Course Title: Industrial Design Practice

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Industrial Design Practice

Credit Points: 12.00

Important Information:

In 2024 this course is titled 'User Centred Design Studio'.

From 2025 this course will be titled 'Industrial Design Practice'.

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
GRAP1031	City Campus	Undergraduate	315H Architecture & Design	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2006, Sem 1 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 1 2012, Sem 1 2013
GRAP1031	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, Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017
GRAP1031	City Campus	Undergraduate	370H Design	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2018, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2022, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 2 2024, Sem 1 2025, Sem 2 2025
GRAP2914	Brunswick Campus	Undergraduate	370H Design	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 2 2021

Course Coordinator: Soumitri Varadarajan

Course Coordinator Phone: Please email

Course Coordinator Email: soumitri.varadarajan@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: School of Design, RMIT University, City Campus

Course Coordinator Availability: Please email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

Industrial Design Practice introduces you to design practices and principles through a series of individual and team-based design projects. With a focus on methods for interpreting and designing products for people and extended stakeholder requirements, you will learn how to collaboratively structure, undertake and deliver industrial design studio projects. Through various phases of research, concept development, visualisation, digital and physical modelling, and critique, your design projects will culminate in detailed design proposals.

This is a core course in the BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes

You will be assessed on your development of the following BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program learning outcomes:

• Apply analytical, critical, creative, and strategic thinking to industrial design problems and research across complex, place-based, and cultural contexts
• Collaborate with communities, specialists, and key stakeholders to respond to design challenges in complex, diverse and multi-disciplinary settings.
• Articulate complex design ideas with respect for diverse audiences using an adaptable range of technologies, techniques, and modes of representation.
• 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:

CLO1: Appreciate the social implications of industrial design decisions on the ways people interact with technical artefacts and systems in an analytical, creative and robust manner.

CLO2: Articulate your design ideas through a series of mediums including drawings, prototypes, public presentations and reports.

CLO3: Critically analyse the role of design, and reflect on the implications of your own activities and responsibilities in relation to people, cultures and place-based concerns.

CLO4: Demonstrate collaborative, creative, and strategic design thinking through a rapid acquisition and application of specialist knowledge and skills within design studio projects.

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 in 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.

Core Course

Please note that this course is a core course in the Bachelor of Industrial Design (Hons) program. This course is not numerically graded and will not contribute to the calculation of your Weighted Academic Mark (WAM). 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

Task 1: Design Appreciation, 10% CLO 1

Task 2: Design Sprint 30% CLOs 2, 3, 4

Task 3: Design Challenge, 30%, CLOs 2, 3, 4

Task 4: Design Project 30%CLOs 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.