Sustainable Product Design with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)
Buckinghamshire New University
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On this course youll discover how to craft products from scratch, taking them from scale drawings to the final prototype. Youll lean towards an environmentally aware and technologically innovative approach, supported by a sound understanding of cultural and critical insight and user behaviour.This product design degree course offers you the opportunity to successfully design innovative and functional products that include a successful interface between products and users. Youll become a ...Read more

On this course youll discover how to craft products from scratch, taking them from scale drawings to the final prototype. Youll lean towards an environmentally aware and technologically innovative approach, supported by a sound understanding of cultural and critical insight and user behaviour.This product design degree course offers you the opportunity to successfully design innovative and functional products that include a successful interface between products and users. Youll become a multi-disciplinary designer who have a focus on sustainability within Product Design. Youll adapt and work on a range of different products for different industries, whilst gaining hands-on knowledge on how to work with materials, processes, components, and products to meet user requirements.During your time studying this course youll develop and grow as a sustainable designer with advanced design knowledge and skills. Youll use your new learnt knowledge to consider, incorporate and communicate your knowledge and apply your skills in the professional development of sustainable products, both 3D and 2D.By working through a sequence of challenging projects, you will acquire a wide range of creative and technical skills, which enable you to complete sustainable design projects from the stages of consultation and research through to final product presentation. Youll learn how to communicate an idea from concept, to functioning product.

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18/101
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Phillip
10 Jan 25

Not much to improve on. But the deadline dates could be improved as 2 large deadlines back to back probably not..Read more

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Jasmine
18 Dec 24

For the most part it’s been lovely, in the first year we got £150 towards supplies but that would’ve been good to continue through the years not just the first but still a nice..Read more

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,250 per year

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£15,150 per year

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£15,150 per year

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£15150 Per year

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P
Phillip
10 Jan 25
Sustainable Product Design BSc (Hons)
Not much to improve on. But the deadline dates could be improved as 2 large deadlines back to back probably not...
Read more
J
Jasmine
18 Dec 24
Sustainable Product Design BSc (Hons)
For the most part it’s been lovely, in the first year we got £150 towards supplies but that would’ve been good to continue through the years not just the first but still a nice...
Read more
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Buckinghamshire New University
Queen Alexandra Road High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP11 2JZ United Kingdom
Nearest train station: High Wycombe  0.2 miles away

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