: kchoi@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Barbara Bianchi
Tel: (0131 6)51 5736
Email: barbara.bianchi@ed.ac.uk |
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