projects

brief 1
1/ Examine your own work patterns as a design student.
2/ Identify one product idea that would help you work more effectively (it could be an item of furniture, clothing, baggage, desk tidy etc).
3/ Design and develop your idea for production at minimal cost, preferably using existing or found materials.
4/ Now do the same for a) your grandparents b) your mother or father or c) a working mother looking after a small child.

brief 2
1/ Choose one messy work process (eg model making or painting) and one domestic function (eg food preparation or eating a meal).
2/ Take an existing table and work out a way of covering/adapting/ transforming it swiftly between your chosen work and domestic functions.
3/ Pilot your solution with a group of three friends and make amendments to the design proposal in the light of their experience.

brief 3
1/ Ask around friends, relatives and colleagues and identify someone who works frequently from home.
2/ Visit them and document their daily working life in interviews, sketches, photography and video.
3/ Propose one product or environmental improvement that could improve their working life at minimal cost.
4/ Develop the solution and ask your chosen homeworker to test it and give feedback.

brief 4
1/ Look closely at your home, or the home of a relative or a friend, on a room-by- room, space-by-space basis.
2/ Draw up a space plan of the entire environment.
3/ Suggest the best way for a workspace to be fitted into that particular domestic environment, rearranging interior elements such as partitions and furniture to create an optimum solution.