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Design Management and Practice 1 - SDES9216
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Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course will provide candidates with the opportunity to study the nature and role of design management in the development of a design culture. Attention will be paid to the analysis and application of design management processes to the notion of design cultures as a management goal in both commercial and institutional environments; study of the management of new technologies, materials and services; management of research and development, planning models and techniques, predictive models; research into the role of design management principles in the development of a design consciousness as an integral part of responsible design and manufacture in the Australian context. Additionally attention will be paid to a critical analysis of design practice in both consultant and design department situations; comparative analysis of design management concepts and economic and business concepts in research and design development; analysis and application of psycho/social concepts in the development of design project co-ordination models.

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