Product Design

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You learn to design autonomous objects or products on commission. You determine your own frame of reference while working on your own collection of designs. In addition, you often get to work in Minerva's workshops, because your manufacturing process is important. Searching and finding your own starting points and methods, for example about the use of local materials or working together with users, is always your starting point. 

In any case, you experiment with the conceptual thought process that is intertwined with the practical implementation of a design. You combine materials and storytelling and think about what your design means in people's lives. You explore the boundaries of functionality in a critical way: when is something still usable? This is how you find your personal fascinations, with which you can establish your position in this field of work.