Course Title: Design Studies - Capstone Studio 1
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Design Studies - Capstone Studio 1
Credit Points: 24.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
GRAP2745 |
RMIT University Vietnam |
Undergraduate |
840H School of Communication and Design |
Face-to-Face |
Viet3 2019, Viet1 2020, Viet2 2020, Viet3 2020, Viet1 2021, Viet2 2021, Viet3 2021, Viet1 2022, Viet2 2022, Viet3 2022, Viet1 2023, Viet2 2023, Viet3 2023, Viet1 2024 |
GRAP2909 |
RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus |
Undergraduate |
840H School of Communication and Design |
Face-to-Face |
Viet2 2022, Viet3 2022, Viet1 2023, Viet2 2023, Viet1 2024 |
Course Coordinator: Andrew Stiff
Course Coordinator Phone: +84 961407647
Course Coordinator Email: andrew.stiff@rmit.edu.vn
Course Coordinator Location: SGS; RMIT Vietnam
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Required Prior Study
You should have satisfactorily completed all your Year One and Year Two courses and have acquired at least 216 credits before you can commence this course.
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
In this course, you will be offered a high degree of creative and intellectual freedom to develop your own innovative design ideas and solutions. You will be encouraged to apply your theoretical and practical skills in your chosen design discipline to a particular social, environmental and/or sustainability challenge. Integrating your previous learning and applying it to a real-world problem will require further development of research, problem identification/definition and problem-solving capability. You will be required to develop your real-world design solution to at least a prototype stage and to present this to lecturers and peers for critical feedback and further solution refinement.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course supports your development in these program learning outcomes:
PLO6 Exercise creativity, critical thinking and independent judgment to identify and solve real-world design challenges, and define and communicate innovative solutions.
PLO7 Apply planning, problem-solving and decision-making skills to the end-to-end design process.
PLO8 Develop responsibility and accountability for development of a personal design practice that demonstrates an original, ethical, innovative and professional approach to design.
Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:
CLO1 Develop design processes that employ creative techniques that impact on your personal approach to design work
CLO2 Critically evaluate possible design techniques that guide your personal development
CLO3 Refine solutions based on critical evaluation and feedback.
CLO4 Develop design solutions to enable potential markets and users to adopt solutions.
Overview of Learning Activities
Delivered in a design studio format, and with proper teaching support, you will be provided with a high degree of freedom to define your own design challenge/problem, develop your own research and thinking relevant to the social, environmental, ethical or cultural domain and propose/develop your own design solutions. You will be encouraged to develop your creative skills, sense of ethics and critical self-appraisal to develop innovative design outcomes. You will also exhibit your work to peers and a range of teaching staff in a final showcase setting.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT University will provide you with a range of resources and tools to engage in this course, including studio and workshop facilities, online systems and professional equipment. A selected range of supplies are available, as well as support from technical staff. You will also have access to a wide range of online resources through RMIT Vietnam University Library.
Some projects that involve constructed outputs may require additional materials – this will be negotiated with the lecturer when the project scope is agreed.
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. Assessment is based on an evaluation of your level of attainment in the development and delivery of an integrated project that applies design theory, skills and previous project-based experience to a real-world social, environmental or sustainability issue.
Assessment Tasks
Creative Task 1 – Research and process documentation, 50%, CLOs 1 & 2
Creative Task 2 – Final outputs and outcome presentation, 50%, CLOs 3 & 4
Your final design work presented to a professional standard showing evidence of creative outputs supported by aesthetic responses, originality and innovation. Critical reflection on the possible impact/s of the outcomes.
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.