Title: Circuits of Dissemination
Credits: 10
read more »The Circuits of Dissemination module teaches students how to professionally compose, impart and exchange information. It provides students with the tools to explore circuits for the promotion and distribution of work and practice. It is designed to instil confidence in student discourse, which in turn, professionalises their work and reaches appropriate audiences. It provides students with skills which can bring their work to the attention of relevant publics and present their work professionally across different media. The module equips students with knowledge of, and skills in, the abundance of ways in which one can communicate accurately and effectively.
Title: Collaborative Project
Credits: 10
read more »The Collaborative Project module offers students the opportunity to develop collaborative interdisciplinary skills by forming an acute awareness, understanding, and ability to reflect upon collaboration as a conscious iterative process. This module not only provides opportunities for students to develop a systematic collaborative process with their peers in response to a problem-based brief, but also gives students a platform to critically reflect on collaboration and develop a group outcome in response to a chosen brief.
Title: Contemporary Design Issues
Credits: 10
read more »Contemporary Design Issues offers students the opportunity to analyse, examine and give discourse to a range of issues which not only face individual practitioners but also have a significant impact on the intersections where different disciplines encounter one another. The module provides a platform which allows the students to collectively further their knowledge by observing specific problem-areas from various perspectives and gain new insights into ways in which they can strategically exploit design in order to move towards solutions. This is a foundational part of the programme as it enables the students to consider and tackle present-day issues with creativity, integrity, purpose, and responsibility.
Title: Design Economies
Credits: 10
read more »Design Economies represent the value created by those employed in design roles within a wide variety of industries; from design-intensive sectors to designers and design engineers in alternative operations such those ongoing in pharmaceutical industries, corporate companies, or governmental bodies (Design Council, 2015). Design is now embedded in sectors where design plays a crucial role but may not always be the prominent identity. Design Economies not only introduces students to key marketing skills and essential tools for enterprise, but also allows them to ruminate on imperative factors like ethics, circular economies, and regeneration for sustainably designed products, services, and experiences.
Title: Design Research Methods
Credits: 10
read more »The Design Research Methods module provides students with the opportunity to engage in methodological debates around the place of design within research contexts. The module critically evaluates a range of research methods and approaches to assess their appropriateness to design research applications. The module provides students with generic research literacies in academic and professional design research. In addition to addressing issues to do with design’s epistemology, this module also deals with issues around validity, quality and the protocols and processes of conducting research in an ethical manner.
Title: Situated Design Research
Credits: 10
read more »The Situated Design Research module introduces students to contemporary debates, approaches, and concepts relating to situated research; research which takes place in local environments as opposed to our studios, libraries, laboratories, or offices etc. It not only provides a platform for the means to build, store, and share research resources but also facilitates an important connection and exposure to practical problems in the real world. This module holds a particular emphasis on instructional design and design for behaviour change.
Title: Major Project
Credits: 30
read more »Throughout the programme, students work towards their final Major Project. Depending on the nature of the research and the desires of the students, the outcome of the Major Project may be one of several diverse and contrasting possibilities. For instance, it might not necessarily be a physical artefact of design, but could be a recommended prototype, a business plan, a socially responsible proposal, a digitally designed object, a cultural design policy, an interactive educational space, a design-management framework, a service-design plan, a re-purposed design, a theoretical study, a manifesto for an industrial ecology scheme etc. The Major Project module empowers students with a trustworthy and tactful duty to enact social change and enhance better ways of living. Designing to make a real difference. Designing for transformation.
