Undergraduate Course: Product Design Practice and Theory (AREA08002)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Design |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is currently only available to students in ESALA.
This course introduces architecture students to the discipline of Product Design. Students will engage with the current debates in contemporary Product Design, and be introduced to the fundamental knowledge and skills of product design and how they complement their own architectural practice. Students work on a series of exercises and projects of differing timeframes and increasing complexity within a studio environment. Students are encouraged to develop an iterative creative process that incorporates making, evaluating, presenting and reflecting.
Aims:
1) introduce basic creative methods, techniques and approaches
2) explore how practitioners personally respond to briefs
3) introduce materials and processes
Mode of delivery will be Studio-Based Project Work, Lectures, Group Crits, Individual and Group Mentoring, Project Review. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | course materials |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. EVALUATE: evaluate and respond to product design project briefs, and formulate appropriate approaches.
2. DEVELOP: apply fundamental product design material and conceptual development through a transparent iterative process.
3. REALISE: realise product design project solutions through structured and transparent methodologies.
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Assessment Information
| Assessment plan not entered. |
Special Arrangements
| This course is only available to student in ESALA. |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
Specific Bibliography will be determined by tutors. |
| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
Contact Hours 30 hours
Directed Study 85 hours
Self-Directed Study 85 hours
Total 200 hours |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Douglas Bryden
Tel: (0131 6)51 5728
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Course secretary | Ms Jane Thomson
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