3 Design and Product Development
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr N. Padavatan.
Students will continue to expand and develop their product or architectural design skills allowing them to showcase their talents and exhibit their work. The design process will be extensively applied to situations requiring design solutions and students will have the opportunity to improve their computer aided design work, visual communication and drawing skills.
Course Overview
Term 1
Topic: Sports and Recreation Center
Assessment: A.S. 91608 v3 Generic Technology 3.1 - Undertake brief development to address an issue within a determined context.
Students to research and investigate sports and recreation centers. Students to write a report of their new re-designed sports and recreation center that is fit for purpose.
Term 2
Topic: Sports and Recreation Center
Assessment A.S. 91627 v3 Design and Visual Communication 3.30 - Initiate design ideas through exploration.
Student to choose a sea creature and use exploration techniques to redesign a sports and recreation center.
Term 3
Topic: Sports and Recreation Center
Assessment: A.S. 91629 v3 Design and Visual Communication 3.32 - Resolve a spatial design through graphics practice
Students to produce a portfolio of work with different concepts of their proposed sports and recreation center.
Term 4
Prepare portfolio work for externals.
Recommended Prior Learning
Students should have taken 2 DPD or 2ART.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Equipment: A3 visual diary
Pathway
Architecture, technical design and mapping may be for you if you are interested in:
creating, designing and planning products, urban areas, or structures such as buildings or boats
preparing plans, drawings, models or maps
analysing and interpreting information
using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Generic Technology 3.1 - Undertake brief development to address an issue within a determined context
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.30 - Initiate design ideas through exploration
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.32 - Resolve a spatial design through graphics practice
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 14
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
Pathway Possibilities
Industrial Designer, User Experience Designer, Software Developer, Architect, Architectural Technician, Boat Builder, Naval Architect, Surveyor, Urban/Regional Planner, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering Technician/Draughtsperson, Interior Designer, Conservator, Quantity Surveyor, Systems Administrator, Information Technology Architect, Landscape Architect, Landscaper, Project Manager, Roofer, Network Administrator,