C10323v1 Bachelor of Design in Integrated Product Design Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation
Award(s): Bachelor of Design in Integrated Product Design (BDesign)Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCIInn)
UAC code: 609545 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 079753F
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 240
Course EFTSL: 5
Location: City campus
Notes
From 2018, this course will be renamed the Bachelor of Design in Product Design Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.
Overview
Course aims
Course intended learning outcomes
Career options
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Other information
Overview
Integrated product design expands on the traditional field of industrial design to reflect the changed realities of the globalised design profession. The course offers a practice-based approach to learning through the integration of digital and analogue technologies across the broad field of integrated product design, as well as the potential for specialisation within highly contemporary and innovative integrated product design practices.
Taking a trans-disciplinary approach, the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation utilises multiple perspectives from diverse fields, integrating a range of industry experiences, real-world projects and self-initiated proposals, equipping graduates to address the wicked problems, complex challenges and untapped opportunities in today's world.
Integrated product design expands on the traditional field of industrial design to reflect the changing realities of the globalised design profession. With a strong emphasis on creativity and technology, the course equips students with the capacity to form an integrated approach and understanding of how to conceptualise, visualise and realise products, services and/or systems as a design professional. The program offers students the option to pursue a sub-major in interaction design.
By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world, including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own, across and between other disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate across a rapidly accelerating world of change.
Course aims
The course aims to support and foster a creative and explorative attitude toward the design process. It equips its graduates with the ability to effectively function on the international stage with ease and success, with the communication skills that allow them to operate across cultures, languages and location.
The course takes an experimental and hybrid approach to the integration of networked digital technologies into the design of products and systems. Students gain an integrated approach and understanding of how to conceptualise, visualise and realise products, services and/or systems as a design professional.
Innovation and experimentation is underpinned by theoretical, historical and contextual studies to facilitate students' development in both the conceptual and technical design skills required to work within the broader integrated product design field, and its specialist areas.
Throughout each stage, the course requires students to develop an understanding of their own design language and theoretical position in relation to historic and contemporary contexts.
Course intended learning outcomes
| A.1 | Understanding and support of sustainable and ethical practices |
| A.2 | Reflective approach to design practice |
| A.3 | Understanding and appreciation for social benefit |
| A.4 | Demonstrated committed engagement |
| A.5 | Demonstrated consideration of the user perspective |
| A.6 | Value for local and international cultural diversity |
| C.1 | Ability to work in teams |
| C.2 | Effective written communication skills |
| C.3 | Effective oral communication skills |
| C.4 | Effective visual presentation skills |
| C.5 | Effective tangible 3D representation |
| C.6 | Ability to engage with other professions and disciplines |
| GA1.1 | Identify and represent the components and processes within complex systems and organise them within relational frameworks |
| GA1.2 | Select, apply and evaluate various techniques and technologies for investigating and interpreting complex systems |
| GA1.3 | Discern common qualities of complex systems and model their behaviour |
| GA1.4 | Generate insights from the creative translation of models and patterns across different systems |
| GA2.1 | Recognise the nature of open, complex, dynamic and networked problems |
| GA2.2 | Explore the relevance of patterns, frameworks, approaches and methods from different disciplines, professional practices or fields of inquiry for gaining insights into particular problems, proposals, practices, contexts and systems |
| GA2.3 | Analyse problem situations or contexts from multiple disciplinary or personal perspectives and integrate findings in creative and useful ways |
| GA2.4 | Test the value of different patterns, frameworks and methods for exploring and addressing complex challenges |
| GA2.5 | Interrogate and generate ways to create value and evaluate outcomes. |
| GA2.6 | Examine, test, appreciate and articulate the actual value of outcomes for different stakeholders, communities or cultures over time |
| GA3.1 | Communicate, explore, network and negotiate in ways that are inclusive of and mine for ideas from diverse disciplines |
| GA3.2 | Design, develop and apply appropriate team-based decision making frameworks and participate collaboratively in teams according to proposed intentions |
| GA3.3 | Use a range of appropriate media, tools, techniques and methods creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to discover, investigate, design, produce and communicate ideas or artefacts |
| GA3.4 | Articulate often-complex ideas simply, succinctly and persuasively to a diverse team or audience |
| GA3.5 | Create environments to support inspiration and reflexivity so that inter- and trans-disciplinary practices can develop and thrive |
| GA3.6 | Recognise problems, challenges and opportunities that require transdisciplinary practices and assemble relevant teams to begin dealing with those problems, challenges and opportunities |
| GA4.1 | Identify significant issues, challenges or opportunities and assess potential to act creatively and ethically on them |
| GA4.2 | Design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment that engage with and respond respectfully, generatively and analytically to different ways of knowing across community and cultural contexts |
| GA4.3 | Make decisions that recognise the humanity of others by engaging ethically and sensitively to the values of particular groups, communities, organisations or cultures |
| GA4.4 | Exercise good judgment in knowing when to take a leadership role, and when to enable leadership by others to address community, organisational or cultural issues, challenges and opportunities through innovation |
| GA5.1 | Imagine and design initiatives within existing organisational structures (intrapreneurship) or build a new context for change (entrepreneurship) |
| GA5.2 | Explore and articulate the transformation required to create and implement innovation, with sensitivity to the creative destruction that this requires |
| GA5.3 | Identify required capabilities for realising an idea and create a venture team to achieve the aspirations of a particular innovation |
| GA5.4 | Communicate confidently and with diplomacy to influence essential stakeholders or decision makers and to achieve impact |
| I.1 | Demonstrated ability for problem setting and problem solving |
| I.2 | Exploration, experimentation and innovation in the design process |
| I.3 | Outcomes that advance the prior art |
| I.4 | Demonstration of versatility, curiosity and imagination |
| I.5 | Development of an original aesthetic sensibility |
| I.6 | Demonstration of ability to integrate appropriate technologies |
| P.1 | Ability to demonstrate industry specific analogue and digital skills |
| P.2 | Understanding of global context of design practice |
| P.3 | Demonstration of effective time management |
| P.4 | Understanding of business frameworks and processes |
| P.5 | Ability to demonstrate self directed learning |
| P.6 | Demonstrated accuracy, rigour and care |
| R.1 | Ability to use a variety of research methods |
| R.2 | Ability to develop reasoned arguments |
| R.3 | Ability to analyse and synthesise complex ideas |
| R.4 | Academic referencing skills |
| R.5 | Ability to demonstrate reflective critical analysis |
Career options
Career options include In-house designer with large multinationals and small boutique manufacturers, industrial designer, interaction designer, furniture, lighting or homewares designer, sport and leisure product designer, smart object, system and service designer, medical, health and scientific product designer and self-employed design entrepreneur.
By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximise the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
Admission to the combined degree is on merit according to the admissions policy for the Bachelor of Design in Integrated Product Design.
Students must refer to the inherent requirements for all degrees offered by Design and Architecture in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Course duration and attendance
This course is offered on a four-year, full-time basis.
Course structure
Students must complete 240 credit points, comprising 144 credit points in integrated product design and 96 credit points in creative intelligence and innovation. The creative intelligence and innovation subjects are undertaken in accelerated form within July and Summer sessions during the first three years of study, and through one full year of study after completion of the professional degree. The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is not offered as a separate degree, but is completed only in combination with the professional degree program.
Industrial training/professional practice
Within the final year of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation, students can undertake between 6 and 12 credit points of internship (work experience) that relates to innovation within their research, career development, or core degree specialisations. For students undertaking 12 credit points of internship, international internships may be negotiated.
Course completion requirements
| STM90788 Core subjects | 96cp | |
| CBK90242 Sub-major/Electives (DAB) | 24cp | |
| CBK90871 Sub-major/Options | 24cp | |
| STM90839 Core subjects (Creative Intelligence and Innovation) | 96cp | |
| Total | 240cp |
Course program
A typical program is shown below.
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 84610 Inside Design | 6cp | |
| 84111 Understanding Three-dimensional Form | 6cp | |
| 84116 Integrated Product Design Communication A | 6cp | |
| 85502 Researching Design History | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81511 Problems to Possibilities | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 84611 Design Thinking in Integrated Product Design | 6cp | |
| 84117 Integrated Product Design Communication B | 6cp | |
| 84118 Informing Integrated Product Design | 6cp | |
| 85503 Design Thinking | 6cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 81512 Creative Practice and Methods | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 84711 User-centred Design | 12cp | |
| 84710 Research Methods in Integrated Product Design | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81513 Past, Present, Future of Innovation | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 85202 Interdisciplinary Lab A | 6cp | |
| Select 12 credit points from the following: | 12cp | |
| CBK90871 Sub-major/Options | 24cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 81514 Creativity and Complexity | 8cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 85302 Interdisciplinary Lab B | 6cp | |
| 84811 Smart Design | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81515 Leading Innovation | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 84813 Integrated Product Design Professional Communication | 6cp | |
| Select 12 credit points from the following: | 12cp | |
| CBK90871 Sub-major/Options | 24cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 81516 Initiatives and Entrepreneurship | 8cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 81521 Envisioning Futures | 6cp | |
| Select one of the following: | 6cp | |
| 81522 Innovation Internship A | 6cp | |
| 81523 Speculative Start-Up | 6cp | |
| 81531 Innovation Capstone: Research and Development | 12cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 81524 Professional Practice at the Cutting Edge | 6cp | |
| 81525 Innovation Internship B | 6cp | |
| 81532 Innovation Capstone: Realisation and Transformation | 12cp | |
Other information
Further information is available from:
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