Course Title: Contemporary Furniture Design & Construction (Production)
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2009
Course Code: BUIL5378
Course Title: Contemporary Furniture Design & Construction (Production)
School: 320T Design (TAFE)
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5111 - Diploma of Arts (Furniture Design)
Course Contact : Julian Pratt
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4820
Course Contact Email:julian.pratt@rmit.edu
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Leo Sadlek
Office: Bldg 71.2.03
Phone: 9925 4150
Nominal Hours: 110
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: BUIL 5377, VART 5822C and BUIL 5376
Course Description
In this course students develop an individual and innovative approach to designing and making an item of contemporary furniture, or a commercial item, for multiple production. This module is specifically designed to cater for the needs of designer-makers in developing prototypes of contemporary furniture, rather than to learn factory production procedures.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
VBA638 Contemporary Furniture Design & Construction (Production) |
Learning Outcomes
1. In conjunction with the module Working as a Designer Maker, investigate and identify a market niche for a product.
2. Plan a prototype design project for multiple units within the furniture or craft industries
3. Conduct design development to the prototype.
4. Modify prototype design specifications, as necessary, for multiple production.
5. Production of multiple units of the modified prototype as a production run
6. Evaluate the process for design quality, innovation, efficiency of production and marketability.
Details of Learning Activities
- Discuss and Examine the characteristics of jigs and patterns with a focus on benefits including: safety, accuracy, consistency and ease of use.
- Observe jigs in use for a variety of applications
- Design jigs for specific opperations.
- Produce a batch of ’quick cam clamps’ using jigs and patterns.
- Draw orthoganal plans of jigs to scale including jig opperation instructions.
Teaching Schedule
Week:
- 12, 13/02/2009: Introduction to Production Processing; Machinery Review; Explanation of Jig and Pattern properties; Safety issues; Examples of jigs in the Furniture Workshop.
- 19, 20/02/2009: Jig design for specific opperations involved in the fabrication of the clamp; Case study of jigs and patterns in use for clock production; Group work on jig design, construction and safe use.
- 26, 27/02/2009: Case study of jigs and patterns in use for clock production; Group work on jig design, construction and safe use. Preparation of material for use in fabricating batched product (clamp). Router opperation review and enhancement.
- 5, 6/03/2009: Case study of jigs and patterns in use for clock production; Group work on jig design, construction and safe use. Preparation of material for use in fabricating batched product (clamp).
- 12, 13/03/2009: Case study of jigs and patterns in use for clock production; Group work on jig design, construction and safe use. Preparation of material for use in fabricating batched product (clamp).
- 19, 20/03/2009: Case study of jigs and patterns in use for clock production; Group work on jig design, construction and safe use. Assemply of clamps and completion of group work project
- 26, 27/03/2009: Drawings of clamp jigs with Instructions due date.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
• Series of Presentations of: market research and preliminary design work; progress and key decisions so far in the production planning; Preliminary sketches, refinement sketches, drawings of details and 2-D and 3-D representations of final design proposal and production drawings.
• Production of Jigs & Patterns: Usage of jigs and patterns to streamline production.
• Materials: Consideration of suitability of materials and hardware.
• Craftsmanship: Overall appearance of final batch product with regard to neat and professional finish, durability and attention to detail.
• Costing & time lines: Details of costing for a proposed batch production. Should include cost of all materials, production time as well as developmental stages
• Evaluation: presentation of personal review of production, design of product produced.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task #1: Group Production. (60%) The first hands-on work for 2008 will be production of a batch of cam clamps. Your group will go through the process of design for batch production and eventually make enough clamps for everyone in the group to have several for future use. Completed 20.03.2009
Assessment Task #2: Jig Design sketches. (10%) Submit for assessment and discussion a proposal for a jig design to accomplish one of the repeated operations involved in the jig batch production. Submitted 19.02.2009
Assessment Task #3: Jig Drawings and Notes on Usage. (30%) Submit a dimensioned and scaled drawing of a jig in which you were involved in the designing and making. The drawing should be neat, clear and easy to read, and adhere to standard drawing practice (Orthogonal Drawing). On a separate page write a description of how the jig is used and specification on material that is to be used in conjunction with the jig. This is an important step in training yourself to make notes on jigs to facilitate easy use of the jig at some future time. Some of the information might include order of operations and safety considerations for use and dimensions and alignment of prepared stock to be used with the jig. Submit on 27.03.2009
Assessment Matrix
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