Investigation
We are making a DT classroom.
Identify the Problem
Design Brief
End User + Target Audience
The Target audience will be:
- Architectual firms.
- Hardware Shops.
- Building companies
End users
- Students
- Teachers
- Parents
Design Specs
- precise, correct and accurate room dimensions based on the existing building structures
- four emergency exits
- two main entry points
- very good ventilation
- maximum natural light
- ability to function in the event of a power failure
- place for washing hands
- emergency shower
- eye washing
- two first aid stations
- 1 firehouse and 2 fire extinguishers
- a place for students to store bags, personal items and project that they are working on
- truck loading bay
- a display area
- space for 25 students
- tools/machinery and materials for for class tasks that include (a) furniture making (wood) (b) toys for kids (wood) (c) producing a letterbox (sheet metal) and (d) key fob making (acrylic)
- storage place for wood, metal, paint and acrylic
- tool storage
- safety equipment and safety equipment storage
Testing Methods
The people i will be asking to test my product are:
- Diane Muy Lin Loh - A teacher at NISC.
- Jakamo Sharpe - From Jak's Architectual firms.
- Chhaya Chandara - A student at Nisc.
- Johnny - From johnnies Hardware store.
- LingLing Meng - From LL Building company.
- Hwanjin Lee - A parent from NISC.
Beacon School
This is a school named Beacon, it offers classes for boys from age 3-13. They offer a DT class as well and this is it. It is a mix of food, art and wood work, from 3-13 they have a programme for food in there Food lab. It is a completly safe lab equipped with everything from safety goggle's to shoes for kids. - http://www.beaconschool.co.uk/2356/academic-life/subjects/-design-technology -
Parson's Design school.
Parson's is a design school and basically they teach their student Design and Technology.The DT 10th Floor Lab is equipped with Mac and Windows computer stations. The lab contains light boxes, stop motion stations, Cintiq monitors, and the Laser Cutter. Technicians are always at hand for in-house equipment borrowing. - http://arc.parsons.edu/wordpress/?page_id=1175
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia and design. Staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others.[1] The Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a series of practical inventions in the fields of wireless networks, field sensing, web browsers and the World Wide Web. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab
Research and Skill Development
To help me unerstand more about the 3D design part of creating my product i created a replica of the Primary cafeteria, which wasn't very good because i didnt get all the exact measurements but maybe it was because the cafeteria was really big. It took me around 3 classes to complete it.
To find a more creative way of creating my deisgn cycle report we went to a website which gave us plenty of websites to choose from, that website was : http://www.go2web20.net/: So we had around 7 different websites to chooses from but in the end by a "hand's up vote" the majority of people chose a fun and creative website called : http://www.smore.com :
To develop my understanding of design technology labs I conducted some more research and this is what I discovered...
Design Technology is a course offered for both primary and secondary. In some school's in countries such as England DT is a part of their National curriculum meaning it is compulsory that all schools offer that class. Design and Technology is not jut about computers and design, it is a mix between the 2. An example is using Google sketchup to create a 3D design of a house, then once done you create a real life model using the scale one. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_and_Technology -