Design for Occupation 2

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Use appropriate literature to support the design concept and identify potential risks and risk management strategies.
• Analyse the design product to establish its sustainability and usability for the identified user group.

• Further development of the design concepts introduced in year 1 with specific application to a design project
• Practice in searching, selecting and applying evidence to support design ideas and processes
• Contact with specialists in a range of organisations in order to develop understanding of design principles within a therapeutic context
• Opportunities to explore/use a range of tools to identify the ways in which design enables or inhibits occupational engagement for populations/groups, taking account of sustainability principles
• Completion of specific tasks/activities in groups in order to develop collaborative team working skills
• Group work to design an environment/artefact/system to enhance occupational engagement, health and well being for specified service user groups
• Development of an information stand for a showcase event, illustrating your design concept

Teaching and learning methods

This module builds on Level 4 OCCT 1032 Design for Occupation I. Please refer back to the reading materials and resources on your Blackboard site as these will be relevant here also.

Lectures/workshops to review, develop and apply design principles learnt at level four.

Self-directed learning and research to develop understanding of wider principles of design in preparation for project work.

Collaborative project work in teams and with outside agencies to complete selected projects and take part in reflection and peer review processes.

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

Jacobs K (2007). Ergonomics for Therapists. Mosby.

Karwowski, W (2011). Human factors and ergonomics in consumer product design. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis.

Conway, M (2008). Occupational therapy and inclusive design: Principles for practice. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Christiansen, CH., Baum, CM., & Bass-Haugen, J. (2015). Occupational therapy: Performance, participation and well-being. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Incorporated.

Farrelly L (2014). Designing for the Third Age: Architecture Redefined for a Generation of ‘Active Agers’. New Jersey: Wiley.

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.

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 Information

Repeat type: External