ADD303 - Design for Change
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong), Online From 2025: Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Maria Bates |
| Cohort rule: | Nil |
| Prerequisite: | ADD209 or ADD204 plus successful completion of one additional Level 2 ADD, ADT, ADA, ALA or ADV coded unit |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ACG307 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour seminar per week |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week (recordings provided) |
Content
This unit will focus on the requirement of design to act as an agent of change. Design has matured as an industry and designers are required to do more than develop and materialise ideas using contemporary technologies. Design practitioners are now called on to conceptualise experiences and facilitate social, cultural, environmental and economic outcomes.
Students will explore design as an agent of change by researching design activism and design thinking to analyse systemic problems that empower and deliver creative outcomes to complex challenges. Students will be presented with a selection of social problems and will be required to consider ways of combining different design disciplines to address these issues using design as an agent for change; addressing big picture problems in the world and taking a step towards change.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Apply design practices to address challenging and complex world problems | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Consider solutions by evaluating information using critical and analytical thinking | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO3 | Combine design practices and problem solving skills to devise a solution to an identified problem | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO4 | Position your work in a global context recognizing the diversity of communities and cultures | GLO8: Global citizenship |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Investigative research | 40% | Information not yet available | |
| Assessment 2: Presentation | 20% | Information not yet available | |
| Assessment 3: Final Document | 40% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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