Course Title: Design Honours Project 2
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Design Honours Project 2
Credit Points: 24.00
Important Information:
In 2024 this course is titled 'Industrial Design Honours Project Part Two'.
From 2025 this course will be titled 'Design Honours Project Part 2'.
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
GRAP1040 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
315H Architecture & Design |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2006, Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2012, Sem 2 2013 |
GRAP1040 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
320H Architecture & Urban Design |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2014, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2016, Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017 |
GRAP1040 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
370H Design |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2018, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 2 2021, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 2 2024, Sem 1 2025 |
GRAP2930 |
Brunswick Campus |
Undergraduate |
370H Design |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2022, Sem 2 2022 |
Course Coordinator: Juan Sanin
Course Coordinator Phone: Please email
Course Coordinator Email: juan.sanin@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: School of Design, RMIT University, City Campus
Course Coordinator Availability: Please email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Requisite Courses
Successful completion of ARCH3368 Design Honours Project 1
and GRAP2225 Methods in Design Research and Practice.
Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.
For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.
NOTE: For students from any Engineering / Industrial Design double degree programs as part of your program you undertake ARCH3368 Design Honours Project 1 and GRAP2225 Methods in Design Research and Practice followed by GRAP1040 Design Honours Project 2 in the subsequent semester. These projects either are directly connected with industry or simulate the situation of a graduate engineer in industry reporting to a supervisor with whom they meet regularly. In the cases where the project is directly connected with industry the industry partner is usually involved in some components of the assessment. Industrial practitioners can become involved in the assessment of some component of the work done by students involved in projects that simulate the situation of a graduate engineer in industry. This course acts as the submission point for your engineering work experience required as part of the Engineers Australia accreditation process.
Course Description
This course concludes the self-directed design research project commenced in Design Honours Project Part 1. Under supervision within a design-research studio setting, you will further develop and realise your design research project. You will translate your design solutions and propositions into rigorously documented, prototyped and tested artefacts and systems. These refined outcomes will be used to communicate your propositions to industry and community stakeholders in a professional and scholarly manner. You will reflect deeply on the meanings and findings you have discovered in your particular approach to research-led design practice.
This is a core course in the BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program.
If you are enrolled in this course as a component of your Bachelor Honours Program, your overall mark will contribute to the calculation of the weighted average mark (WAM). See the WAM information web page for more information.
This course includes a work integrated learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
This course contributes to the following BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program learning outcomes:
PLO1: Apply analytical, critical, creative, and strategic thinking to industrial design problems and research across complex, place-based, and cultural contexts.
PLO2: Collaborate with communities, specialists, and key stakeholders to respond to design challenges in complex, diverse and multi-disciplinary settings.
PLO3: Articulate complex design ideas with respect for diverse audiences using an adaptable range of technologies, techniques, and modes of representation.
PLO4: Generate innovative and self-aware approaches to design problems and their solutions using inclusive and respectful practices.
PLO5: Demonstrate and champion an awareness of design's impact upon people, place, and culture, through ethically grounded practice.
PLO6: Initiate, plan, manage, and realise research-led design projects in an independent, relational, reflective, and ethical manner.
PLO7: Reflect on and adapt your design decisions to address issues as they emerge, with awareness of your relationship to the diverse needs, values, and mindsets of others.
PLO8: Demonstrate and continue to develop a working knowledge of the diverse, technological, environmental, and cultural systems that industrial design practice contributes to.
NOTE: For students from any Engineering / Industrial Design double degree programs, and in addition to the Industrial Design program learning outcomes this course contributes to the development of the following three Engineering program learning outcomes:
1.5. Knowledge of contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline.
2.3. Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes.
3.2. Effective oral and written communication in professional and lay domains.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
CLO1: Address complex design issues and opportunities though an independent research-led design practice that is relational, reflective, and ethical.
CLO2: Professionally articulate your design and research practices and outcomes through a range of mediums with respect for diverse audiences and established standards.
CLO3: Critically reflect on your design practice with awareness to others and place-based and cultural concerns.
CLO4: Demonstrate analytical, critical, creative, and strategic thinking to design problems and their implications in a collaborative and respectful way.
CLO5: Initiate, conduct, and realise research-led design projects with acuity.
Overview of Learning Activities
Delivered in a design studio format, you will actively learn through a variety of face-to-face, self-directed and online activities. This course immerses you into specific aspects of the discipline, its methods and practices through doing design projects. These projects involve a range of planned learning experiences including: individual and group problem solving; sketch ideation and the iterative development of design concepts; prototyping for the purpose of further refining propositions; realising material design artefacts within workshop environments: and, presenting and reporting on individual and collective learning. The design studio format gives you the opportunity to explore and apply social, contextual , technical, and theoretical design issues in depth and through a variety of approaches, principles, real and simulated situations, and practical constraints.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
To effectively participate in coursework, either on, or away from campus, you are advised to obtain (as a minimum) the following:
- Drawing supplies including visual diaries, pens, pencils, markers and ancillary products and consumables.
- Personal Protective Equipment including protective eyewear, ear plugs, a dust jacket, and closed toe safety shoes.
- Prototyping supplies including a 150mm steel ruler, a high-quality craft knife and ancillary products, materials, and consumables.
- Design and documentation equipment including a personal computer of an appropriate specification, course specific software, a digital camera or mobile phone.
When on campus you will have access to and will utilise the School of Design workshop facilities, specialist computer labs and software, and 2D and 3D printing facilities.
Course specific resources such as readings, reference lists, access to specialist software, video demonstrations and class notes will be provided online.
There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.
A Library Subject Guide for the discipline this course is aligned to can be found here: https://rmit.libguides.com/design-industrial
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes.
Graded Core Course
Please note that this course is a core course in the BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program. As such, it is numerically graded and contributes to the calculation of your Weighted Academic Mark (WAM).
Assessment Tasks
Task 1: Design Project Summary
(5-min presentation and 600-word summary)
Weighting 10%
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 2 & 3
Task 2: Design Project Report
(6,500 words)
Weighting 50%
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
Task 3: Design Project Outcomes
(10-min presentation)
Weighting 40%
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures, and instructions.