Outdoor lighting design
This project will develop students’ k/u of 3D design processes by using Clyde architecture/bridges as a starting point to create a unique outdoor lighting design to present to a panel of experts such as a festival organiser, Clyde developer, local designer, local authority personnel, local community and an exhibition at parents’ evening.
Outcomes of learning
• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced e.g. the design process, working to constraints (design brief, intended market etc), learning how to use various materials and techniques e.g. experimenting with paper, plastic, card and wire
• Employability skills enhanced – application of knowledge in a real situation by being able to follow a brief, by being in competition with peers and by presenting you finished product to a selected panel (selling your product also relates to selling oneself in an interview situation)
• Communication & analysing: critiquing each others work at middle and end of project
• Researching, planning and sourcing: going through the design process
• Organisation: presentation boards to show design process
• Presenting: presenting your work to a panel of experts at the end of the project
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons demonstrated by pupil focussed working through experimenting with materials, at this stage teacher is available for help and support but pupils would be coming up with ideas themselves
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions throughout their design unit and selecting which material best suits their design. Pupils will also justify their final design to the panel of experts
• Pupils have developed enterprising skills identified as 4 capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
• Supports 5-14 Art & Design studies, students will work with the visual elements: line, shape, form, texture and colour
• Relevance of how lighting design is relevant to work and life (everything that you see around has been through the design process) and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation
