Sustainable Product Design BA(Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Falmouth
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Falmouth
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
Be able to tailor projects to your own areas of interest.
Develop your creativity to design innovative solutions that address global sustainability challenges.
Be encouraged to take a proactive approach to building your network, with opportunities to meet industry practitioners through study visits.
Take optional study week trips to places such as Stockholm Furniture Fair and Milan Design Fair.
Design and create your own projects in your third year; you’ll have the opportunity to link with an industry partner or work on an independent project.
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About this course
You’ll explore social, moral and ethical aspects of product design, learn how to create products with a lifetime far beyond what’s typical and explore how to change human behaviour and improve sustainability.
Our graduates have taken on careers ranging from in-house toy designer for Hamleys, to product designers for Tangerine and Lowe Alpine, to consultant for Environmental Resources Management.
104 - 120 UCAS points, primarily from Level 3 qualifications like A-levels, a BTEC Extended Diploma or a Foundation Diploma.
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Subjects
- Design
- Project
- Product Design
- Sustainable Design
- Designers
- Design Process
- Design techniques
- CAD
- CAD/CAM
- 3D
- 3d design
- Manufacturing
- Technologies
- Design in Context
- DESIGN CONCEPTS
- Digital Manufacturing
- Design practice
Course programme
You’ll develop creative and conceptual skills by exploring major modern issues, the visual language of sustainable design, and its critical and theoretical processes. We’ll help you professionally communicate your ideas by teaching you drawing, model-making and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) skills, and introducing you to digital Rapid Manufacturing technologies.
You’ll also have the chance to go on local, national and international trips to exhibitions and events like the Milan Furniture Fair.
Modules
- Design in Context
- Materials, Form and Aesthetics
- Sustainable Design Concepts
- Designing in the Real World
- Digital Manufacturing
- Sustainable Design Practice
You’ll study inclusive design and user-focused research, before collaborating on projects with industry partners. This will build your teamwork skills and uncover possible career paths. You’ll also develop your CAD skills and debate the contexts, concepts and ethics of the industry.
Focusing on the business of design, you’ll explore what’s involved in producing a product - from intellectual property to cost and profitability. And you’ll have the chance to study abroad in countries like Finland, Iceland and the Netherlands.
Modules
- Inclusive Design
- Community
- The Business of Design Networks
- Personal Project
- Design Portfolio
You’ll explore current and original design opportunities, develop your ideas through tutorials and team discussions, and turn your concepts into prototypes using skills like digital manufacturing. By delivering one-to-one and group presentations, you’ll focus on professional practices and management.
There’ll be opportunities to gain real-world experience by working with external project partners, and make potential work connections through external networks, project partners and start-ups.
Modules
- Design Vision
- Designing Change
- Dissertation Project
- Change Maker
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Sustainable Product Design BA(Hons)