Courses
VART3256 Furniture Design (M) (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- VART2255 Design Thinking or VART2257 Prototyping or (VART2575 Digital Tools: 3D-Software and VART2576 Digital Tools: Prototyping) or (VART2586 Space and Site and VART2587 Space and Display)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
Furniture Design is one of the oldest design-disciplines, having a history of roughly 40 centuries, and making this area something like a classic in itself. However, contemporary Furniture Design can also simply be seen as an applied approach to contemporary sculpture. This remarkable ambivalence of the subject allows for a rather wide range of approaches, and makes it a great area for experimentation in concepts, designs, materials, or crafting.
This course intends to equip students with basic knowledge and skills to work with the complex mix of technical, functional and aesthetical characteristics that is furniture design. It familiarizes the students with historical and theoretical aspects of furniture design, various materials for furniture making and respective crafting skills. This knowledge shall then be applied to develop one piece of furniture from its very first idea-stage to a finished object, that complies to a given class assignment as well as to a contemporary design approach.