Handbook

Mediated spaces of the future will demand a creative workforce with the ability to critically evaluate new tools for specific and unique communicative potential. This subject provides a fluency in design practice, digital media-making applications and the millennial-old concepts that guide imagery production. By exploring both traditional and emerging digital media, students will not only learn to identify this potential but distil universal principles of aesthetics and design that can be applied to new creative forms.

The role of design has grown from peripheral to foundational in vast array of practices. This course aims to develop deep understanding of design’s past, present and future and its impact on the world. At its core the practice is process oriented and outcome driven. Theory and concept development will lead to compelling and effective outcomes. The subject will explore new and future trends and processes as well as robust methods of making. It also aims to foster critical understanding and discourse around design and its role in the world of tomorrow.