The Prototyping and Craftsmanship course is part of the Industrial Design Engineering program. In this course you spend most of your time in the workshop prototyping and experimenting, in order to develop your designs for a real client.

• To apply craftsmanship skills and techniques  

• To make use of design methods, workshop facilities and tools.

• To reflect on the design decisions that are being made throughout the production of models and prototypes.

 

Prototyping and Craftsmanship course is part of the Industrial Design Engineering program. This course offers a hands-on learning experience where you’ll apply various prototyping methods and techniques to a real-world design project provided by a company or organization.

What to Expect:

·        Weekly Workshops: Engage in workshops focused on the design process, prototyping methods, and material usage.

·        Real-World Projects: Work on a design project throughout the semester, serving as your practical learning field.

·        Quality and Precision: Participate in exercises that challenge your ideas and discussions on what constitutes ‘good work’ in design practice.

This self-directed learning semester encourages you to explore, experiment, and refine your craftsmanship skills.

 

The core competencies acquired through this course are (*):

1.2.  Discover knowledge by investigating and experimenting

2.2.  Use an iterative process with diverging and converging methods and techniques

2.3.  Integrate human, market, technological, and context values during the design process

2.4.  Consider desirability, viability, and feasibility while designing and engineering

2.5. Create and optimize ideas, concepts, prototypes, and product proposals

2.6.  Evaluate ideas, concepts, and (end) products  based on requirements

4.1.  Manifest/present yourself in a (semi) professional setting

4.3.  Make deliverables tangible in a refined, communicative way

 (*)IPO/IDE competence set (based on the CDIO syllabus, general HBO competences and the IPO/IDE domain competence set)

Entry requirements:

You should have completed the propaedeutic exam of your study.

Study tools &materials:

Students need to make some extra expenses on materials and tools. Many of them can be purchased at the HHs/THUAS workshop.

You will get information about the schedule no later than a week before the start of the minor program. Please send an email to tis-minoren@hhs.nl if you haven't heard anything by then.

If you want to know more about other minors at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, view our Minorbrochure.

Study load is based on 30 ECT.

Courses and educational organization:

Content:

Unit 1( Research & Experiment)

Unit 2 (Experiment and Design)

Unit 3(Prototype and Present)

 

Teaching methods:
1. project team work

1. lectures
2. workshops

Indication of target group:

- Second and third year of Bachelor of Design and Engineering students.

- Students with other background – HBO level

 

Teaching methods & studyload:

Studyload is based on 30 ECT.

Courses and educational organisation:

Content:

Unit 1( Back to the future) - Assignments to practice prototyping skills

Unit 2 (The Craft of Designing) How to use craftsmanship in the design practice.

Unit 3(Craft is in the details)– Practicing quality in execution.

Week 18 retake

Teaching methods:
1. project work

1. lectures
2. workshops
3. Studio/workshop work

5. excursions

Partners:

Potential partners/ clients:

The Crafts Curator

Basalt Keramiek

Minimum and maximum participation:

Minimum of 10 students

Maximum of 15 students

Contact hours:

The minimal number of contact hours per week is 12 hours, for 12 weeks.