Design Research - SDES9205
Faculty: College of Fine Arts
School: School of Design Studies
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
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Description
This course explores skills in research methodologies with which designers question and critique design orthodoxies through practice. The seminar introduces a range of research approaches including documented observation and quantitative data analysis, in combination with a case study that compares design objects, criticism and manifestos. Implementing such methodologies, students develop a research proposal that addresses a social issue related to design and globalisation or design and environmental sustainability, and prototype an experimental design that probes a convention in contemporary design discourse.