Innovation Design Studio 1
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 48 Hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Prerequisites
OR
DDD10002 Methods of Investigation
Aims and objectives
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Navigate the design innovation process, using a range of methods and tools
2. Use qualitative research methods to collect, synthesize and analyse data from human-centred research
3. Reframe a given problem through human-centred research
4. Define a design innovation vision and create concepts coherent with it
5. Verbally and visually communicate / articulate design visions and concepts, and their rationale
6. Apply design innovation principles
Courses with unit
This unit will be offered for the final time Semester 2, 2022Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
This unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including:
| Type (On-campus) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact Lecture Studio | 1 3 | 12 12 | 12 36 |
| Online Contact | N/A | ||
| Specified Learning Activities Group work, readings | 6 | 13 | 78 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities Individual reports preparation | 4 | 6 | 24 |
| TOTAL | 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Individual assignments (2)* | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 5 |
| Group project process, document and presentation 1 | Group | 30% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Group project process, document and presentation 2 | Group | 30% | 4, 5, 6 |
*Pre-census assessment comprises the first reflective journal (Stage 1) with feedback in Week 4.
General skills outcomes
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
Content
• Primary and secondary research on state-of-the-art developments in fields related to the context of a given problem.
• Real-life human-centred research: ethics, data collection methods, analysis, and synthesis.
• Re-definition of a given problem as a result of human-centred research and prototyping.
• Defining, creating, testing and evaluating prototypes for empathy building, concept evolution, and discovery.
• Introduction to visual thinking tools to articulate analysis and synthesis results, insights, ideas and concept proposals.
Study resources
- Reading materials.