DNB111 ID Studio 2: Aesthetics and Visualisation
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| Unit code: | DNB111 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,680 |
| International unit fee | $5,784 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DNB111 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Levi Swann | levi.swann@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This introductory unit advances knowledge and skills with analogue and digital visualisation techniques to explore, elaborate and communicate your design ideas effectively. The most common and complex aspect of industrial design deals with creating aesthetically pleasing products imbued with meaning and value through form and function. Continuing the development of design process knowledge and skills established in DNB110 ID Studio 1: User Centred Design, this unit delves deeper into ideas of aesthetics and meaning in order to advance the quality of everyday products.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply product aesthetics.
- Apply CAD skills at a basic level.
- Demonstrate visualisation and presentation skills.
- Apply design process at a basic level.
Content
The major topics covered in this unit include:
- aesthetic, practical and symbolic aspects of products
- design process and concept development
- industrial design visualisation and presentation techniques
- CAD principles and techniques
- integration of analogue and digital techniques.
Learning Approaches
This unit will consist of lectures, design studios and discussions. The focus is on project based learning in the design studio setting where your work will be supported by lectures, blended/online material, one-to-one and group activities, feedback sessions and workshops. Each studio you will be required to present the work completed since the previous class, for discussion in a group situation where you will have an opportunity to explain your research and/or designs and receive feedback from your peers and staff. A key component of the studio is for students and staff to work together to learn about design. Your active participation and a sense of personal responsibility for your development as a designer are essential for success.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in following ways:
- in class formative exercises
- criteria sheets
- Canvas general comments to cohort group
- collaborative peer feedback.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment will comprise of formative (how your work is progressing) and summative assessment (to grade your work against expected outcome). Formative assessment will be provided over the course of the project in studio for the Design Concept and Design Development Record (DDR), which will record your design process. Design Concept, DDR and Presentation of the design/s will receive summative and formative assessment at the conclusion of the project. Short design exercises will be conducted in studio and generally submitted at the end of class for assessment. Summative assessment applies the criterion referenced assessment relevant to each assessment task.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: ID Portfolio 1
Assessment: ID Design Project
Assessment: ID Portfolio 2
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
- For general security, safety and wellbeing, students should review HiQ Safety and security
- Access to KG, Z10 or GP, J Block workshops requires completion of a Workshops safety induction
- Access to studios requires completion of a KG studios induction
- Student projects that may involve medium or high risk, or off campus projects, require a formal risk assessment
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. Additional safety inductions may be required for this unit.
Further information can be found on the unit Canvas site.
Resources
There are no set textbooks for this unit. Please refer to unit Canvas for resources.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully 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. This must be completed online. There are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues in this setting.
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.
Workshop usage may be associated with this unit. Prior to workshop access all students are required to complete the General Safety Induction and the J-Block workshop Induction that introduce safety regulations. Students who do not act in accordance with the requirements of the Workplace and Health and Safety Act will be asked to leave workshop.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.DE43 Bachelor of Design
- Demonstrate theoretical and technical design knowledge, synthesising methods and theories of design in dynamic and evolving contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, ID Portfolio 1, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2 - Demonstrate technical proficiencies to undertake rigorous and iterative design experimentation that considers participatory and co-creation design processes.
Relates to: ULO2, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2 - 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: ULO3, ID Portfolio 1, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2 - Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
Relates to: ULO4, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2
DE45 Bachelor of Design - International
- Demonstrate theoretical and technical design knowledge, synthesising methods and theories of design in dynamic and evolving contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, ID Portfolio 1, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2 - Demonstrate technical proficiencies to undertake rigorous and iterative design experimentation that considers participatory and co-creation design processes.
Relates to: ULO2, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2 - 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: ULO3, ID Portfolio 1, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2 - Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
Relates to: ULO4, ID Design Project, ID Portfolio 2