Undergraduate Course: Design Identities: Roles and Ecologies (DESI10147)
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 | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | On this course you will actively explore the roles played within a design organisation, and the ways a design organisation interacts with others to form an ecology of knowledge and production.
You will be supported to develop a new form of creative research practice, using visual methods drawn from Service Design to build a small case study on a design organisation or project of your choice. This will complement the discipline-specific practices you have been building so far.
The course supports the Year 3 ¿externality¿ theme not only through this content, but through the negotiated timing of dissertation style tutorials, which you will organise as a small team or individually with your tutor. |
| Course description |
This course is delivered through online distance learning. You will have regular points of online contact with your tutor, including written feedback on blog or similar online work. Teaching is through a combination of recorded/live lectures, online seminars/tutorials and virtual studio activities.
You will learn to combine observational and desk research methods in a case study approach, and to use visual communication tools to explore and describe the organisation or movement you are studying. Visual communication is increasingly used as part of strategic ¿design thinking¿ across different sectors and is a valuable skill for graduates. Design consultancies often use tools like personas and the business model canvas to visualise intangible values and experiences to support these processes.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | This course does not require additional costs to be met by students. |
| Additional Costs | This course does not require additional costs to be met by students. |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply a case study approach to research.
- Develop visual methods to support investigation and communication in a short research project.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of roles within a design organisation or movement.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concept of design knowledge and production ecologies.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | online distance learning,design thinking,roles,ecologies |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sarah Kettley
Tel: (0131 6)51 5836
Email: Sarah.Kettley@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Hollie Gilligan
Tel:
Email: hgilliga@ed.ac.uk |
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