Course Title: Atelier
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Atelier
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
GRAP2570 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
320H Architecture & Urban Design |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2014, Sem 2 2014, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2016 |
GRAP2570 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
370H Design |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2023, Sem 1 2025 |
Flexible Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
GRAP2570 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
370H Design |
Face-to-Face |
UGRDFlex23 (B203), UGRDFlex23 (BAIM), UGRDFlex23 (BP15), UGRDFlex23 (All) |
Course Coordinator: Caroline Francis
Course Coordinator Phone: Please email
Course Coordinator Email: caroline.francis@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Please email
Course Coordinator Availability: Please email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None.
To participate in this course, it is expected that you can undertake self-directed design studio projects and associated technical knowledge and skills. Additionally, you are to be confident in workshop environments and demonstrate some proficiency in using manual and automated fabrication equipment in order to undertake work safely and productively.
Course Description
Atelier provides you with a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunity to learn through undertaking practical and theoretical design projects that deal with questions of aesthetics, materiality, and the design process as modes of cultural production. Situated in the trans-disciplinary intersections between design practice, art making, contemporary craft and social systems, this course places significant emphasis on the combination of traditional and emerging design methods and form and fabrication techniques. Each semester an expert in a particular field of design practice will offer an immersion into their modes of design activity, within which you will develop your own process of design exploration, refinement and prototyping.
This course is a component of a major offered by the BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
This course contributes to the following 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.
PLO3: Articulate complex design ideas with respect for diverse audiences using an adaptable range of technologies, techniques, and modes of representation.
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.
If you are taking this course as an option course or as part of a minor, this course will complement the learning outcomes you are developing in your program.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Apply specialist technical knowledge and skills.
2. Approach unfamiliar design processes with confidence, creativity, and a willingness to connect theory to practice and vice versa.
3. Articulate your design ideas in a range of mediums.
4. Reflect on your learning to inform future actions.
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; realizing 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.
Major/Minor course
Please note that this course is not numerically graded. That means you will receive either a Pass Grade (PX) or a Fail Grade (NN) on completion.
The assessment task percentage weightings give you an indication of the volume and significance of the work required relative to the whole course experience.
For assessment tasks due for submission during the relevant semester teaching period, if you receive a Fail Grade on work submitted you will have one week to address the specific feedback and resubmit for reassessment. For assessment tasks due after the conclusion of classes this option is not available.
To successfully complete this course, you need to have passed all assessment tasks.
Courses with a PX grade structure are automatically excised from the calculation of your Grade Point Average (GPA) and are not included in the calculation of Weighted Academic Mark (WAM) for embedded Bachelor Honours programs.
This approach to grading and assessment is aimed at ensuring each course is inclusive of student diversity and prior learning and capabilities can be developed as is appropriate to your discipline and interests.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Appreciation, 10%, CLO 1
Assessment Task 2: Inquiry, 30%, CLOs 1, 2, 3
Assessment Task 3: Project 30%, CLOs 1, 2, 3
Assessment Task 4: Documentation 30%, 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.