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The programme offers guidance to students in understanding design strategies as well as tutorial support for design project work. He uses the production of the TV broadcast as a model for project work.
The programme offers guidance to students in understanding design strategies as well as tutorial support for design project work. He uses the production of the TV broadcast as a model for project work.
| Module code and title: | T262, Man-made futures: design and technology |
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| Item code: | T262; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 10-08-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:22:25 |
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| Producer: | Colin Robinson |
| Contributor: | Nigel Cross |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Design strategies; Script development; Strategy control |
| Footage description: | Nigel Cross introduces the programme. He discusses some of his findings following testing of the Design Methods Manual on students. He goes through a list of answers he had drawn up in response to the question he posed for himself: "What do students want to know?" Nigel lists and briefly discusses the two main skills required for project work. He then goes on to discuss skilled behaviour in general. With the aid of several animations as analogies for design project work, Nigel Cross examines design skills. Nigel Cross in football gear uses a model football game as a further analogy for generating design strategies. Brief film shots of a goal being scored in a football match. Nigel Cross sums up the common points found in the above analogies for choosing a design strategy. Chris Crickmay and then Chris Jones discuss ways in which design skills are learned and some of the problems students have of acquiring them. Using the making of this TV programme as an example of a design project, Nigel Cross looks at an objective tree which he constructed for the programme. Nigel Cross discusses some general features of skilled behaviour using typing skills as a specific example. Nigel Cross sums up. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71713 |
| Production number: | 00525_5158 |
| Videofinder number: | 2671 |
| Available to public: | no |
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