DYB101 Impact Lab: Place and Context
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| Unit code: | DYB101 |
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| Equivalent(s): | DEB101, KKB102, KKD102, KKB185, KYB101 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $957 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DYB101 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | DEB101, KKB102, KKD102, KKB185, KYB101 |
| Coordinator: | Waldemar Jenek | w.jenek@qut.edu.au |
Overview
While you will develop disciplinary knowledge and skills through the course, many problems facing organisations and societies naturally span disciplines. DYB101 explores the potential of design to bring about change.
DYB101 introduces design processes and practices for a future characterised by diverse perspectives, social agendas and environmental concerns. You will learn how 21st-century designers from all disciplines apply empathy and the ability to acknowledge and incorporate diverse viewpoints to address challenging themes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Examine, illustrate and reflect on the potential for design to bring about impactful change, while identifying and working respectfully with the diverse perspectives that exist among participants and stakeholders.
- Apply visual, oral and written representation techniques for thinking and communicating ideas and knowledge.
- Generate, propose and develop ideas in response to a transdisciplinary design challenge using collaborative design methods, skills and frameworks.
Content
This unit may include the following topics:
- Current and future design practices, disciplines and interdisciplinarity
- The diverse impacts of design
- Team-based design processes
- Perspectives, worldviews and the use of empathy in design
- Reflective and critical thinking in design
Learning Approaches
With an active learning approach, DYB101 comprises self-paced content, scheduled weekly workshops leading to a week-long design intensive, typically conducted in week 6.
You will begin by exploring your expectations about design and learn how to integrate these with the values, ethical frameworks and processes of effective and engaged design collaboration. Next, you will learn, practice, and apply skills for designing using perspective-taking and empathy, focusing on place and context.
In the Design Intensive week, you will work in a small team on a place-based brief typically developed with a collaborating partner organisation.
As a rehearsal for real-world professional interactions, the unit will foster productive connections and offer opportunities to develop and refine your awareness of diverse perspectives and contributions.
To conclude DYB101, you will reflect on your team experience and your role in creating a positive impact through design.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback from tutors and peers is integral to weekly workshop tasks and the Design Intensive. Self-reflection and review underpin the Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment for this unit involves both formative (for feedback) and summative (for grading) components, individual response and reflection tasks and a team project and presentation. The grading schema of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory is used in all Impact Lab units. DYB101 is assessed by two summative items. You must meet or exceed the required standards for each assessment item to pass DYB101.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Design Intensive
Working as a team, you will prepare a design proposal in response to a partner or stakeholder-defined brief or problem. The proposal will involve identifying the problem, conducting research, and developing a comprehensive design solution. The proposal will need to be presented to the partner/stakeholder and supported by a design rationale that demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed solution. The proposal may involve multiple iterations and should address any feedback or concerns raised by the partner/stakeholder.
Assessment: Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Readings and resource materials will be made available as appropriate through the unit Canvas site at http://Canvas.qut.edu.au, through the Library or at the QUT GP Bookshop.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection. Additionally, if registered for an online class you will need a webcam, headset and microphone, as well as access to a space where you are able to participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.DE43 Bachelor of Design
- Recognise the consequences of design and its impact on the world, with respect to open, ethical and inclusive core design values acknowledging global, cultural and / or indigenous contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Communicate coherently, independently and/or collaboratively using a range of media to convey and share design knowledge and ideas to diverse audiences in a range of contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Use transdisciplinary methods to effectively work in diverse teams to address real-world challenges.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Exercise self reflection, resilience, adaptability and self-direction and leverage failure in order to unlock new ideas, approaches, and ways of doing and knowing.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Identify and challenge biases and demonstrate respect for personal and professional integrity, and cultural and social differences.
Relates to: ULO1, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Independently demonstrate an ethical, sustainable and holistic approach to design, that critically considers impact.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation
DE45 Bachelor of Design - International
- Recognise the consequences of design and its impact on the world, with respect to open, ethical and inclusive core design values acknowledging global, cultural and / or indigenous contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Communicate coherently, independently and/or collaboratively using a range of media to convey and share design knowledge and ideas to diverse audiences in a range of contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Use transdisciplinary methods to effectively work in diverse teams to address real-world challenges.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Exercise self reflection, resilience, adaptability and self-direction and leverage failure in order to unlock new ideas, approaches, and ways of doing and knowing.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Identify and challenge biases and demonstrate respect for personal and professional integrity, and cultural and social differences.
Relates to: ULO1, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Independently demonstrate an ethical, sustainable and holistic approach to design, that critically considers impact.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation
DV43 Bachelor of Design
- Recognise the consequences of design and its impact on the world, with respect to open, ethical and inclusive core design values acknowledging and working in global, cultural and indigenous contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Communicate coherently, independently and/or collaboratively using a range of media to convey and share design knowledge and ideas to diverse audiences in a range of contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Use transdisciplinary methods to effectively work in diverse teams to address real-world challenges.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Exercise self reflection, resilience, adaptability and self-direction and leverage failure in order to unlock new ideas, approaches, and ways of doing and knowing.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Identify and challenge biases and demonstrate respect for personal and professional integrity, and cultural and social differences.
Relates to: ULO1, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation - Independently demonstrate an ethical, sustainable and holistic approach to design, that critically considers the impact and the policy context.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Intensive, Learning Journal and Self-Evaluation