DDD20004 Contemporary Design Issues

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• Title: Week 3 Written Response TASK - Promoting Designs for Development
• Individual Tutoring
• Assessment type: Academic essay
• Weighting: N/A
• Word count (or equivalent): Approx 350 words (word doc or pdf files only)
• Due date: Include date and time.
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• Feedback date: eg. 2 weeks after submission.
• Referencing style: APA 7
• Who will see your work? Teacher, Turnitin

Tutoring explanation

Design for Development is a way that designers can make a contribution to communities in terms of both the obvious tangible benefits design can bring and at least one ‘flow-on’ effect. Flow-on effects are benefits that are not necessarily planned or direct, but are real improvements to the lives of people who use these designs or learn from the campaigns. Read - critically and carefully. Skills - Creating an argument, integrating a quote, advocacy. Citing - using the APA style. Here is the link: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/studyhelp/referencing.htmLinks to an external site.

Task

Write a short article. Use the knowledge gained from reading about your example and Polak’s chapter to explain the design or campaign and its contribution to communities.

Instructions

1. Research an example of Design for Development from the list below. Read critically and carefully.
2. Write a short article. Use the knowledge gained from reading about your example and Polak’s chapter to explain the design or campaign and its contribution to communities in terms of both the obvious tangible benefits and at least one ‘flow-on’ effect. Flow-on effects are benefits that are not necessarily planned or direct, but are real improvements to the lives of people who use these designs or learn from the campaigns.
3. Select a relevant quote from this week’s set reading by Paul Polak to support your argument.

Polak, P. (2007). Design for the Other Ninety Percent, in C. Smith (Ed.). Design for the Other 90% (pp.19-25). Cooper-Hewitt/National Design Museum, Smithsonian.

https://commons.swinburne.edu.au/file/f9472fc2-4ad5-45e9-bc92-64c3ad033eb7/1/399271.pdf (Links to an external site.)

In class we have learned how to cite correctly using the APA style. Here is the link:

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/studyhelp/referencing.htmLinks to an external site.Links to an external site.

You can also contact our LAS experts for support.

4. Use the quote in support of your argument, it must not be a ‘floating quote’ but integrated within a paragraph. Use an APA in text reference to acknowledge the source of the quote. ie (Polak, 2007, p...). See Library for link to referencing styles.
5. Post an image. All images need to be numbered and have a caption explaining what the images is, and the source details (url) listed underneath each image. Again, we did this as an in-class exercise. Consider how good captions don’t describe what the reader can already see, but link the image to key ideas in the text. Also consider how captions encourage the audience to move from image to text by attracting their interest.
6. Edit carefully. While this is a very short piece of writing, it is all the more important that there are no errors in your English expression and spelling. Captions in academic writing must be complete sentences, not phrases. Use Grammarly or Grammarcheck and Spellcheck.
7. Include a Reference List of sources consulted. This also include the image sources. They all need to be in APA style and in alphabetical order. For a reminder about how to use in-text references, view the Library’s Referencing tool. Include this week's set text: Polak, P. (2007). Design for the Other Ninety Percent, in C. Smith (Ed.). Design for the Other 90% (pp.19-25). Cooper-Hewitt/National Design Museum, Smithsonian.
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Here are some examples to choose from.

Interior design:

Butaro Hospital, Rwanda

http://www.archdaily.com/165892/butaro-hospital-mass-design-group/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Meti ‘Hand-made’ School https://archello.com/project/handmade-school-in-bangladeshLinks to an external site.

Tebogo Home for Handicapped Children, South Africa - http://www.basehabitat.ufg.ac.at/pro_L.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Digital Media/Communication design:

Map Kibera project - http://www.mapkibera.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

M-Pesa Money Transfer System - http://www.designother90.org/solution/mpesa-moneytransfer-system/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

One Brand condom advertisement Thailandhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiEkEiJcKE&NR=1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Trust Condom Advertisement for Kenya

Extremely funny commercial - Trust condoms - (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

UNICEF Campaign for Handwashing (for India) -unicef handwash tvc india (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Viola Design's campaign for International Women's Development Agency.

See link https://violadesign.com.au/iwda/Links to an external site.

Industrial design:

Kinkajou Microfilm Projector and Portable Library

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/420778857/Links to an external site.

Big Boda Load-carrying Bicycle

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/420778837/Links to an external site.

Q Drum

http://www.qdrum.co.za (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Gravity Light

https://deciwatt.global/gravitylightLinks to an external site.

Solar Aid

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/420778829/Links to an external site.

Polak, P. (2007). Design for the Other Ninety Percent, in C. Smith (Ed.). Design for the Other 90% (pp.19-25). Cooper-Hewitt/National Design Museum, Smithsonian.