Explore the skills · QCAA
Design
Prepare a visual and written response to a Unit 4 sustainable design problem: devise, represent, evaluate, refine and propose.
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Find a skill
Use the supplied design stimulus
- Extract constraints that a response must satisfyRevision skill
- Use the supplied criteria to direct design decisionsRevision skill
- Turn sustainability information into design decisionsRevision skill
- Trace a design decision across its life cycleRevision skill
Represent ideas so they can be judged
- Sketch functional relationships schematicallyRevision skill
- Use ideation sketches to show form and functionRevision skill
- Show how a person uses the designRevision skill
- Show the progression from idea to refinementRevision skill
Devise sustainable alternatives
- Devise a varied set of relevant alternativesRevision skill
- Elaborate an original response to the problemRevision skill
- Devise repairable and adaptable design featuresRevision skill
- Devise a product-as-service alternativeRevision skill
- Devise a workable return and material-recovery loopRevision skill
Evaluate and visibly refine ideas
- Evaluate strengths, limitations and implications against criteriaRevision skill
- Resolve conflicting criteria with a justified choiceRevision skill
- Make visible refinements that respond to evaluationRevision skill
Propose a sustainable design concept
- Synthesise useful attributes from multiple ideasRevision skill
- Use form to support social meaning and a sense of placeRevision skill
- Integrate sustainability information into the conceptRevision skill
- Represent a coherent final concept and its critical attributesRevision skill