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This module explores making as thinking, and aims to develop your practical and cognitive design skills with an understanding of materials and processes utilised in professional design and manufacture. You will explore making as a method of design research and 'knowing-by-doing'. This will include the playful exploration and exploitation of making processes that utilise both traditional hand-guided tools and digital fabrication hardware and software. The module introduces you to a variety of making practices used by professional 3D designers and researchers in ideation, improvisation and materialisation. Through this module, you will also develop an understanding of safe and sustainable workshop and manufacturing practices.

LO1: Critically engage with practice-based design research and exploration through making
LO2: Generate ideas and design proposals through virtual and physical prototyping processes
LO3: Challenge conventions in design, ideation and fabrication
LO4: Conceptualise and justify making outcomes using a range of prototyping and materialisation processes
LO5: Critically reflect on making outcomes in relation to current technological and socio-economic contexts