我们的产品设计和手工艺课程与产品设计并驾齐驱，并且这两门课程的开发目的都是为了研究围绕我们的对象的原因，从珍贵的个人物品到功能性物品。通过探索我们对物质世界的理解的学习计划，您将学习如何成为能够增强我们日常互动能力的对象的设计者和制造者。您将在创意思维和设计策略方面发展基本技能，然后将这些技能应用于挑战您为产品和工艺进行设计的方式。您将发现如何设计和生产既包含传统手工方法又包含当代机器和数字制造的对象。您的设计工作还将通过考虑您设计的对象以及所使用的材料和过程来解决各个领域的问题，包括社会问题，全球意识和
Our BA (Hons) Product Design and Craft course has a material-led, experimental philosophy that pursues a thinking through making approach to design, supporting the development of personal creative agendas. Through a programme of study that explores our understanding of the material world, you will learn how to be a designer and maker of objects that enhance our daily interactions. You will develop essential skills in creative thinking and design strategy, and then apply these to challenge how you design for product and for craft.<br>You will discover how to design and produce objects that embrace both traditional handmade approaches and contemporary machine and digital manufacturing. Through creative experimentation we strive to give ideas a material voice, as the thinking behind an object and its material execution are of equal importance. Your design work will also look to address a diverse range of areas including social issues, global awareness and local demand by considering the objects you design and the materials and processes you use. This course will enable you to explore strategies, materials and processes so you can develop creative and professional skills to support a sustainable career in design and craft making.<br>Product Design and Craft at Manchester Met builds on the success of our previous programme, BA Three Dimensional Design, which has produced influential and award-winning graduates including designer and architect Thomas Heatherwick, jeweller Ruth Tomlinson and ceramicist Joe Hartley.<br>The two courses run alongside each other and have been developed to look at the reasoning for objects that surround us, from the cherished personal possessions to the functional items that facilitate our daily life. In exploring the rich diversity of creative opportunities across the subject area, it is not the category of product that determines it as a piece of product design or a piece of product design craft, but how it has been arrived at through the creative process, underpinned by the factors that have informed and driven its creation.<br><br>The Product Design & Craft course provides a designermaker focus, pursuing experimental approaches that are often driven by individual responses to social, political and environmental issues in the creation of the designed object.<br>The Product Design course provides a human-centered focus, designing products that respond to identified needs and new market driven opportunities that aim to enhance user experience, utility and value.