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Smart and Sustainable Design

Bachelor of Culture and Arts 4 years 240 credits Hämeenlinna

Become a creative changemaker who can help to solve the challenges of future with design.

Content of Your Studies

Use and combine both traditional and modern techniques with design thinking-based design process. Develop a strong creative and material-based mindset. Learn by doing in our modern design studios. You can study fashion, footwear, glass, and ceramics design. Expand your skills for example in these areas:

• sustainable and circular design • digital tools in product development • professional materials and manufacturing methods • design business

Familiarize yourself with the possibilities of digitalization and latest technologies. Smart design techniques and methods are applied in multidisciplinary product development projects in collaboration with companies. We courage you to become international: our international partner institutions offer many opportunities for internationalization.

What Will You Learn?

Learn to tackle sustainability challenges and opportunities in a design process. Familiarize yourself with the possibilities of digitalization and latest technologies in designing sustainable products and services. Understand the importance of design thinking, learn about business possibilities and master the professional materials and manufacturing methods.

What Can You Do?

After graduation, your will master all the steps from product design to manufacturing. You can work as a designer or product developer in companies and organizations in different fields or become an entrepreneur.

www.hamk.fi/design

Full time studies: 8–16 model Study at Hämeenlinna University Centre together with your international study group. I am very pleased with the program as we are not only getting the practical skills, but it also boosts our creativity, which is a very important for a designer.