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Product Design and Technologies is about designing and making things in an era of sustainability and user experience and sustainability, both individually and collaboratively. This subject offers a unique focus on creativity through the development and production of innovative and ethical products. Exploring your creativity while developing skills in organisation, planning and communication. You will be exploring and making in both Units 1&2, and investigating how others go about designing and making so your work is influenced by others and not done in isolation.
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Please note in 2025 Roxanne Watts will be taking this subject. Roxanne is an experienced professional Jewellery maker who also works in the Tertiary Tafe environment, and has many years of experience teaching this subject.
Some images of jewellery made by middle school students at Princes Hill.
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You will be learning about all elements of the design process Design Process and the role of the designer in society while designing and making jewellery. This has a particular emphasis on user experience and sustainable design into the future. You will develop a design folio which contains all the essential information, designing and planning necessary to make an object in your chosen materials. There will be time for investigation, class discussion and getting assistance from your teacher. There is also time to support the making of objects by learning how to use tools, equipment and learn new processes. There is about a 50/50 division between practical and theory work.
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By the end of this unit, you will have made your product. The process to arrive here will include skill and technique exploration, and materials trialing by selecting and applying materials, tools, equipment and processes to make your your product. Students will be able to work collaboratively and in teams through trialing, implementation of production and reflection stages.
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On completion of this outcome you will be able to investigate and critique products using the factors that influence design, to make judgments about the success or failure of the products to support positive impacts for end users. You will explore the role of designers across a number of industries/specializations and how they develop products with consideration to usability, consumer needs and sustainability, amonst other factors.
Outcome 2
On completion of this unit the student will be able to design and make an inclusive product that responds to a need or opportunity of an end user(s) that addresses positive impacts in relation to belonging, access, usability and/or equity.
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