Year 9 Industrial Design

Subject Description

How do I combine creativity and technology to make products that I can use, sell or create a business from? How can I incorporate cultural symbols to create unique expressions when designing products? In this course, students will be immersed in a creative process using materials and technologies to produce functional products. Students explore cultural symbolism to ideate and create designs while developing skills to generate their own solutions. The course culminates in students developing a range of pewter cast products and a timber tapas board. Students explore how as designers, our strength is our difference.

Concept

Strength in Difference.

Structure

Unit 1: Traditional Technologies - Tapas Board
  • Properties of materials
  • Timber technologies
  • Design thinking, analysis and evaluation skills
  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Unit 2: Contemporary Technologies - Pewter Casting
  • Properties of materials
  • Pewter casting
  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
  • Computer-Aided Manufacture (CAM)

Assessment

Project, journal and folio.

Contact

Mrs Natalle Sutton

nsutton@mfac.edu.au

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