Course notes for Design assessment Term 3

Assessment and Week one

• Assessment will be creating a section of a city in Lego Digital designer.
• Week one:
• Divergent thinking strategies
• Gives opportunity to create choices and improve ideation
• - prompted by thought, ideas, inspiration, and research
• - unconstrained and unfiltered
• - iterative, builds on past ideas, and informs new ideas
• - it asks "what are the possibilities"
• unconstrained
• - not held back - Merriam-Webster,
• - not restricted or limited - Oxford Languages
• - without limits or restrictions - vocabulary.com
• Unfiltered
• - not modified, processed or refined - Merriam-Webster
• - with no information removed - Cambridge dictionary
• Divergent thinking occurs throughout the design process but is often most evident in the early explore and develop phases
• Brainstorming: is essential technique of divergent thinking
• the focus is on possibilities and the creative thinking that inspires it is open, non-judgemental, and imaginative can be a concept or mind map, word list, idea box,

Week two

• Students will understand the difference between wants and needs.
• needs - necessary for living
• wants -
• opportunities -

Slide 3

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• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs