Design for Communities

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• How your discipline integrates and socially engages with communities and the wider civic society

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Manage workloads accommodating feedback, change and uncertainty

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse, collate and manage sourced data and research to inform and underpin your decisions

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply a range of increasingly advanced and independent design methods and technical skills appropriate to communication intention

Indicative content on this module includes Contemporary Issues • Working with society and communities on industry relevant interventions • equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) • sustainability • civic engagement • ethnographic response to different audiences • User experience, social innovation, service design • professional communication strategies, • ‘making to make a difference’ and designing for the common good Industry facing in style • experience what it is like to work with intersectional publics • have an opportunity to experience interdisciplinary working situations • explore modes of communication that serves these Ethnographic in method • define what a community holds in common • determine how you will design with them for the common good • co-creation as intellectual property Collaborate • research, develop, and write a proposal rooted in its user outcomes • research similar initiatives, • ethnographically know your users, • be responsive (and responsible) to them in your design concepts Design for outcomes • Work in this module is case study based, reflective, and exploratory • You will consider the critical contexts of designing for communities • Produce work that is both collaborative yet self-directed • test, develop, and refine ideas for prototypes • present a design for a community that reflects your critical and professional journey • hone your ethical awareness, • design for a community’s need • work with critical issue related to your future employability and practice • should showcase your ethnographic research, your ethics and your co-collaboration • make resilient design choices • realise your product’s value in use • cope with production implications in real-life situations • develop confidence in professional communication • make collaborative designs accessible and relatable to the publics you serve.

Teaching methods include, but are not limited to • Research methods workshops • Group tutorials and discussions • Visual presentations • Critical reviews • Lectures • Seminars • Project briefings • Guest lectures • Creative and Technical workshops Learning activities include, but are not limited to: • Creative development • Ethical Co-design • Presentations • Peer group learning • Public collaboration • Industry site visit • Group critique • Self‑assessment and reflective practice

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Feedback on project brief. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.