Course Development Funds - Spring 2019
Design Next was established to support developing design content at UNSW. Course development funds are now available from UNSW Design Next and the second round of grants is open. In this round, a total of up to $50,000 in grants may be awarded; the application deadline is Monday, 30 September at 6:00 pm AEST. For more information on this initiative and how to apply, please click here.
Highlights of the initiative include:
- grant proposals from $5,000 to $15,000 may be supported
- multidisciplinary design courses aimed at students in Years 2-3 will have priority
- industry involvement, future scalability and sustainability are advantageous
- submissions must address the selection criteria as listed in the above document, though no specific format is required
Course Development Funds - Autumn 2019
The first four course development grants were awarded in August 2019 to:
- Dr. Beena Ahmed for developing a flipped mode design component into electrical engineering and by bringing in students from all Design Next faculties. Design Next believes Dr. Ahmed’s course will lead in the future to fertile multidisciplinary collaborations, but also creates ground for a large design course in Engineering. If you have content you think require electrical solutions, please contact Beena.
- Teresa Crea and Amy Teale from Art & Design. They are building a Masters program for visualization and simulation, and hope to build a course around immersive design, complexity and wicked problems. The course builds on a human-centric methodology and hopes to create and quickly test concepts for tackling “wicked” problems (basically problems with no solution) like aging. The larger framework behind the course is the Master’s program Teresa and Amy are building. It will bring together designers, engineers, scientists, and in the long run also social scientists.
- Dr. Kate Dunn from FBE for a multidisciplinary project on health care, which brings together the Design Net faculties, but also Medicine. The course will create and prototype design concepts for aging by using advanced fabrication methods. If you are interested, please contact Kate.
- Piaggio Project brings together the visual designer Dr. Ian McArthur and the mechanical engineer Dr. Garth Pearce with Piaggio, the famed Italian manufacturer of Vespas. The project brings together the massively different worlds of scientifically based engineering and imaginative graphic designers, and will - Design Next believes - prove that such collaborations are not only possible, but also very fruitful. This course will be taught in Term 3 of 2019, so you cannot tap into it anymore, but if you want to see Vespas, please visit the Design Next studio this Spring.
Some of these people will set up workshops to develop their proposals. Design Next can connect you to these workshops.
More contacts: Unfunded proposals covered topics such as innovation and entrepreneurship, and co-creation. If you are interested in these topics, please contact designnext@unsw.edu.au and we will connect you with these themes.
Thanks to all the applicants and also to our marvelous reviewers who made the decisions much easier!
Research Development Funds - Spring 2019
Design Next was established to support design research and education at UNSW. Research development funds are now available from UNSW Design Next and the first round of grants is open. Funding is targeted at developing a strategic process to identify research programs worth supporting over the next few years at UNSW. In this round, a total of up to $50,000 in grants may be awarded; the application deadline is Friday, 11 October at 5:00 pm AEST. For more information on this initiative and how to apply, please click here.
