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Unit name Design Studio - Lab A
Unit code KDA350
Credit points 25
Faculty/School College of Sciences and Engineering
School of Technology, Environments and Design
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Learning Outcomes

ILO 1 - Employ tools and techniques of design visualisation and communication to engage diverse audiences.

ILO 2 - Generate and refine design propositions employing participatory processes of analysis, experimentation and speculation.

ILO 3 - Communicate and co-create with diverse audiences and participants by applying cross-cultural knowledge and skills of negotiation, collaboration and critique

ILO 4 - Conduct socially and environmentally responsible practice by anticipating and interrelating implications of design in initiating change in community projects.

Contribution to Graduate Outcomes

Ethics: Students critically assess ethical issues in planning and conducting a community-engaged design project, including referencing relevant codes of conduct; assessed via report (AT3)
Well-being: Students are challenged to demonstrate how their participatory design process and outcomes contribute to community well-being; assessed via workshop design and content (AT1)
Experiential learning: Students are guided to work with consenting community members on a collaborative design project to devise and run a participatory design workshop; demonstrated commitment to socially responsible design practice assessed via workshop (AT1)

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Requisites

Prerequisites

KDA246 and KDA247

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

Workshop - 4-hr x weekly

Assessment

Collaborative Design Workshop - 20%
Community Design Event - 40%
Design Report - 40%

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