This week we will be exploring ideas, craft and context, applied thinking, speculative planning and contemporary theory in design.
Last week we asked you to identify the subject of your self-initiated project, based on your own interests, identity or experience, and then develop a brief to outline your aim, objective, critical context, audience and final outcome.
This week we expect you to address these aims and start to develop your initial concepts, rationale and visual direction for your self-initiated project.
Your research, development and project planning a will inform the ways in which your project develops, so it’s imperative that you take time to thoroughly explore a variety of suitable directions and avenues to reach your chosen audience.
Don’t forget to refer back to the references that were outlined during previous module(s) and deploy relevant research methodologies, which will help you to ensure that you are gathering reference material in the right places and in the correct ways.
You will be working towards achieving the following learning outcomes:
LO1: Research — Select and deploy appropriate research methodologies to inform the needs within a project.
LO4: Distil — Position a creative strategic insight that has been distilled and refined through an informed investigation.
LO5: Imagine — Deliver appropriate and innovative ideas that embrace risk, have contemporary relevance and question the boundaries of the discipline.
LO6: Make — Select and utilise relevant tools, skills and technologies in the delivery, iteration and sustainable production of an outcome.
LO7: Collaborate — Demonstrate inclusive and empathetic strategies to plan and execute a project across distributed collaborative situations.
LO8: Design — Realise a final solution that evidences its strategic journey and clear relationship between form and function.
LO9: Communicate — Communicate effectively in a range of contexts and situations to specialist and non-specialist audiences.