Object (Product Design)
(field of studies: Design)

• Programme: teachers from engineering and the humanities
• Specialisation: furniture, utensils, materials
• Labs: wood, metal, clay, textile and robotics

Object (Product Design) is one of three paths you can take on the Design degree at SWPS University, and you enter it after your first year. It is aimed at people who are drawn to tangible things, from furniture to utensils.

Programme: teachers from engineering and the humanities

Teaching reaches well beyond making. Lecturers cover parametric design, mechanics and construction fundamentals, philosophy, psychology and art anthropology, and the staff also includes a sociologist who researches design. A designer of objects therefore draws on engineering and the humanities alike, and you hear both perspectives in class.

Specialisation: furniture, utensils, materials

Object concentrates on shaping the three-dimensional world around us.

Its subject matter is furniture, utensils and everyday objects, together with the materials and processes they are made from.

Labs: wood, metal, clay, textile and robotics

Materials are not only discussed but handled, because the programme has:

• a woodworking workshop and a metal workshop, each with its own head
• a ceramics studio, where a graduate of the school works as assistant
• a sewing workshop run by a master tailor
• a robotics workshop built around KUKA machines

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.