How are designs turned into products? What resources, materials and methods used and what set of activities that goes under the heading of ‘manufacturing’ ? This unit will introduce manufacturing as a system and will describe some of the many different ways of making products. We will illustrate how the required properties of the materials in a... View course on original website...

This unit looks at the process of design – from assessing the complexity of design as an activity, to exposing the difficulty in making general conclusions about how designers work. You will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety of designed objects and evaluate the impact of this innovation. View course on original website...