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Working with Contextual Challenges at GCSEDesign and Technology Association Summer School
Sarah Davies, Alison Hardy and Arron Surridge-Taylor
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technology is context specific
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History of the babies bottle
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introduction
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Teaching for the Contextual Challenge
Alison Hardy&
David Barlex
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• what do you want to get out of the session?
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Overview
• The nature of a contextual challenge• The contextual challenge in three phases
– Phase 1 exploring to identify needs and wants– Phase 2 Meeting the identified needs and wants– Phase 3 Evaluating the outcomes
• The departmental approach
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Contextual Challenges OCR AQAEdexcel
each context has an additional set of 3 questions as prompts although these are
quite narrow in some cases)
Edugas
Extending human capacity The world of travel & tourism Expanding human capacity Improving the daily life of an individual or group of people
Responding to the unexpected A high profile event
Improving living and working spaces
(environments and objects)
The sensitive design of public spaces can enhance users’ experiences &
interactions with that space. Explore a space in your locality with the view to
enhancing the users’ experience within that space.
The contemporary home
Improving living spaces
Securing the future Sustainability and our future needs
Protecting people and products
Promoting health and wellbeing Addressing the needs of the
elderly Outdoors pursuits & physical fitness
Expressing personal and social identity
Explore the theme ‘personalities’ & use this exploration as the basis for
designing a product.
Developing communities
Dining can be a wonderful social & cultural experience that does not
always focus on the eating of food. Explore ways design can enhance the
experiences for any of the stakeholders involved
Developing communities
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Portable Organizing Game for a 12 year old with learning difficulties
to use in the home and weekend caravan
Extending human capacity - Improving the daily life of an individual or group of people
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Sensory Quilt for someone who struggles to sleep/relax
to use in the evenings/bed
Promoting health and wellbeing - Addressing the needs of the
elderly
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Waiters Friendfor a bar person
to use in a busy wine bar
Improving living and working spaces
(environments and objects) - The
contemporary home
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GloSportfor pedestrians/runners/cyclist
to use at night on the road
The GloSport project came about after a group of NTU students were researching their brief and discovered just how many deaths of pedestrians and cyclists were the result of collisions with vehicles. They did an impressive amount of research into existing products before concluding that there was definitely a gap for a product which not only used high visibility materials, but also lit up in some way. Enter...GloSport.
Protecting people and products – ‘being seen’
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Sarah Davies [email protected] @sdsdavies
Alison Hardy [email protected] @Hardy_Alison
Arron Surridge-Taylor @asurridge_DT