Design Project - focus experiment
- Faculty
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
- Version
Version 1 of 24.02.2025.
- Module identifier
11B0600
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
10.0
- Module frequency
only summer term
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
The ability to carry out more complex design tasks is a basic requirement for working as a designer. As part of the course, one focus of the training is on the development of analytical skills and the ability to think experimentally and transformatively.
Designers are often confronted with the challenge of coming up with something new, especially considering the proximity of design to the disciplines of fashion, ergonomics, psychology, and the social sciences.
The special ability of designers is to think in new ways and to break through conventional procedures in order to develop and implement innovative concepts.
Of course, the topic of "sustainability" plays a major role in the development of these innovative concepts and is consistently integrated into the iterative design process.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
A socially relevant task, project definition, benchmark, research, analysis, technical concept, sustainability, draft, elaboration, evaluation, iterative design development, presentation, and documentation.
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 300 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 4 Individual coaching - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 40 Study of literature - 180 Other project work 76 Reception of other media or sources -
- Graded examination
- Project Report, written
- Remark on the assessment methods
The written project report is supplemented by an interim presentation.
- Exam duration and scope
The written project report is at least 30 pages long.
- Recommended prior knowledge
Attendance of all modules of semesters 1-4 of the Industrial Product Design study program.
- Knowledge Broadening
The students are able to develop and document a project with a focus on experimental product development. They can also professionally display and present the results of their work.
- Knowledge deepening
The students acquire the competence of an innovative and independent way of thinking in terms of aesthetics, sustainability, system functionality, and product realization.
They are able to think in an interdisciplinary manner and to find innovative solutions.
- Application and Transfer
The students have acquired strong skills to approach any technical issue creatively and practically and to develop efficient and sustainable solutions based on theoretical knowledge and practical experiments.
You have gained extensive skills in the areas of experimental idea and concept development and the development of your own methodological skills for finding solutions. You have skills for cross-media work, conception, and visualization.
- Communication and Cooperation
The students have the competence to convincingly present ideas, concepts and products in writing and images, as well as rhetorically differentiated in an interdisciplinary context.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
The students are able to develop and document a project with a focus on experimental product development. They can also professionally display and present the results of their work.
The students can critically reflect on their own role as participants in the product development process, which enables effective synergetic work of all disciplines involved in the process (primarily industrial product design and engineering).
- Literature
Holger van den Boom u. Felicidad Romero-Tejedor, Design – Zur Praxis des Entwerfens, Hildesheim u. New York 2000.
Marion Godau, Produktdesign – Eine Einführung mit Beispielen aus der Praxis, Basel u. Boston 2003.
Maximilian Eibl, Harald Reiterer, Peter Friedrich Stephan u. Frank Thissen, Knowledge Media Design: Theorie, Methodik, Praxis, München u. a. 2006.
Georg A. Winkelhofer, Kreativ managen: Ein Leitfaden für Unternehmer, Manager und Projektleiter, Berlin 2006.
Deutscher Manager-Verband e. V. (Hrsg.), Handbuch Soft Skills Band 3, Methodenkompetenz, Band 3, Zürich 2004.
Evelyn Boos, Das große Buch der Kreativitätstechniken, München 2007.
Anne Brunner, Kreativer denken: Konzepte und Methoden von A-Z, München 2008.
Rob Eastaway u. Stephanie Ehrenschwendner, Kreatives Denken: 101 Wege neue Ideen zu Entwickeln, Köln 2009.
- Linkage to other modules
The students are prepared for the module "Design project experiment" by the modules in semesters 1-4 of the study program Industrial Product Design.
At the same time, the module offers the possibility of an early scientific examination of a question in a design context, as preparation for the "scientific practical project" and the "Bachelor's thesis and the colloquium".
A scientific discussion takes place in industrial product design, e.g. B. by applying the methodical design process (networked and iterative).
- Applicability in study programs
- Industrial Product Design
- Industrial Product Design B.A. (01.09.2024)
- Person responsible for the module
- Dziubiel, Marian
- Further lecturer(s)
alle Lehrenden des ID