VCE Units 1 & 2 - Product Design and Technology: Wood or Textiles
VCE Units 1 & 2 - Product Design and Technology: Wood or Textiles
Overview
In VCE Product Design and Technologies students are designer-makers who design solutions that are innovative and ethical. As designer-makers, they learn about the design industry, teamwork and the collaborative nature of teams, entrepreneurial activities, innovative technologies and enterprise. The development of designed solutions requires speculative, critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, numeracy, literacy, and technacy. Students participate in problem-based design approaches that trial, test, evaluate, critique and iterate product solutions. Students prototype and test using a variety of materials, tools and processes. Throughout the process of designing and testing, students learn that innovative and ethical solutions come from constructive failure and intentional evaluation.
Unit 1: Design Practices
In this area of study, students focus on the first diamond in the Double Diamond design approach to investigate and define needs and/or opportunities. They propose graphical product concepts using visualisations, design options and working drawings. This gives them the opportunity to demonstrate design thinking that incorporates critical, creative and speculative thinking.
Areas of Study:
- Developing and conceptualising designs
- Generating, designing and producing
Unit 2: Positive impacts for end users
In this area of study, student engage with a variety of human and/or non-human end user scenarios and research current products that cater for the specific needs of end users. They explore opportunities to work collaboratively with end users to create positive impacts and minimise harm by supporting increased belonging, access, usability and/or equity through inclusive product design.
Areas of Study:
- Opportunities for positive impacts for end users
- Designing for positive impacts for end users
- Cultural influences on design
Forms of Assessment
Compiling and developing a SAT folio based on Double Dimond design approach, Producing a practical project based on the SAT folio
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Students would be expected to have satisfied the work requirements of one Year 10 Design and Technology subject.