Elements and Performance Criteria
- Acquire and develop technical skills
- Plan strategies to ensure the development of appropriate technical skills in design practice
- Plan and use opportunities to develop and assess technical skills
- Identify and use practice, feedback, discussion and evaluation opportunities to continuously improve technical skills
- Develop and extend technical skills through testing capabilities of materials, tools and equipment
- Identify and use relevant media to stimulate technical and professional development
- Develop conceptual skills and ideas
- Engage in ongoing experimentation and exploration of different ideas and techniques
- Discuss ideas with others and apply knowledge gained to inform own work
- Use work practice to gain experience in a range of genres and interpretations
- Study the work of others to stimulate conceptual and technical skills development
- Research and share ideas across a range of design disciplines
- Identify and use a range of opportunities to develop own skills and keep informed about current design practice
- Develop own voice
- Evaluate own work
- Seek and apply constructive criticism from others to improve own work
- Evaluate own work against planned strategy for own practice
- Evaluate own work in the context of work by others to extend own practice
- Adjust work processes and practice as necessary to improve technical, conceptual and commercial outcomes
- Research work opportunities