Course Title: Design Studio: Technology

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Design Studio: Technology

Credit Points: 24.00

Important Information:

In 2024 this course is titled 'Design Studio: Digital'. 

From 2025 this course will be titled 'Design Studio: Technology'. 


Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

GRAP2221

City Campus

Undergraduate

315H Architecture & Design

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2006,
Sem 2 2006,
Sem 1 2007,
Sem 2 2007,
Sem 1 2008,
Sem 2 2008,
Sem 1 2009,
Sem 2 2009,
Sem 1 2010,
Sem 1 2011,
Sem 2 2011,
Sem 1 2012,
Sem 2 2012,
Sem 1 2013,
Sem 2 2013

GRAP2221

City Campus

Undergraduate

320H Architecture & Urban Design

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2014,
Sem 2 2014,
Spring2014,
Sem 1 2015,
Sem 2 2015,
Sem 1 2016,
Sem 2 2016,
Sem 1 2017,
Sem 2 2017

GRAP2221

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 2022,
Sem 2 2022,
Sem 1 2023,
Sem 2 2023,
Sem 1 2024,
Sem 2 2024,
Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Scott Mayson

Course Coordinator Phone: Please email

Course Coordinator Email: scott.mayson@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Please email

Course Coordinator Availability: Please email


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Recommended Prior Study   

Before you commence this course you should have satisfactorily completed: 

GRAP1041/2919 Design & Society  

GRAP1050/2931 Computer-Aided Industrial Design 1 

GRAP1052/2933 Industrial Design Prototyping 1 

GRAP1049/2924 Industrial Design Drawing 1 

GRAP1031/2914 Industrial Design Practice  

GRAP2577/2941 Computer Aided Industrial Design 2 

ARCH3355/ ARCH3358 Industrial Design Prototyping 2 

GRAP2576/2926 Industrial Design Drawing 2 

Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.    

Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.   


Course Description

Design Studio: Technology offers you an applied industrial design project experience focussed on the use and application of emerging technologies. With a particular emphasis on exploring and mastering digitally generated and produced design outcomes you will work independently and in collaboration with fellow students. Projects may be in collaboration with industry and community partners including: research groups within universities; and, the research and development teams in the design, strategy, and technical innovation sectors from Australia and abroad. You will undertake applied design research through specialised methods of digital design development, presentation and prototyping to realise sophisticated design outcomes. 

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 is a designated WIL course in which you will undertake an industry engaged project in a design studio environment. 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes 

In this course you will develop the following BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program learning outcomes: 

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.  

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. 


Course Learning Outcomes 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:  

CLO1: Research, identify, and respond to complex design problems  through design practice and an ethically grounded and creative approach to design. 

CLO2: Articulate your design ideas to a professional standard though a range of mediums including drawings, software, prototypes, presentations and reports.  

CLO3: Critically analyse the roles of design, and reflect on the implications on your own activities as a designer.  

CLO4: Demonstrate creative and strategic design thinking through a rapid acquisition and application of specialist knowledge and skills and the management of design studio projects in collaboration with peers and other stakeholders. 


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. 


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 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Hons) program. As such, it is numerically graded and contributes to the calculation of your Weighted Academic Mark (WAM). 

Assessment Tasks 

Task 1: Design Project Immersion, 10% CLO 1 
Task 2: Design Development, 30% CLOs 1, 3, 4 
Task 3: Design Project Realisation, 60% CLOs  1, 2, 3, 4 

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.