Course description
This course focuses on developing advanced design planning skills at an operational level in which students are in contact with external clients in order to provide realistic learning experiences in design. Students will receive progressive counselling from instructors on professional practice, especially in the co operative and entrepreneurial client based areas of Industrial Design.
The theme for this course is designing for local industry, in which students are encouraged, with the assistance of their instructors, to find clients located externally to the College of Design and negotiate the design of novel human scale, medium to high complexity products (which may have mechanical, electric or electronic components). This is an industry collaboration studio in close contact with local industry as clients – the underlying purpose is to give students the opportunity to practice design and engage with clients in order to gain an authentic, real life, learning experience.
Examples of products are dependent on local industry, and may include design of furniture, bicycles, handcrafted products and accessories, air conditioners, and any other products manufactured locally. While the ideal situation is to provide industry collaboration for the students, in situations where industry collaboration proves to be challenging, this project can be simulated by proposing a design brief of a ‘fictitious’ company, which should be based on similar local companies.
Course ID: PRDSG 405
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 4 | 7 | 7 | PRDSG 401 |
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