2010 | Semester 1 | Elective Industrial Design | Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing
y Design RP Jeweller Jewellery
Participants from ‘fine art gold & silversmithing’ and ‘industrial design’ will share skills, combining the traditional craft of jewellery making with digital manufacturing techniques to design and create a range of reproducible jewellery. The theme of the finished pieces will be to design wearable jewellery that showcases rapid prototyping techniques by demonstrating the concept of negative space. The design process will be approached from two different perspectives; in particular industrial design students will pass on knowledge of innovative manufacturing techniques, while Gold & Silversmithing students will share trade specific technical skills. The approach will include methods such as sketching, mockups, traditional jewellery fabrication and rapid prototyping. On a practical level the School of Architecture & Design and SIAL will provide rapid prototyping facilities; while the School of Fine Art will provide specialised jewellery making labs and casting facilities. Finished works are required and students will have to meet costs of outsourcing some rapid prototyping and materials. It is recommended that students enrol in this and the ‘RP Jewellery CAD’ elective offered as a combined double elective. Wiki: http://wiki.sial.rmit.edu.au/student/RPJewellery/FrontPage
Lecturers: Brad Marmion Industrial Designer (MA) | SIAL Workshop Manager http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/bmarmion.php brad.marmion@rmit.edu.au
Class Times | Locations |
Wednesdays | 430 - 630 SIAL Presentation Space 9.3.02 (first class)
Mark Edgoose Fine Art Gold and Silversmithing mark.edgoose@rmit.edu.au
| Senior Lecturer
2010 | Semester 1 | Elective Industrial Design | Fine Art Gold & Silversmithing
Jewellery RP CAD CADJewellery The RP jewellery CAD elective is focused on learning Rhino with a flexible approach; it is for all students, from those who are at beginner’s level with rhino to those who are already working with rhinos advanced modelling techniques. Students will be designing Jewellery for rapid prototyping and it is recommended that the elective be taken in conjunction with the RP Jewellery Design elective as a double elective. This will enable time to engage in the design process and share interdisciplinary skills with Gold and Silversmithing students who will be doing RP jewellery in with the industrial design double elective. Learning outcomes will include parallels drawn with the student’s knowledge of any existing cad packages and an exploration of how to create complex forms that take advantage of the rhinos capabilities. Additionally, students will be introduced to parametric modelling in grasshopper, methods of modelling correctly for rapid prototyping and use of magics RP software, along with advanced use of Rapid Prototyping Equipment. Wiki: http://wiki.sial.rmit.edu.au/student/RPJewellery/FrontPage
Lecturers: Brad Marmion Industrial Designer (MA) | SIAL Workshop Manager http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/bmarmion.php brad.marmion@rmit.edu.au
Class Times | Locations |
Wednesdays | 630 - 830 SIAL Presentation Space 9.3.02 (first class) SIAL Computer Lab 10.11.24
Michael Wilson Industrial Designer | SIAL Reasearch Assistant michael.wilson@rmit.edu.au
RMIT INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ELECTIVE – SEMESTER ONE 2010 Made in Patriarchy- design, gender and sexuality
Cheryl Buckley’s famous 1989 essay ‘Made in Patriarchy” is the starting point for this studio. Buckley’s essay discusses why historically women are represented as consumers but not producers? Is this still so? Can you name 5 contemporary female Industrial Designers? No…If graduate numbers between males and females have been equal for 15 years at least- where are all the female Industrial Designers? Is Industrial Design a male-dominated profession? Does it matter? Are female Industrial Designers over represented in certain areas and virtually absent in others? Marketing and economic statistics suggest “The Female Economy” is the hugest consumer segment in the world, bigger than the power houses of China and India combined. Women are responsible for 80% of all purchasing decisions. Corporations are scrambling to identify what female consumers want and how to incorporate it into products and services. Does it matter if female designers are part of the product development process? Do women design differently? Are the ‘traditional’ production techniques of women looked down upon as ‘domestic’ crafts’. Women are the biggest consumer groups globally but are our products still made in patriarchy? As designers- do we blindly follow stereotypical representations of male and female gender constructions? Can we intervene in representing the status quo? Will we be making just political statements or can our investigations really create ‘better’ products and services for males or females? This studio is about gender in design and gender representations in designed products. You don’t have to be a ‘girl’ to do this studio….male students can use it as a starting point to explore their own research into gender representation. This is about exploring gender demographics beyond the stereo type of ‘boys like blue- girls like pink’. This is a design studio with a research component. Students will choose a topic of their choice to research and build a body of practical work based around that. This is a chance for students to experience a practical design research model and understand how research can work with design practice. The object of the research is to inform or influence your design work. Design outcomes will be presented as a body of conceptual work. Students may wish to work in fields outside of design such as photography or animation. Students may wish to follow a product design process, students may wish to draw or make models. Examples of previous research presentations and design project outcomes will be shown. Lecturer Judith Glover is completing a PHD in Industrial Design based on sex toys and the sex toy industry. She runs a small sex toy production company that exports globally that she has used as the practical outcome for her thesis. She will explain her PHD project and company in the first week of semester and propose a design research model for students to use or start their investigations.
Thursday 5:30 – 7:30 pm in Room 88.5.20 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ELECTIVE GRAP 2304, 2305, 2306, 1048
INTERRUPTION - Design outside the functional integrity of the object
* Michael Graves
* Jacques Carelman
INTERRUPTION: Design outside the functional integrity of the object is an practice that forces you, as the designer, to examine your object/s from a alternative perspective. Within this elective we will disregard the orthodoxies of design development, particularly the notion of ‘product’, function, and manufacture led design You will develop a method for process-orientated design development, which will be deployable into innovative new practices for design. This elective is orientated towards challenging your critical observation of “things” and enhancing your creative thinking and radical re-visioning potential. We will cross the accepted design boundaries into the unusual spaces and contexts outside our conventional territories: disregarding consumption, beyond studio practice, tapping new fields of imagination. "It's not the destination that matters, but the journey." -- unknown Ronnie Lacham ronnie.lacham@rmit.edu.au Industrial Design Elective Course codes GRAP2304-2306-1048 12 credit points Open to students enrolled in Industrial Design Electives 1- 4 Semester 1, 2010 Time: Tuesday 1:30pm – 3:30 pm Location: TBC Duration: 2 Hours per week for 12 Weeks.
future fibers10 is an elective that will focus on experimenting with fibers and yarns as your main source of materials in the creation of textiles. The course is hands on and will be focused on learning traditional techniques and applying them to create a range of samples and experiments. Scale and application are challenged and exploited, the idea of object, structure and experience are central challenges. You are encouraged to experiment with traditional and non‐traditional fibers and materials in conventional and unconventional applications. The weekly sessions will be largely practical where techniques are demonstrated and experiments are undertaken. Students will be encouraged to consider sustainable fibers, examining contrasts and possible contradictions in application and intent. Projects as objects/interventions/installations/experiments or other are defined by students and outcomes are negotiated with the course lecturer.
future fibers10
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Tuesday | 88.5 .17 | deanne koelmeyer
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN: OPEN ELECTIVE History Research Seminar: Semester 1, 2010 WEDNESDAY 3.30pm-5.30pm Building 10 Level 11 Room 27 Lecturer: Harriet Edquist
READING MELBOURNE: CRIME FICTION In this seminar we will seek to discover in a ‘book club’ setting how five key works of Melbourne crime fiction are inherently geographical and how, by using insights from the field of literary geography we can begin to understand fiction as a powerful spatial and urban discourse. Classes will alternate between general discussion of the novels and mapping their geo-spatial organisation. Students will have the opportunity to explore their own disciplinary focus in mapping exercises and essay format. GUEST LECTURE March 17: Prof. Cathy Cole, author of Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks
SET TEXTS Fergus Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 1888, any edition it’s still in print Shane Maloney, Nice Try, Text Publishing 1998 Lindy Cameron, Bleeding Hearts, Harper Collins 2001 Peter Temple, White Dog Text Publishing 2007 Garry Disher, Wyatt, Text Publishing 2010 These are available at Readers’ Feast, Readings, Angus & Robertson, Hill of Content etc COURSE CODES Architecture ARCH 1338 Master of Architecture Elective One ARCH 1339 Master of Architecture Elective Two ARCH 1340 Master of Architecture Elective Three
Industrial Design GRAP 2304 GRAP 2305 GRAP 2306 GRAP 104
Interior Design ARCH 1289 -1294
Landscape Architecture ARCH 1178 Elective One ARCH 1179 Elective Two ARCH 1180 Elective Three
Fashion GRAP 1066 Design Studies