CCDN 231EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN IDEASassignment 5

EXTENSION FFINAL THESIS

The Final Thesis is to review and extrapolate how the everyday offers endless expressions of meaning to underpin a design process. The objective of the Final Thesis is to reflect, analyse, evaluate and critique your process and your findings? The Final Thesis presents coherently and concisely the physical and sensory explorations that revealed and investigated abstract concepts (aspects) which became the foundation of the experience design and the time-based projects.

Design a book which combines images and texte to offer an analytical discussion about each extension that describes, debates and critiques the outcomes and decisions within each extension. If we consider critical design as

that which asks carefully crafted questions and makes us think, than questions must be asked about what we actually need, about the poetic moments thatcan be intertwined with the everyday, Design Noir. Dunne&Raby

by examining ourselves in the everyday with intent and new eyes, ears, nose, hands and tongues.

In the writing for each phase, reference your analysis and critique with a minimum of two new primary sources. How can the synthesis of your process draw both conclusions and future questions about design?

Critical design takes as its medium social, psychological, cultural, technical and economic values to push the limited of the lived experience.

Design Noir. Dunne&Raby

Conclude with a question?How can the investigation process define a particular design issue? What can you articulate as a final outcome of your process, in the form of a question, for further research? Use your process, your literature research and final outcomes to determine a research question?

submission format book images – minimum 12assessment 15% words – minimum 1000.

where 1. pdf. R drive2. book (box outside my office)

dueall groups 3. tuesday october 25 noon

**Please note that all references must follow the APA citation style (6th edition). Review APA guidelines at: http://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/APA6th and be sure to download the APA Style Sheet provided on the course website.