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Applied Design Thinking (ABPL90426)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Term 1
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
| Availability | Term 1 - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
How might design thinking strategies help you resolve complex, ill-defined and changing issues within the built environment? In this subject you will apply design thinking techniques to understand and empathise with the end user, then to define, ideate, prototype and test solutions to complex problems. Traditional linear approaches to problem solving will be replaced with generative and hands-on strategies aimed at opening up possibilities for testing. Analysing and synthesising information will help iteratively define the problem issues. Co-design strategies and alternative ways to view and resolve problems will reveal and challenge assumptions. Whether you come from a design or non-design background, this subject will open new possibilities for complex problem solving by applying critical and creative design thinking approaches.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Apply iterative design thinking strategies for complex problem solving.
- Experiment, disrupt paradigms, and work creatively towards transformative solutions within unpredictable settings.
- Identify ideas for how space might improve health and wellbeing.
- Present effectively using compelling arguments and appropriate design nomenclature mixing word and visual communication.
Generic skills
- Applying design thinking skills to built environment issues.
- Cognitive skills to review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge, forming arguments from conflicting evidence;
- Using divergent thinking and experimentation to explore complex issues and suggest possible solutions;
- Use design thinking to generate and evaluate complex ideas
- Time management and planning through organising workloads and substantial projects.
- Presenting effectively using compelling arguments and appropriate design nomenclature.
- Teamwork through online discussions and peer feedback.
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Contribution to discussion board
| Throughout the teaching period | 15% |
Collation of design-thinking practices from literature
| Week 2 | 15% |
Scenario/design artefact development based on practice-oriented research
| Week 4 | 20% |
Project examining applied design practice in an approved topic
| Week 8 | 50% |
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Dates & times
- Term 1 - Online
Coordinator Kirsten Day Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 22 January 2024 Pre teaching requirements In week 0 students familiarise themselves with the online platform, resources and meet the instructors/tutors and each other in an online discussion (6 hours). Teaching period 29 January 2024 to 24 March 2024 Last self-enrol date 23 January 2024 Census date 16 February 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 March 2024 Assessment period ends 31 March 2024 Term 1 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
What do these dates mean
Visit this webpage to find out about these key dates, including how they impact on:
- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
- Completion rate. Students who started their course from 2022 and are in a CSP or receiving a HELP Loan (eg FEE-HELP) must meet the completion rate to continue to receive Commonwealth Support for that course.
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement, and as a fail toward the completion rate, unless there are approved ‘special circumstances’.
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 10 November 2023