Course Title: Contemporary Furniture Design & Construction (Ergonomic)
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5111
Course Title: Contemporary Furniture Design & Construction (Ergonomic)
Portfolio: DSC
Nominal Hours: 110.0
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
BUIL5379 |
City Campus |
TAFE |
320T Design (TAFE) |
Face-to-Face |
Term1 2009 |
Course Contact: Julian Pratt
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4820
Course Contact Email: julian.pratt@rmit.edu
Course Description
In this course students develop an individual and innovative approach to designing and making an item of contemporary furniture specifically addressing ergonomics, such as a chair, and using timber as the basic material.
This course focuses on design and construction of prototypes of contemporary chairs.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Pre: BUIL 5377 and VART 5822C
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
VBA640 Contemporary Furniture Design & Construction (Ergonomic) |
Learning Outcomes
1. Use ergonomic design principles in the development of a number of concepts for making a chair
2. Conduct design development, designing ergonomically for human usage.
3. Construct an ergonomically designed piece of contemporary furniture.
4. Upon completion of construction of the ergonomically designed item of contemporary furniture, evaluate the process
Overview of Assessment
• Brief: Describing market for piece
• Design folio of: Sketches and development work
• Production of item: completed furniture item
• Craftsmanship: assessed for structure, accuracy, finish, materials choices and quality control
• Self-Assessment: A written assessment of the finished piece