Innovation Design Studio 2
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 48 Hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Reflect on the relationship between theory and practice of design innovation.
2. Apply design thinking principles, processes and methods to a real-life project.
3. Devise meaningful and creative ways to re-frame a given problem.
4. Create a scenario and vision of the future for a given problem, and design appropriate tangible solution concepts.
5. Apply storytelling techniques to explain and argue proposed solutions to a problem.
6. Work effectively in teams.
Courses with unit
CM-INNDES Innovation and Design Co-major
BB-LAWDID Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Innovation and Design
BB-ENGID Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) / Bachelor of Innovation and Design
Unit 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 | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact Tutorial (studio) -2hr x 2
|
6 |
|
36 |
| Online Contact (Only for activities where there is synchronous contact with students eg online seminar, Blackboard Collaborate)
| n/a | - | - |
| Specified Learning Activities Including: 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 Reflection & analysis | Individual | 30% | 1, 2 |
| Group Project: design thinking process, document and presentation - problem re-framing - Phase 1 | Group | 30% | 2, 3, 6 |
| Group Project: design thinking process, document and presentation – visioning and storytelling - Phase 2 | Group | 40% | 2, 4, 5, 6 |
General skills outcomes
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
Content
• Design innovation process, methods and tools.
• Human-centred research: data collection methods, analysis, and synthesis.
• Primary and secondary research for design innovation.
• Basic foresight innovation tools.
• On deconstructing and re-defining a problem, and articulating a design innovation vision.
• Quickly defining, creating, testing and evaluating low-resolution prototypes for empathy building, concept evolution and discovery.
• Verbal and visual communication tools to articulate analysis and synthesis results, insights, ideas and concept proposals.
• Storytelling to articulate ideas and design innovation outcomes, their value proposition, and the rationale behind them.
• Methods and tools for effective team communication and collaboration.
Study resources
- Reading materials.