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DESN9002: Designing for the Digital Revolution
2025 unit information
Design is constantly being challenged by new digital technologies, of which artificial intelligence (AI) is the most recent. In this unit you will use strategic design approaches and critical thinking to learn from previous technological challenges to design and society, to see what can be learned to help prepare for future digital design challenges. By examining previous design challenges as well as contemporary ones, you will gain insights to help you focus on how digital technologies have revolutionised design and the society that we design for. By engaging with practical design challenges, you will study how designers and organisations have responded to previous digital challenges, how this influences design today, and how you can learn from them to prepare for future challenges from the digital revolution. In short, you will be learning from the past, and the present, to help prepare for the future of design.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Design Lab |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the digital landscape surrounding threats to innovation
- LO2. plan a strategic digital strategy for such oncoming threats
- LO3. identify customer emotive drivers and design a digital strategy based on these accordingly
- LO4. understand the complexities and methods of utilising design within a business context
- LO5. use various design-based research approaches and methodologies to design a successful digital strategy.
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Semester 1 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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