Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Use appropriate literature to support the design concept and identify potential risks and risk management strategies.
- Demonstrate effective team working with peers and collaborative approaches with your external partner organisation to design a system, environment or artefact, ensuring a participative design process where possible.
- Demonstrate creative problem solving, ergonomic and occupational analyses to identify a design issue within an organisation, which impacts service user occupational engagement, health and/or wellbeing.
- Analyse the design product to establish its sustainability and usability for the identified user group.
- Evaluate the design process and design product using relevant outcome measures where appropriate, to identify the impact of the design for the target service user group.
- Work with peers and an external organisation (national or international) to create a system/environment/artefact which will enable or enhance occupational engagement by service users to improve health and wellbeing.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Practical classes and workshops | 9 |
| Independent Study | 154.5 |
| Lecture | 12 |
| Project supervision | 12 |
| Total study time | 187.5 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
You may find these journal resources useful (available from the library). Architectural Design Wiley online library Journal of Urban Design Taylor Francis online journal Journal of Design History Oxford Journals online British Journal of Occupational Therapy Ergonomics Applied Ergonomics Access by Design: The Journal of the Centre for Accessible Environments
Internet Resources
University of Cambridge Inclusive Design Toolkit University of Cambridge Engineering Design Centre.
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at:.
Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors (I’DGO) at:.
Textbooks
Farrelly L (2014). Designing for the Third Age: Architecture Redefined for a Generation of ‘Active Agers’. New Jersey: Wiley.
Conway, M (2008). Occupational therapy and inclusive design: Principles for practice. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Jacobs K (2007). Ergonomics for Therapists. Mosby.
Karwowski, W (2011). Human factors and ergonomics in consumer product design. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis.
Christiansen, CH., Baum, CM., & Bass-Haugen, J. (2015). Occupational therapy: Performance, participation and well-being. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Incorporated.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
If an attempt is taken in the supplementary period, the submission will follow the referral method.Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Group Poster Presentation
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Feedback on the risk assessment and timeline will be provided to each project group ahead of the showcase. Verbal feedback from showcase visitors.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: Yes
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Poster Presentation | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: External