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Design Studio Project A aims to develop critical research skills in students, to formulate research questions responding to complex issues and grand challenges facing contemporary society, and design project briefs for a major design project.

This advanced level course will provide students with design thinking and project formulation strategies through critical engagement with theory, concepts and practices, including thinking around sustainability and ethics, as well as endusers – clients, stakeholders and community.

Students will develop interdisciplinary design thinking and processes that includes elements such prototyping, diagramming, fabrication and presentation. The design studio project briefs engage with students’ studio specialisation studies and their understanding of integrated design and project management.

Students will work as part of multidisciplinary teams and independently to develop critical, rigourous and sophisticated design research questions and brief for their studio project in SDES9214.