Overview

This unit explores creative enterprise as a promising career path for designers, emphasizing design solutions that benefit individuals and society. Students will identify novel business opportunities and develop the strategic and economic knowledge to pursue them.

Students are encouraged to build professional networks, establish industry linkages, and acquire advanced technological skills. Through workshops, seminars, and Work Integrated Learning opportunities, students will develop projects that culminate in a professional design outcome.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  1. Apply entrepreneurial thinking to new design-based opportunities
  2. Create prototypes to generate, explore and develop ideas in conjunction with industry or university partners
  3. Construct documentation that clearly communicates the value and intent of a design solution
  4. Interpret future trends and challenges to deliver a professional quality design outcome
  5. Develop design solutions that are appropriate, responsible and provide value to specific users in response to a project brief

Teaching methods

All applicable locations

Activity Type Activity Total Hours Number of Weeks Hours Per Week Venue Type and Activity Detail
On-campus Studio 36 12 weeks 3  
Specified Activities Various 60 12 weeks 5 Discussion boards, Practice-led enquiry into materials, Technology and form, Technical development, Workshops, Collaborative idea generation, Readings
Unspecified Activities Independent Learning 54 12 weeks 4.5  
Total Hours: 150 Total Hours (per week): 12.5  

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULOs
Final Folio Individual  40% 2,3,5
Pitch Presentations Individual/Group  20% 1,2,3,4
Project Report Individual/Group  40% 1,2,3,4,5

Content

  • Extend strategic and entrepreneurial skills
  • Implement a research-led design approach
  • Generate innovative design outcomes that respond to societal need
  • Align design innovation to a commercial growth strategy
  • Collaborate effectively to build professional networks through active engagement and teamwork
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
  • Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.