Product Design is a response to changing needs and to improve quality of life by designing creative, innovative and sustainable products. Product design is enhanced through knowledge of social, technological, economic, historical, ethical, legal, environmental and cultural factors. These factors influence the aesthetics, form and function of products.
Central to VCE Product Design and Technology is design thinking, which is applied through the product design process providing a structure for creative problem solving. Students assume the role of a designer-make to develop and apply knowledge of factors that influence design and address the design factors relevant to their design situation.
Increasingly, the importance of sustainability is affecting product design and development, and so is at the forefront throughout the product’s life cycle, and central to designing products in this course.
Unit 1: Sustainable product redevelopment
This unit focuses on the analysis, modification and improvement of a product design with consideration of sustainability. Sustainable redevelopment refers to designers and makers ensuring products serve social, economic and environmental needs.
- Teacher: Rachel O'Connor