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GTTA day at HPSS

  • Writer: Rebecca Smye-Rumsby
    Rebecca Smye-Rumsby
  • Aug 11, 2017
  • 2 min read

PART I

HPSS focus

Di Cavallo | Deputy Principal | Hobsonville Point Secondary School

Learning Design Model: making thinking and learning visible at HPSS'

Liz McHugh | Projects Leader | Hobsonville Point Secondary School

ARCHITEXT | The creative design & IDEATE | trialling the integration of Modules and Projects

Me | Technology/DVC Teacher | Hobsonville Point Secondary School

My experience with collaboration in Modules

PART 2

Technology Focus

Megan Dunsmore | Epsom Girls Grammar School

Product Design Focus

NCEA level 2 and 3

Connecting with the human story

Understanding the context

Expectations.

Design tools

Technical knowledge

Communication techniques

Start with the heart

Following with the hand

Finish with the head

The context is everything!

Ergonomics should be a feeling (producing a tangible model)

Section views, exploded views, detailed sketches.

Tell the story of the final design

Motu Samaeli | St Kentigern College

Spatial Design Focus

Connecting with the context: the site, the user/client

Understanding the user experience

What is spatial?

Expectations.

Design tools: bubble diagrams, symbolism and semiotics

Technical knowledge: Materials, processes, sustainabiliy, environmental considerations

Communication techniques: Architectural drawing

The site:

Site analysis (this should be revisited throughout the project

Considering the spatial experience (designing from interior experience to exterior and visa versa)

Reconciling all the elements: conceptual message, relation to site, organisation of spaces, spatial experiences, interior/exterior threshold, materiality, facade design, structure.

Communicating the narrative: Utilise their strengths

Garth Horsnell | St Kentigern College

Junior Technology Focus

(Design and hard materials) Foundation technology: Year 10 focus

Provide the brief

Design heritage: Homage (design store) allowing the students to experience the chairs

Critique process: Students are scaffolded into knowing what to talk about

1:5 Scale model: Using materials as close as they can to the real thing

A whole year project to reach a fully furnished furniture piece.

Ron Van Musscher | Onslow College

DVC Teaching and Learning guides discussion

Design heritage + Visual Communication = Design thinking

The idea of a Design and Visual Communication (DVC) as a teaching and learning guide 2017

Opportunity to give feedback

 
 
 

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