Partnerships with Industry
- Authors: Smith, Chrissie
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: ACUADS 2010 Conference
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- Description: Partnerships with Industry Chrissie Louise Smith University of Ballarat Abstract Work experience or studio placement has historically been a staple in Graphic Design education. There is a high recognition of the importance of this hands-on approach to the student’s education. However there are limitations, studio placements are usually brief and the environments are generally fast paced, we have found that only a small number of students benefit from this situation. The Partnerships initiative builds on this idea of work integrated learning but broadens and deepens the student’s experience through working on a ‘real project’ with a client. To achieve this broader approach we facilitate engagement with clients on projects that involve research, as well as all elements of the design process including briefing, refining and critiquing. Another vital aspect of the Partnerships initiative is to arrange for our students to work with ‘Not for Profit’ organisations wherever possible. These organisations provide the scope that we were looking for and have the added benefit of engaging and building relationships with different sectors of the community. The projects our students are engaged in to date are still in progress but our findings so far indicate a sense satisfaction from the experience of working in collaboration with a client, getting really involved in the project and in some cases making a significant personal contribution to the community. The Partnerships initiative creates a greater opportunity for students to work on quite large projects that require a degree of research not normally facilitated by work experience and studio placements. It is anticipated that is initiative will give the student a broader view of the practice of Graphic Design and foster a long-term view of the discipline perhaps leading to further study and enhanced career decisions.
- Authors: Smith, Chrissie
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: ACUADS 2010 Conference
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: Partnerships with Industry Chrissie Louise Smith University of Ballarat Abstract Work experience or studio placement has historically been a staple in Graphic Design education. There is a high recognition of the importance of this hands-on approach to the student’s education. However there are limitations, studio placements are usually brief and the environments are generally fast paced, we have found that only a small number of students benefit from this situation. The Partnerships initiative builds on this idea of work integrated learning but broadens and deepens the student’s experience through working on a ‘real project’ with a client. To achieve this broader approach we facilitate engagement with clients on projects that involve research, as well as all elements of the design process including briefing, refining and critiquing. Another vital aspect of the Partnerships initiative is to arrange for our students to work with ‘Not for Profit’ organisations wherever possible. These organisations provide the scope that we were looking for and have the added benefit of engaging and building relationships with different sectors of the community. The projects our students are engaged in to date are still in progress but our findings so far indicate a sense satisfaction from the experience of working in collaboration with a client, getting really involved in the project and in some cases making a significant personal contribution to the community. The Partnerships initiative creates a greater opportunity for students to work on quite large projects that require a degree of research not normally facilitated by work experience and studio placements. It is anticipated that is initiative will give the student a broader view of the practice of Graphic Design and foster a long-term view of the discipline perhaps leading to further study and enhanced career decisions.
Who me at Uni?
- Authors: Smith, Chrissie
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: This piece of communication was designed to go directly out to regional schools in disadvantaged areas in Victoria. Research indicated that a more direct and youthful style of communication was needed to capture the attention of 14 year olds who had not considered university as an option.
- Authors: Smith, Chrissie
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: This piece of communication was designed to go directly out to regional schools in disadvantaged areas in Victoria. Research indicated that a more direct and youthful style of communication was needed to capture the attention of 14 year olds who had not considered university as an option.
The collaborative designer : An investigation into the lived experience of co-design practice
- Authors: Smith, Chrissie
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: This enquiry is motivated by a growing recognition of citizen participation by design disciplines and other disciplines outside of design (such as social science, science and business) in solving complex problems across society. Co-design is the approach that this research focuses on in particular. Codesign is a new field of collaborative practice that has emerged from the Scandinavian tradition of Participatory Design. Integral to the philosophy of both these practices is the decentralisation of the individual expert designer and the empowering of the end user as an active participant. Despite many studies that have provided useful frameworks and insights into the practice of co-design, conceptualisations and discussions around implications for participation and design deployment rarely include the voice of the co-design practitioner. This study uses a descriptive phenomenological approach to explore the experience of practitioners, some trained in design and some not, facilitating co-design practice. Aligned with this approach, detailed interviews were conducted with six practitioners from Australia and New Zealand to understand what is unique or contingent to them personally, situated within their practices. Through a process of detailed and analytic exploration of these six individual descriptions of the phenomenon under investigation, the core constituents of the experience of co-design practice were distinguished for each participant. From these constituents, general structures representing the essences, or invariants common to all experiences under investigation were identified. Based on the careful analysis of the narrative descriptions from the interviewed practitioners, the core aspects of their practice in collaboration with end-user groups and other stakeholders are described. A visual framework is proposed that capture the complexity of their lived experiences of co-design practice.
- Description: Masters by Research
- Authors: Smith, Chrissie
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text:
- Description: This enquiry is motivated by a growing recognition of citizen participation by design disciplines and other disciplines outside of design (such as social science, science and business) in solving complex problems across society. Co-design is the approach that this research focuses on in particular. Codesign is a new field of collaborative practice that has emerged from the Scandinavian tradition of Participatory Design. Integral to the philosophy of both these practices is the decentralisation of the individual expert designer and the empowering of the end user as an active participant. Despite many studies that have provided useful frameworks and insights into the practice of co-design, conceptualisations and discussions around implications for participation and design deployment rarely include the voice of the co-design practitioner. This study uses a descriptive phenomenological approach to explore the experience of practitioners, some trained in design and some not, facilitating co-design practice. Aligned with this approach, detailed interviews were conducted with six practitioners from Australia and New Zealand to understand what is unique or contingent to them personally, situated within their practices. Through a process of detailed and analytic exploration of these six individual descriptions of the phenomenon under investigation, the core constituents of the experience of co-design practice were distinguished for each participant. From these constituents, general structures representing the essences, or invariants common to all experiences under investigation were identified. Based on the careful analysis of the narrative descriptions from the interviewed practitioners, the core aspects of their practice in collaboration with end-user groups and other stakeholders are described. A visual framework is proposed that capture the complexity of their lived experiences of co-design practice.
- Description: Masters by Research
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