Wood product design (5 cr)

Objective

- you can choose suitable materials and utilise them in product design
- you can choose the most suitable manufacturing methods for the desired final result

Content

What has to be taken into consideration when designing wood products?
What is a functional, durable and useable wood or wood-based material like?

Evaluation

Students can
3a. use professional vocabulary systematically 3b. look for information in the key information sources of the field
3c. identify interrelated tasks
3e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field
3g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field

Course material

Kalustemuotoiludesign. Holmberg. P.2000
Käyttäjä tuotekehityksessä tieto, tutkimus, menetelmät. Hyysalo. P.2009.
Ergonomia. Launis, Lehtelä. Työterveyslaitos P. 2011
The Measure of Man&Woman revised edition. Tilley. Henry Dreyfuss associates. P. 2002
Sittmöblers mått. Berglund Erik. P.2001. (huom. vaikea saatavuus)
Syventävää kirjallisuutta:
Bauhaus 1919-1933, Droste, M. Taschen
Furniture design. Sembach, Leuthauser, Gössel. Taschen
Art of japanese joinery. Seike.
Available in Learn platform.

Study forms and methods

Xamk tarjoaa opiskelijoilleen mahdollisuuden suorittaa opintojaan joustavasti eri elämän tilanteita mukaillen. Opiskelijoille on tarjolla kolme oppimisväylää: työviikkopohjainen oppimisväylä, opintoja nopeuttava oppimisväylä sekä työssäkäyntiin integroitu oppimisväylä.

Työviikkopohjainen oppimisväylä lukujärjestyksen mukaan.

Student workload

5cr is 135h where contact teaching is 70h and independence working is 65h

Further information

You will designs and manufactures a wood prototype, as well as your technical documentation. The object of the design may be furniture, fixtures or some other utensil. The theme is domestic wood species or wood products. The product must be safe and implemented in accordance with standards. You should take into account the user information related to the product, e.g. ergonomics. Wood products are also strongly associated with the concept of quality, which is based on the right choice of materials and manufacturing methods. A more detailed description of the task on the Learn platform. you can do frames or sun glasses to yourself to your friend or to the customer

You can manufacture the product for yourself, a friend, or an outside customer. However, the design perspective must be industrial manufacturing.

The course includes the cost, because the manufacture of the product containing material and manufacturing costs
Partner in the Pro Puu Association, Lahti

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Student's self-reflection and peer evaluation
Evaluation of learning exercise
Active participation