2023/24

In this module we will explore and investigate Service and UX design as rapidly expanding areas of design practice as well as ever-evolving industries. We will explore experiences around us in a holistic way and think systemically about how we might design inclusive, memorable and meaningful interactions around us.

We will engage paradigms of the physical and digital worlds in creating interventions which seek positive social impact across the areas of micro - meso - macro spheres of design.

You will explore design as an inter /trans/ cross-disciplinary endeavour through considerations of impact on personal practice and methodologies, social and life-centred design as well as systemic design.

Throughout this module you will undertake a journey of unlearning, experimenting, play and curiosity. This is a studio module and will manoeuvre students into designerly ways of thinking, making, and knowing. 

In this module we will explore and investigate design practice from holistic and reductionist perspectives, their relationship, and critiques., as well as,  discover diverse forms of thinking and making in design. You will explore design as an inter /trans/ cross-disciplinary endeavour through considerations of impact on personal practice and methodologies, social and life-centred design as well as systemic design.

This module will challenge you to consider design practices from the artefact to the system level and gain an understanding of positionality of design and innovation on a micro, meso and macro level. You will continue to will explore how design has impacted the world, solved, and created problems and how design processes evolve to respond to the world's ever more complex challenges. This will be done through collaborative and individual design challenges which will allow students to explore and test diverse and inventive methods to design and system thinking.

Throughout this module you will undertake a journey of unlearning, experimenting, play and curiosity. This is a studio module and will manoeuvre students into designerly ways of thinking, making, and knowing.