DESN 1105 · Sketching, Concept Mapping, and the Foundational Portfolio

Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

1. Module 5 ○ Open

   Sketching, Concept Mapping, and the Foundational Portfolio

   Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

   The question

   Consolidating the four scale-based projects into a Stage 1 foundational portfolio. The module covers sketching as the discipline of seeing (pencil as primary tool, drawing-as-thinking), the three orthographic projections (plan, section, elevation), axonometric and perspective sketching, and the order in which to draw. Concept-mapping as the discipline of externalising structure. The portfolio as the discipline of telling the story of one's own design thinking. The student compiles a 25–40-page Stage 1 portfolio incorporating the four prior projects.

   Outcome

   The student has compiled a 25–40-page foundational portfolio across the four projects from Modules 1–4, with an integrative 1,000-word reflection on what changed in their seeing across the four scales. (Foundational portfolio)

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