Courses
VART3257 Product Design (S) (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
Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple, said that "Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."
Product design is a creative discipline, which combines art and technology, ideas and materials, to improve our daily lives, protect our health and create new opportunities for the industry. It is the intention of this course to exactly foster this kind of imaginative design ideas and solutions that will make the world not only a more beautiful, but also a better place.
For this purpose the course will extend students' knowledge of materials and processes – especially in applied technologies like 3D-printing – and support students to develop their ideas through several stages of exploration, testing and re-developing to ultimately come up with artefacts that are conceptually sound, technically and economically feasible, yet also e.g. ecologically sustainable.
Students will understand that the right choice of materials in combination with the appropriate processes in design and production are inseparably linked to the look and performance of any product.