Designing Environments (ENVS10004)

This subject provides an introduction to how people identify needs and wants and devise ways of satisfying them through built or engineered manipulation of the environment. Students will consider the antecedents, processes, actors and consequences of designing constructed and engineered environments, systems and artefacts. Issues of movement and perception, environmental behaviour and the responsible use of physical environmental systems will be explored. The subject will address:

• Design processes and methods, including problem-solving and design proposal perspectives, methods of framing and analysis of design tasks, creative thinking, and methods of synthesis and
  representation of design outcomes
• Case studies of various scales and times to examine designed outcomes with regard to social, cultural, economic, resource, production and actor relationships
• Design professions: their history in the production of environments, systems and artefacts, and their differing educations, organisation and practices