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Practical workshop skills, working with wood, metal, plastic, composites, etc., with an emphasis on building models and prototyping. Team-based open-ended product design and prototyping projects on nominated topics. Students will form teams and develop a set of product specifications, build prototypes, then evaluate the performance of the prototypes against the original specifications.
The goal of this course is to concentrate on the combination of aesthetical (form) and practical (functional and technical) implementation of design projects within the topic of folding seating. Design being the embodiment of applied art & engineering combined.The students will be encouraged to work in small groups in a studio style atmosphere alternating between creative sessions, tutor guidance, peer reviews, presentations, design critiques, prototyping and assessments.Being a second year semester two IPD course, students will be expected to be familiar with working in groups and the general design methodology process: creating a design brief, varied research methods, concept generation through to product development.The aim of this course is to concentrate on the aesthetical (shape) and practical (technical) implementation of design projects within the related topic. Design being the embodiment of applied art & engineering combined.Students will be encouraged to work in small groups in a studio style atmosphere, alternating between creative sessions, tutor guidance, peer reviews, presentations, design critiques and assessments.The first 5 weeks of the course will not only provide students with the ability to create redesigns of existing products, within a predefined design style/image and in context to design choices related to the production processes employed, but to also study ergonomics, analyse mechanisms and discover technical assembly solutions.The latter 10 weeks (7 + 2-midterm-lecture-break + 1-study-week) will be dedicated to the students developing their principal space saving design projects in the form of a product of their own choosing (within the course theme) as a culmination and putting into practice of their acquired experiences.
Students will practice & apply their sketching, illustration and 3D CAD modelling within the design, development and presentation of design projects.Students will become familiar with designing a product according to specific styles, corporate identities and brand values.Students will be introduced to the basic principles of ergonomics and discover where comfort and ergonomics lie (folding chairs case study).Students will put into practise their knowledge of production processes and materials in the ideation of creative redesign solutions that are native to the processes proposed.Students will familiarise themselves with the basic planar linkage mechanisms present in folding chairs, recognising similarities and experimenting with variations.Students will develop sketch and proof of concept models as part of the product development process, culminating in full / scaled prototypes.Students will be introduced to static structural design & force flow visualization and perform analysis demonstrating structural design validation, geometric, and material selection.
1) PROD101 and 2) either PROD211 or PROD212
Barro De Gast
Alison Lowery
Nick Emerson
40% Individual Project Work consisting of various submissions; Style & Process Designs, Concept Proposals, CAD iterations.60% Group Work consisting of; Technological & Design Analysis, Linkage mechanisms, Ergonomic Analysis, Developmental models, Presentations & communication, Final Project Folio & Posters, Technical Drawings and Model/Prototype.Students will submit Peer review evaluations regarding their group work. As a result a multiplier ranging from 0.7 to 1.1 will be applied to the group grades for the individual team members.In addition to an overall 50% pass, students must obtain a minimum of 50% on the average of their individual marks to pass the course.
Chris Lefteri; Making it – Manufacturing techniques for product design ; Laurence King Publishing, 2019.
Chris Lefteri; Materials for Design ; Laurence King Publishing, 2014.
Per Mollerup; Collapsibles, the genius of space-saving design ; 2006 Thames & Hudson, 2006.
Per Mollerup. Collapsibles, the genius of space-saving design. Thames & Hudson (2006). ISBN-10: 0500513015. ISBN-13: 978-0500513019
The prerequisite for this course 1) PROD101 or PROD213, and2) either PROD211 or PROD210
Domestic fee $1,833.00
International fee $8,975.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see School of Product Design .