1997 QUT Handbook

■ ARB176 INTRODUCTORY INTERIOR DESIGN 1
Introduction to design theory, methodology, and aesthetic perceptions.
Exploring design as an interactive process. Introductory
design exercises, simple two and three dimensional
elements. Freehand sketching, mechanical drawing, principles
of perspective, principles of scale drawing and presentation
skills. Unit includes tertiary learning-to-learn process
necessary for effective and successful study.
Courses: BN30 Corequisites: ARB161
Credit Points: 18 Contact Hours: 9 per week
■ ARB177 INTRODUCTORY INDUSTRIAL
DESIGN 1
Introduction to basic design principles; three dimensional
visual thinking; aesthetic perception; concept development of
simple products; perspective drawing and presentation skills;
strategic learning at university.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 18 Contact Hours: 9 per week
■ ARB241 HISTORY OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT 2
A continuation of ARB141. History of the following from circa
1600 AD: ideas, art, and two of the following (one of which
must be the student’s major discipline): town and country planning,
landscape architecture, architecture, interior and industrial
design.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ARB246 INTRODUCTION TO INTERIOR
TECHNOLOGY 2
Structural systems of domestic building construction; chemical
characteristics of materials and finishes including timber/
wood products, cement and concrete, ceramics, glass, polymers
and metals; manufacturing process and performance.
Measurement and recording of building spaces. Photography
and photogrammetry. Application of recorded information.
Courses: BN30 Corequisites: ARB276
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ ARB249 THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT 2
See PSB051.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ ARB251 ERGONOMICS FOR INDUSTRIAL
DESIGNERS 1
Psychomotor skills; human information processing; humanmachine
interfaces; displays, controls, and tools; human-machine
system properties; feedback and controls; workplace
design; noise; stress; vibration; legal aspect; safety and product
liability. Practical exercises in product design.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ ARB267 LIGHT & COLOUR STUDIES
A further investigation of the relevance of colour theories,
and the relevance and use of colour in interior design. It deals
with the understanding of the symbolic, physiological and
psychological aspects of colour, within historical and contemporary
contexts.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: ARB161
Corequisites: ARB276
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ARB268 TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE 2
Introduction to chemical properties of materials; data collection
analysis and statistics and relevant to industrial design.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ ARB276 INTRODUCTORY INTERIOR DESIGN 2
A further introduction to design theory, methodology and perception.
To demonstrate the application of environmental issues;
refine awareness and understanding by working collaboratively
with people in designing three-dimensional spaces to
suit their needs. Continuation of mechanical and freehand draw-
ing presentation and development of written and verbal skills.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: ARB176
Corequisites: ARB267
Credit Points: 18 Contact Hours: 9 per week
■ ARB277 INTRODUCTORY INDUSTRIAL
DESIGN 2
Continuation of ARB177; studio work involving three-dimensional
design tasks of a variety of scales; workshop and field
teaching; techniques of oral and written presentation of
schemes to audience; report writing; use of English as applicable
to the professional needs.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 18 Contact Hours: 9 per week
■ ARB291 THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT 3
The social and cultural development of Australian urban environments,
local built environments; study of human functioning
in urban environments, privacy, personal space, territoriality,
environmental meaning and cognition, cognitive maps
and wayfinding, intercultural and intracultural differences.
Application via examination and analysis of an urban environment
with respect to its socio-cultural function.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ ARB292 THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT 4
The interaction of formal organisations and institutions, especially
the organisation of work and government and the built
environment; small group theory and the effective group; work
and motivation. Management style and bureaucracy, its character
and influence; social analysis and social forecasting;
social interest groups in a pluralist society; mechanisms and
processes of compromise; Australia’s government system as
relating to public policy and the electoral system; modern society
and the individual.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ ARB350 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 1
Scope of problem solving theory; special characteristics of
design problems; the task environment, design heuristics; creativity
and innovation and general psychological theories of
creativity; case studies; visual communication and design process.
The studio exercises to which most of the time is devoted
are aimed at a range of different product designs. The complexity
and depth of the design project will increase systematically
during the semester.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: ARB277
Credit Points: 18 Contact Hours: 8 per week
■ ARB351 ERGONOMICS FOR INDUSTRIAL
DESIGNERS 2
Person-machine system models; human capabilities; hearing
and signal detection theory; vision; and user modelling. Practical
exercises cover application of lecture topics to product
design.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: ARB251
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ ARB353 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY 1
Metals, glass, wood, ceramics and plastics technologies: the
relation between the properties of materials and the industrial
processes available for their fabrication. Application of the
study of materials and their fabrication to design problems in
studio exercises. Introduction of computers (CAD).
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ ARB354 COMPUTER-AIDED INDUSTRIAL
DESIGN 1
PC computer operation, introduction to using Windows, overview
of use of graphics and CAD by industrial designers in
the design process. Application of CAD for engineering drawings
and as a 2D presentation tool. Introduction to 3D
wireframe modelling concepts.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
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