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The goal of this course is to provide students with the ability to make an educated selection of production processes within the design process to obtain desired concept, shape and functional outputs. Students will be introduced to the most common high and low volume manufacturing processes, realize their limitations, exploit their potential, understand the moulds involved, and recognize how the products that surround us in our daily lives are created. Students will actively undertake research, detailed design assignments and workshop tasks set in the context of the design process and manufacturing processes.
By the end of the course students will be able to: 1. Select and justify appropriate production processes and materials to achieve a desired concept, design intent, or functionality.2. Recognise, research, identify, and analyse the production processes underpinning a range of manufactured products.3. Demonstrate confidence and competence in designing products that exploit common industrial production techniques.4. Explain how moulds shape products and recognise shared principles across different mould-based manufacturing methods.5. Evaluate the relationship between mass-market industrial production and lower-volume, maker-oriented, or self-production approaches.6. Apply practical skills in laser cutting, acrylic line bending, clay extrusion, rotation moulding, sand casting, and FDM 3D printing using slicer software.7. Critically engage with the work of influential historical and contemporary designers and companies, analysing how production processes inform design outcomes.
PROD112
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Barro De Gast
Domestic fee $1,190.00
International fee $6,488.00
* 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 on the departments and faculties page .