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Technological Modelling

This component provides opportunity to recognise and value both functional and practical reasoning. Understanding the role of all types of values, in determining whether any development should progress, is critical. A decision may be made to terminate a development in the short or long term, to continue as planned, or to change/refine a design concept or technological outcome. This can be analysed against the values of different people, groups and institutions, and the value of the arguments put forward as to the ethical nature of the actions taken. In the context of designing and developing high quality models of a cell phone to communicate their design ideas, students were faced with a range of ethical issues associated with working with a client and designing for a fickle teenage market. Environmental impacts of material selection, use and disposal were all important values issues associated with this work, as were cost effectiveness when designing a commercially viable product.

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