DFM: Global Innovation & Interdisciplinary Collaboration 2

DDD40004 25 Credit Points Hawthorn

Duration

  • One semester

Contact hours

  • 72 hours per semester

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.

Aims and objectives

This unit provides student teams with an opportunity to define and articulate an innovative design solution developed in a previous Design Factory Melbourne project. Students are expected to engage in projects with high levels of self-direction, personal responsibility and commitment to inclusive teamwork philosophies.


Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Justify research methods to develop design outcomes that address a complex problem in a global context.
2. Evaluate relevant prototyping innovation techniques, to refine and resolve design solutions towards implementation.
3. Support an innovation culture through inclusive decision making, open mind-set and empathetic approaches to collaboration activities across different cultures.
4. Develop holistic design proposals that create value by integrating technical, human and economic considerations.
5. Articulate project outcomes to effectively communicate value and design intent to relevant stakeholders.
6. Choose appropriate project management and communication tools for collaboration involving global partnerships.
7. Apply stakeholder management techniques to global collaboration partnerships.

Courses with unit

Prior to 2018 this unit was titled Swinburne Design Factory Project (Design) 2
 
This unit will be offered for the final time in 2021