DEB 100 Design and Sustainability DESIGN INTERVENTION ASSIGNMENT 3 - BRIEF D E B 1 0 0 2 0 1 7 ` SUMMARY Introduction: This assessment builds upon your Reflective Journal and the exemplar you researched for your Case Study to create a visual representation of a redirective design intervention. Use this Design Intervention to reflect on your semester and to think about future alternatives and sustainable design. You are to take your alternative or redirective design (Design Intervention) and put it into visual form. You will find this assessment much more rewarding if you attend the tutorials and lectures that address this assessment specifically. Please use this opportunity to explore your passion for sustainable design, to think outside of the box, and to use the skills of systems and creative design thinking to address the subject of your design intervention. Format Prepare a professional looking, interesting design intervention using the platform Prezi: https://prezi.com/. Weighting: This assignment is worth 35% of your mark this semester. Due date and format: This assignment is due Week 11, May 19th, 2017 by 8:00 am. Please submit a PDF document on blackboard including your name, student number, link to your Prezi and a screenshot of your Prezi. Learning objectives: On completion of this assessment you should be able to, at an introductory level: 1. Apply the processes of reflective practice and critical thinking to your learning about sustainability and its implications for design. 2. Describe and communicate, sustainable environmental, economic, social and cultural issues. 3. Locate, evaluate, and synthesise information from a variety of sources using a selected range of academic and professional techniques. 4. Write for specific academic and design industry applications taking into account audience, purpose and context. D E B 1 0 0 2 0 1 7 Step 1 : Understanding what is meant by design redirection For this assignment, it is essential to understand what is meant by design redirection/design as redirective practice. Your understanding must be demonstrated in your submission. Your design intervention must be based on what you have learnt this semester and use both critical thinking and systems thinking. Attending both lectures and tutorials, as well as reading the recommended resources for this assignment is essential to your understanding of these key notions. Step 2: Applying Design redirection to your exemplar Your design intervention must make a significant contribution towards improving/redirecting your chosen exemplar in relation to/towards sustainability. Your intervention should move beyond superficial modifications and use critical thinking. Through this intervention, you must address the real issues, root of the problems relating to your exemplar, which you should have identified in Assignment 2 – Case Study report. Design redirection does not necessarily imply the making of new material “things”, and your design intervention is not a final product, final project, or definite solution. Rather, your intervention will present concept(s) and ideas based on, and supported by research. Remember that your intervention can be as creative/radical/critical as needed as long as it is based on your learnings and research. In some cases, the original exemplar may be completely transformed. Examples will be provided during the tutorial in Week 9 and you will have the opportunity to discuss your ideas with your tutors in Week 9 and/or 10. Step 3: Formatting your Assignment, Your design intervention will be presented graphically through an interactive presentation, using Prezi. Your presentation can use images, sketches, figures and diagrams, videos, and text. You have the option of either using text weaved into your Prezi (500 words) or recorded voice over (5 minutes presentation – with added textual elements if needed). Process D E B 1 0 0 2 0 1 7 Resources: Gavin Sade’s lecture on Design Redirection: • https://mediawarehouse.qut.edu.au/QMW/player/?dID=3372 3&dDocName=QMW_029108 Recommended readings: • Fry, T. 2007, "Redirective Practice: An Elaboration", Design Philosophy Papers, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 5-20. Available here: https://qut.summon.serialssolutions.com/?spellcheck=true& q=redirective+practice#!/search?ho=t&l=enAU&q=redirective%20practice • Fry, T. 2009, Design futuring: sustainability, ethics and new practice, Chapter 5, Australian edn, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. Available on blackboard under Learning resources – QUT readings Prezi tutorials: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVaJuTYKss • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWY3MXCBI9g&feature =youtu.be References: Use academic resources, cite all sources used for gaining information, images and so on. Use QUT Harvard style. Refer to Citewrite (http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/) for further information. Breadth and Depth of Research