Hobart, Launceston
This unit is being phased out and may not be offered next year, please consider your study plan accordingly. You will be able to enrol in the unit where there is an availability noted below.
Introduction
How can design embrace diversity and difference? Who are we designing for and how can we do design differently to foster greater inclusion?
This unit introduces you to participatory frameworks for design. It explores how methodological approaches from social sciences and political philosophy can be employed in design thinking to extend our understanding of the power and agency of design and critically questions how design is produced.
Through critical dialogue and debate you will develop and justify a design position that considers divergent perspectives and alternate sites of knowledge. You will research and evaluate collaborative design practices and the role of image, text and narrative in engaging, negotiating and communicating with different audiences.
Summary 2020
| Unit name | Design Thinking 4 - Communities |
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| Unit code | KDA249 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Sciences and Engineering School of Technology, Environments and Design |
| Discipline | Architecture & Design |
| Coordinator | TBA |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Available as student elective? | Yes |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
ILO 1 - Justify a design position that considers divergent perspectives derived from alternate sites of knowledge.
ILO 2 - Evaluate participatory frameworks for design.
ILO 3 - Propose ways that design agency performs within social, political and cultural formations.
Contribution to Graduate Outcomes (Degree Core unit)
Well-being: Students approach well-being at community level linking it with social indicators of health and social cohesion; assessed integral to participatory design proposal (AT2)
Literacy: Students undertake guided evaluative and critical writing to present a rationale and justification; assessed via design research report (AT3)
Fees
Requisites
Prerequisites
KDA143 and KDA144
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | Lecture/Seminar - 1-hr x weekly, Seminar - 1-hr weekly, Workshop - 4-hr (3) |
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| Assessment | Debate (online) - 20% |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | None |
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