Stage 2 Material Solutions - Furniture Design
Students harness the design and realisation process to engineer innovative products, focusing on furniture design within the context of Material Solutions. This course fosters creativity, innovation, and critical thinking, integrating technologies to address design challenges. Students explore design features, materials, and production techniques, applying ethical, legal, economic, and sustainability considerations. Assessment includes Specialised Skills (20%), Design Process and Solution (50%), and a Resource Study (30%), ensuring students develop robust engineering processes and solutions that meet societal needs.
Subject Type: Elective
Length: Full Year
SACE Credits: 20 Credits – Stage 2
Prerequisites: C for 1 Semester of Year 11 Material Solutions
Contact Person: mohammad.arifi@stcolumba.sa.edu.au
Further Reading: Subject description | Subject outline | Stage 2 - Design, Technology and Engineering - South Australian Certificate of Education (sace.sa.edu.au)
Design and Technology for Education - Majors, Sub-majors & Minors (unisa.edu.au)
Topic Overview
- Investigate and analyse design features, materials, and production techniques.
- Plan, develop, and test design concepts, communicating potential solution (Product).
- Apply engineering skills and processes using technology to create product.
- Evaluate products against design briefs, reflecting on design and realisation processes.
- Analyse ethical, legal, economic, and sustainability issues in solution design.
Assessment Overview
Assessment Type 1: Specialised Skills Task (20%)
- Display Box – Skills Task 1
- Evaluation of Skills Task 1
- Furniture Design – 3D Modelling (CAD) – Skills Task 2
- Evaluation of Skills Task 2
Assessment Type 2: Design Process and Product (50%)
- Investigation Analysis – Product Features & Aesthetics
- Design Development (CAD Modelling & Technical Drawing Sheet)
- Solution Feature (Product) – Furniture Design
- Evaluation of Solution Feature
Assessment Type 3: Resource Study – External (30%)
- Investigate and analyse material functional characteristics and properties.
- Explore ethical, legal, economic, and sustainability issues related to the solution.
- Present findings in written or multimodal format, up to 2000 words or equivalent.
- Assess criteria including investigation, analysis, design development, planning, and evaluation.