Digital Media Design and Place
Unit code: HDDV671
| Credit points | 12.5 Credit Points |
| Duration | 1 semester |
| Contact hours | 36 hours per semester |
| Campus | Online, Prahran |
| Prerequisites | HDG530 Research Methods for Design HDG531 Fundamental Design Studio |
Related course(s)
An elective unit of study in the Specialisation titled Digital Visual Culture and Imaging, offered onsite and online within the Masters of Design (Communication Design), Graduate Diploma of Design (Communication Design), Master of Design (Digital Media Design) and Graduate Diploma of Design (Digital Media Design) programs.
NOTE: This unit is offered subject to student enrolment numbers.
Aims and objectives
This unit will be offered subject to student enrolment numbers.
This unit encourages students to articulate their practice in social and site-specific ways, by working closely with community
partners. By working with site-specific pieces, ideas of exhibition, space and place, virtual reality, and contemporary locative media,
students are directed to explore several contemporary principles of digital media design.
partners. By working with site-specific pieces, ideas of exhibition, space and place, virtual reality, and contemporary locative media,
students are directed to explore several contemporary principles of digital media design.
On completing this unit of study, students should be able to:
• Liaise with venues and commercial partners;
• Fabricate and organise projects in meaningful and site-specific ways;
• Understand how digital media have impacted on our urban and social experience through design;
• Resolve their work in relation to critical notions of space, place and identity.
• Liaise with venues and commercial partners;
• Fabricate and organise projects in meaningful and site-specific ways;
• Understand how digital media have impacted on our urban and social experience through design;
• Resolve their work in relation to critical notions of space, place and identity.
Teaching methods
On average, students are expected to spend twelve and a half hours (formal contact time plus independent study time) per week ona 12.5 credit point unit of study. This may vary if the unit is delivered in intensive mode. This unit is delivered through lecture and
tutorial face-to-face and/or online. It includes group discussions, site visits, interviews, seminar presentations.
Assessment
Essays and literature reviews I: Project proposal and presentation Individual 40%
Folio I: Final Project Work and Documentation Individual 60%
Folio I: Final Project Work and Documentation Individual 60%
Generic skills outcomes
Since key generic skills align with undergraduate learning, this postgraduate unit will provide students with feedback on progress inattaining the following graduate attributes:
Capable in their chosen professional, vocational or study areas
Able to apply the principles of sustainability to life and work
Effective, collegial and ethical in work and community situations
Adaptable and able to manage change
Aware and respectful of local and international environments in which they will be contributing (e.g. sociocultural, economic, natural)
Knowledgeable of the scholarship related to their chosen professional, vocational or study areas
Content
The unit is structured around several interrelated themes and topics:• Digital culture;
• Critical notions of space and place;
• The theories of Michel de Certeau, Bruno Latour & David Harvey;
• Site-specific work and new exhibition contexts;
• Public art;
• Location-based media and new media mapping.
