Course Title: Atelier

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Atelier

Credit Points: 12.00


Course Coordinator: Malte Wagenfeld

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Course Coordinator Email: malte.wagenfeld@rmit.edu.au

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Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None


Course Description

Atelier provides you an opportunity to learn through undertaking practical and theoretical design projects that deal with questions of aesthetics, materiality and the design process as modes of cultural production. Situated in the trans-disciplinary intersections between design practice, technology, sustainable and social systems, art making, and contemporary craft, this course places significant emphasis on the combination of traditional and emerging design methods and form and fabrication techniques. Each semester an expert in a particular field of design practice will offer an immersion into their modes of design activity, within which you will develop your own process of design exploration, reasoning and prototyping.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

  


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: 

1) Deploy analytical thinking and translate concepts through a well reasoned design outcomes and methods 

2) Aquire and apply specialist technical knowledge and skills in a trans-disciplinary design project context  

3) Approach unfamiliar design processes with creativity and a willingness to connect theory a practice. 

4) Articulate your design ideas in a range of mediums.  

5) Critically reflect on your learning to inform future actions.  


Overview of Learning Activities

Delivered in a design studio format, you will actively learn through a variety of face-to-face, self-directed and online activities. This course immerses you in specific aspects of the discipline and its methods and practices through doing design projects. These projects involve a range of planned learning experiences including: individual and group problem solving; sketch ideation and the iterative development of design concepts; prototyping for the purpose of further refining propositions; realizing material design artefacts within workshop environments: and, presenting and reporting on individual and collective learning. The design studio format gives you the opportunity to explore and apply social, contextual, technical, and theoretical design issues in depth and through a variety of approaches, principles, real and simulated situations, and practical constraints.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. 

To effectively participate in coursework, either on or away from campus, you are advised to obtain (as a minimum) the following: 

  • Drawing Supplies including visual diaries, pens, pencils, markers and ancillary products and consumables. 
  • Personal Protective Equipment including protective eye-wear, ear plugs, a dust jacket, and closed toe safety shoes 
  • Prototyping Supplies, materials and consumables. 
  • Design and Documentation Equipment including a personal computer of an appropriate specification, course specific software.  

When on campus you will have access to and will utilise the School of Design workshop facilities, specialist computer labs and software, and 2D and 3D printing facilities.  

Course specific resources such as readings, reference lists, access to specialist software, video demonstrations and class notes will be provided online.  

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. 

 Assessment Tasks 

 Assessment Task 1: Investigation and exploration, 10%, CLO 1 

Assessment Task 2: Design proposition, 20%, CLO 1, 3, 4 

Assessment Task 3: Project delivery 30%, CLO 1, 2, 3, 4  

Assessment Task 4: Project documentation 40%, CLO 1, 5 

 Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

 If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions