Handbook

Design Honours Research Project 2 is the final of two Honours research courses designed to support you in developing and delivering your self-guided Honours research project. In this course, you will continue to critically develop your theoretical and/or practice-led research project realised in DDES4101 Design Honours Research Project 1, in relation to both your design practice, and your scholarly research framework and written dissertation. You will then resolve your research project into a sophisticated, professional design outcome supported by a written thesis. This course is taught in a studio context, emphasising contemporary design practice as a key mode of investigation and discovery and alignment to industry. The studio also operates as a collegiate and peer-oriented environment, run over two consecutive terms, so as to allow time for experimentation, development and exploration ahead of the final outcomes that constitute the majority of your Honours grade. The studio course fosters a supportive and rigorous culture of creative practice, critical discussion, and exchange.