Product Design and Technologies is about designing and making things in an era of sustainability and user experience, both individually and collaboratively. This subject offers a unique focus on creativity through the development and production of innovative and ethical products. Exploring your creativity while developing skills in organisation, planning and communication. You will be exploring and making in both Units 1&2, and investigating how others go about designing and making so your work is influenced by others and not done in isolation.
Some images of jewellery made by middle school students at Princes Hill.
You will be learning about all elements of the design process and the role of the designer in society while designing and making jewellery. This has a particular emphasis on user experience and sustainable design into the future. You will develop a design folio which contains all the essential information, designing and planning necessary to make an object in your chosen materials. There will be time for investigation, class discussion and getting assistance from your teacher. There is also time to support the making of objects by learning how to use tools, equipment and learn new processes. There is about a 50/50 division between practical and theory work.
You will be expected to support your work in the classroom by doing some designing and planning at home. There will also be some written, investigation tasks for you to complete. Some class time will be allocated for this, but most will need to be done at home. Time allocation will vary, but approximately 2 hours each week should be planned for.
To obtain an 'S' in Product Design and Technologies you need to show you have met the 'Outcomes' for both Units 1 and 2. The Outcomes relate directly to the work you do in class and at home. You will meet the Outcomes by satisfactorily developing a Design Folio and making the product planned in it.
By the end of the unit, you should demonstrate you can design and plan, using the Design Process, the development of a product. This will include using manual and digital technologies to visualize your design and refine your product concepts.
By the end of this unit, you will have made your product. The process to arrive here will include skill and technique exploration, and materials trialing by selecting and applying materials, tools, equipment and processes to make your product. Students will be able to work collaboratively and in teams through trialing, implementation of production and reflection stages.
On completion of this outcome you will be able to investigate and critique products using the factors that influence design, to make judgments about the success or failure of the products to support positive impacts for end users. You will explore the role of designers across a number of industries/specializations and how they develop products with consideration to usability, consumer needs and sustainability.
On completion of this unit the student will be able to design and make an inclusive product that responds to a need or opportunity of an end user(s) that addresses positive impacts in relation to belonging, access, usability and/or equity.
VCAA Product Design and Technologies
VCE Product Design and Technologies offers students a range of relevant practical and applied experiences that can support future career pathways in design fields. VCE Product Design and Technologies offers students a unique focus on creativity through the development and production of innovative and ethical products. Students work with a variety of materials, tools and processes to develop their capacities and they employ innovative and ethical practices as they practice design. All of this contributes to the real-life industry relevance of this course. There are two elements to the assessment for Unit 1 & Unit 2: A design folio that contains a design brief, evaluation criteria, research, design options, working drawings, production plan and an evaluation report. A completed product with records of production and modification. |