Smart and Sustainable Design
What will you learn?
The contemporary world is growing ever more environmentally conscious and technology advances with huge leaps every day. It is important that design professionals understand the importance of green values, the challenges of circular economy and know how to use and combine both traditional and modern techniques. Service design know-how and design thinking combined with business principles know-how create a good foundation for today’s designer.
In design education you can choose your major subject in:
- Fashion
- Footwear
- Glass and ceramics design
Your journey to becoming a designer
In the first and the second year of studies you:
- gain an understanding of the work process for designing and manufacturing products / services
- learn design skills
- understand sustainable and smart design
- deepen your understanding of the industrial operating environment of product design and manufacturing
- apply the lessons learned in practice by carrying out your first work placement (internship).
Later in your studies you:
- apply your professional competence to multidisciplinary projects
- use design methods to obtain user information
- practice the principles of shared expertise and teamwork in various kinds of projects
- refine your professional activities as well as your ability to apply a systematic and research-orientated approach to your work.
- apply smart and sustainable design
- develop your skills in a work placement
- complete your thesis
Learn through doing and making
Studies are implemented in the field-specific design learning environments at Hämeenlinna University Centre. You study in modern design studio environments, where you learn how to apply theory in practice – through doing and making. Design studies are orientated towards working life and students have the opportunity to cooperate with companies in their field in various kinds of projects.
Internationalization
We courage you to become international: our numerous international partner institutions offer you many opportunities for studying (international exchange) or doing a work placement abroad.
Wypis ocen – jeśli wciąż się uczysz i dlatego nie masz jeszcze świadectwa ukończenia szkoły średniej, bardzo ważne jest załączenie wypisu. Szczegółowe informacje na temat sposobu wypełniania tego dokumentu oraz termin jego przesłania znajdziesz tutaj.
Świadectwo dojrzałości – w przypadku ukończenia szkoły średniej nie potrzebujesz wypisu ocen – wystarczy, że do formularza aplikacyjnego załączysz Świadectwo dojrzałości wraz ze świadectwem ukończenia liceum (bądź technikum).
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w jeden z następujących sposobów:
- Ocena z języka angielskiego na transkrypcie ocen lub Świadectwie Ukończenia Szkoły Średniej nie może być niższa niż 4
- IELTS Academic: 6.0
- TOEFL iBT: 60
- Cambridge C1 Advanced lub C2 Proficiency - 169
Proces selekcji
Studenci aplikujący na dany program muszą wykonać dodatkowe zadania sprawdzające:
- Zadanie, które ma na celu sprawdzenie motywacji;
- Zadanie projektowe.
Wysyłając formularz aplikacyjny Kastu prosimy o informację o wybranej specjalizacji - Clothing, Footwear lub Glass and Ceramic Design.
Smart and sustainable design education provides the ability to work as a designer in companies in different fields and in public organizations, or act as an independent entrepreneur. There is demand for the service and user experience design, where social media competence, marketing expertise and visualization expertise are combined with designer competence. People with design education are increasingly setting up their own businesses and working in a diverse range of creative industries. Professional titles include: designer, entrepreneur, product assistant, product designer, product manager, buyer, project seller and project manager.
WHAT WILL YOU BECOME?
There is a need for service and user experience design, where social media competence, marketing expertise and visualization expertise are combined with designer competence. In our design education you can choose your major subject in fashion, footwear or glass and ceramics design. After studies you will master all the steps from product design to manufacturing. Smart and sustainable design education enables you to work as a designer in companies in different fields and in the public sector, or act as an entrepreneur. Designers are increasingly setting up businesses and working in a diverse range of creative industries. Professional titles include for example: designer, product assistant, product developer, entrepreneur, project manager and buyer.
Typical job titles include:
- Designer
- Product Assistant
- Product Designer
- Product Manager
- Buying Agent
- Project Salesperson
- Project Manager
- Entrepreneur
