Hoahoa ā-ArapāhoMedia Design

Some of the key innovations
that have happened

in the history of the world
have happened by designers.

Design is a discipline
that is really about

absolutely everything
else that isn't design.

Design is about bringing
together the content of life

and finding ways for us to engage with it.

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I guess if we think about
design in its traditional sense,

we think of objects, we
think of cool objects,

but it's really a changing space.

Design is also about experiences,
how we engage with things,

just think about your phone.

So what we need to be able to do,

and what we need to
understand about people

is so much more than it ever was before.

Really the study of design
is so much broader than just

aesthetics or form finding,
it's really about people.

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One of the biggest
questions you're probably

asking yourself is what do I need to be?

Who do I need to be?

What do I need to know to
come to the School of Design.

If you're the kind of student

that likes drawing or likes being creative

or like working in teams
or likes collaboration.

If you're the kind of
student that likes robotics,

if you're the kind of student
that likes website design

or photography, there's
a lot of different things

that design as a field can hold for you.

And here in the School
of Design Innovation,

we aim to offer first year
students a world-class experience

that really can expose you
to lots of different ways

of communicating and making and working.

And the world of design
can really open up a lot

of different pathways
for absolutely anybody.

I guess a big question
is who needs a designer?

Who needs design?

Well, everything and everyone.

If you're a person that cares about

the way that we experience the world,

whether that's the way we travel
through an environment like

an airport or a hospital
or a public space,

and how you sort of navigate those spaces

and wayfinding and communication,

or the way that we interact
with each other in different

environments, whether that's
in our physical environment

or in an online environment,

If you're someone that is interested

in the way that social media
is impacting our communities,

if you're interested in
sustainability and how that is

really vital part of every conversation

that we should be having as designers

or as students, or as citizens.

This course has all of these
different elements converging

in different classroom
environments, in different projects.

Really we're looking for curiosity,

energy and understanding that
the world is a changing place

and that you want to be
an active player in that.

The kinds of students
that might be interested

in approaching Victoria's
Bachelor of Design Innovation

programme would be students
that are leaving school,

but also people that might be
looking for a career change.

So if you're a student
that cares about people,

place, the planet, your community,

and making these all positive places

then the School of Design
Innovation is for you.

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We have lecturers and
academic staff from all around

the world that specialise in
various aspects of design.

And we have a workroom with
cutting edge technology

that students want to come here

and experience from all over the world.

Graduating with a Bachelor
of Design Innovation,

positions you incredibly
well for really being

the arbiter of your own choices

in terms of where you
want to go in design.

There are a lot of design agencies

that you might imagine
yourself working at,

but there's also a lot of
freelancing and entrepreneurship

that goes along with the design skills

and communication skills that you gain

from this programme of study.

Half of the careers you could take

haven't even been invented yet.

The Bachelor of Design
Innovation is about arming our

students and graduates with
the skills and knowledge

that they need to participate in

the global conversation about innovation.

A Bachelor of Design
Innovation enables you

to confidently stand at the cutting edge,

to play a part as tech evolves,

as design evolves, as the world changes.

So many of the students that enrol

at the School of Design
Innovation care deeply

about people and place,

the planet and the people
in their communities.

So as a design school,
it's our responsibility to

really grow these
initiatives for the students,

with the students, and enable them

to be those agents of change.

Look around the room you're sitting in,

how much of it is designed.

Look at the systems that
you're using or a part of.

Look at the services you
use. Design as a discipline

is a changing and fluid space.

So with a Bachelor of Design Innovation,

you're able to respond to the
change that the discipline is

undergoing, but also the areas

that design can contribute to.

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The Bachelor of Design Innovation is

a really broad programme where

you have a large body of
students that are interested

in a lot of different aspects
of design and broader.

We have students that are
focusing primarily on design,

but we also have a lot
of students from around

the whole of the Victoria campus

that might be mixing design
with other disciplines.

The programme of study
here is really flexible.

So you get to really choose
how you want to manage it.

Your programme of study in the
Bachelor of Design Innovation

is tailored by you, so
you have some core courses

that you will be taking
alongside everybody else

in your degree programme,
but you are available

to mix and match different courses

from all across the School
of Design Innovation.

You can choose your major
and then broadly take

and look at many other of the programmes,

taking courses from different programmes

to support what it is you're trying to do,

or you can really hunker down

and study completely within that programme.

Your programme of study in the
Bachelor of Design Innovation

can be unique to you only.

You know, we have some
core design principles

that we base our courses
on, but we're not here

to tell you how things should look,

or how things should feel
or how things should behave.

We're here to arm you
with analytical skills

and communication skills
and design skills primarily

that help you to form your own language.

Apart from the traditional skills

that you would learn at a design school,

that we might call hard skills,

where you're learning software, hardware

to work with technologies,

there's also an abundance of
soft skills that you'll learn.

Once you complete this degree,

you'll be better equipped
to work with people,

work within communities,
work with your clients

to really discover and
research what it is they need.

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One of the great things about
studying in Wellington,

is we're not just the political capital,

we're also the creative capital.

The proximity that our students have

to leading industry professionals

in the fields of design
and innovation are really

incredible unique
opportunities for our students.

So being a part of that, right

at the heart of all of
that, is really exciting.

We are lucky here in Wellington to be

in a thriving innovation landscape.

The capital city of New Zealand is filled

with creative and innovative
and progressive people

doing really fascinating
things, and I think our students

really benefit from that environment.

You know, we are all here,
but we're engaging globally.

We have graduates that
are all over the world,

making change.

The design discipline is changing,

and so is the world
that it contributes to.

Graduating with a Bachelor
of Design Innovation

really enables you into career paths,

that beyond the ones who
possibly already know.

What excites me about
lecturing in the field of design

is that I'm able to talk
about the ways that design

has actually been a hotbed of innovation

for the whole world to draw from.

There's a common understanding
amongst designers that,

you know, you don't notice good design,

you only notice bad design
when something doesn't work,

when something jars.

So great design can help
make our lives seamless.

The biggest lesson
I've learned from design

is that humans aren't always right,

and we need your
curiosity, your questions,

your hard questions and your energy

to really move this world forward.

It doesn't really matter
what background you're from

or what you're interested in.

This programme of study
isn't just for people

that are interested in design.

Design is about the way we
process and shape information

and objects and the way we
interface with the world.

So if you want to use your
curiosity and your energy to be

an active agent of change,

come and study with us at the
Bachelor of Design Innovation.

We look forward to
welcoming you to Wellington

and to our school soon.

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