WUP – Product Design 22/23
BA Major Design
BA Design Warm-Up – Foundation Course
Winter semester
WUP – Product Design
The aim of this varied and intense semester is to open the students to the vast and multi-faceted field of three-
dimensional design. This semester will initiate a process of professional individual learning and prepare the students for the project-based semester work as practiced in the faculties study model. The course aims as well at forming a healthy habitus as a (future to be) professional designer while at the same time, founding of a solid and wide base for the further and more profound studies in the field. The course ‘WUP-product design’ is comprised out of three parts, two of them are taking place within 1/8 this main course, the third part are the workshop-courses (officine) held at the different workshops.
Part 1 -Ways of Working: Everyday
-Process tools and work-methodology
Everyday we get up and repeat a series of actions, gestures, rituals that accompany us throughout the day until the moment we close our eyes, everyday these habits of ours are enabled and closely connected to a wide scope of objects. We are literally surrounded by them, in this semester we will study and analyse these objects from multiple points of view, their history, their typology, their use and then move on to designing them.
Part 2 -Ways of Doing: Model Making
‘Hands on’ tools of model making and variation creation
This is a series of manual model making workshops dealing with diverse aspects: the concept and state of mind of model making itself, variation making, proportions, three-dimensional orientation and manipulation, transformation from 2d to 3d, tolerance and accuracies, learning to work and ‘feel’ different materials, scales and many more. This part includes 3-5 assignments which are partly linked to each other and are as well loosely connected to the semester theme of ’Everyday’. The techniques learned and practiced would naturally be used to conclude the main project.
