Located in a design-research studio context you will undertake a complex design project with supervision by academic staff members, and in collaboration with peers. You will concurrently research and develop design speculations and solutions to a self-defined set of questions culminating in a refined design proposition that will be presented through a variety of mediums. Alongside your design development activities you will produce a comprehensive body of design-research documentation that describes your particular inquiry including: the key ideas, literature and case studies within that field; the methods by which you undertake design research and practice; and, the specific knowledge you generate through it.

This is a capstone course and the design research and development undertaken forms the methodological and practical foundation for the next phase of your design project in Design Honours Project 2.

This is a core course in the BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program.