Submission Requirements: You will produce an individual essay (2700- 3300 words, excluding references) that critically analyses 2-3 lecture themes introduced below. Therefore, you will select from the themes of “digitally good” futures, creative evaluation, co-design, human-centered AI, and design for sustainability. The guest lecturers introduced these themes but did not exhaust them.
Your essay, therefore, serves as a vehicle for you to expand your knowledge of the themes you are most interested in.
Essay Content
Please include the following in your essay:
• An introduction that clearly outlines which themes you will investigate in your essay and why.
• For each of your chosen themes, identify what you think are the key issues/challenges.
• Identify opportunities for where and how design can intervene to address the issues/challenges that you have identified.
• Conclude by considering what design-related future career opportunities might exist across your chosen themes.
Marking Criteria
• Production of a solid and clear structure.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of potential future directions for design.
• Critically and creatively engage with complex societal challenges and their relationship to innovation.
• Understand and articulate the role of design beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries
• Consider design-related future career opportunities across your chosen themes.
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So, please spend about 750words in the first part on What theme(s) are you exploring and why are they interesting, significant, timely…?
Not just for you – but for society in general. Why is this important? and briefly discuss the working framework of both designs and the problems they can solve, using some references in this section to testify to our argument. In this part, we can use some references to support our argument.
In the second part, use about 750 words to introduce What are the key challenges that need to be addressed?
Why have we not figured this out already if it’s so important?
What remains to be explored? Each of these questions should be combined with a case study and reference. The focus could be on specific issues that address sustainable development goals, such as agriculture, age-friendly design, etc.
In the third part, also about 750 words in length: What are the exciting opportunities for Design to intervene and address these key challenges?
How and why is this a challenge?
What design related careers might that design can help address?
Here you need to be clearer about the developing opportunities and challenges, please note that as a design thesis, you need to focus on design, and you can discuss the technology applied to interaction design, the data collection of user experience, and the ethic issues involved in design and application, and so on.
In part 4, or 750words, answer and develop the following question:What design related careers might that design can help address?
Why, how and what would this mean for the role of the designer and the skills they would need…?
What steps would be required to make this a reality…?
It is only possible to go into more detail and refine the work and development of the design itself here, in close conjunction with the preceding text and appropriate references.