| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | - |
| 2023-11-01 | - |
Program Overview
Do you have a passion for furniture design and making? Are you constantly trying to figure out how to improve existing and create new 3D designs? Do you know your mortice from your tenon?
This course is for passionate innovators who want to get hands-on and bring ideas to life. Taught at our High Wycombe campus, you’ll get the opportunity to build up your skills whilst studying in one of the most renowned furniture making towns of the UK.
Program Outline
Modules
This provides a guide of the modules that make up your course. You can find more information about how your course is structured on our
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Foundation Year Core Modules Credits
Preparing for Success: Knowledge and Creativity
Credits
The module will prepare you for successful progression into academic study while allowing you to learn about and prepare yourself for employment in the twenty-first century through inquiry-based learning, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.
Preparing for Success: Self-development and Responsibility
Credits
This module enables you to begin developing the Bucks Graduate Attributes associated with leadership and self-development and social and ethical awareness and responsibility, which are essential for success in higher education and in the world of work.
Inquiry Based Learning
Credits
Delivery of this module is based on ‘confirmation inquiry’ – a foundational level of inquiry geared for developing your understanding of key concepts and themes as well as basic methodologies and approaches to academic work, relevant to your discipline. You’ll then have the opportunity to analyse a problem or question that relates to your subject a...
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Inquiry Based Learning
Credits
Delivery of this module is based on ‘confirmation inquiry’ – a foundational level of inquiry geared for developing your understanding of key concepts and themes as well as basic methodologies and approaches to academic work, relevant to your discipline. You’ll then have the opportunity to analyse a problem or question that relates to your subject area.
Introduction to Design and Development
Credits
This module aims to give you an introduction to design principles stimulating creative thinking and problem solving within the areas of architecture, interior & spatial design, product & production design.
Year 1 Core Modules Credits
Craft Skills 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module provides the core foundation of craft skills, providing a solid foundation in the use of tools and techniques across a range of media. It provides a practical understanding of the use of basic hand tools and the safe operation of machinery used in the making of products and furniture.Materials and Processes 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module will introduce you to the creative potential of a range of materials including metal, wood and plastics. Understanding of these materials will be achieved through hands on experience and demonstrations of associated core processes.Design Communication 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module will provide an understanding of the design fundamentals needed to be proficient in furniture design. It will cover design thinking, user centred design and design applications for furniture design and manufacture. This will include methods to communicate design processes and problem-solving using design principles.Sustainable Practice 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module will introduce you to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where the basic objectives of sustainability in relation to products are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create healthy, productive environments. It will highlight the role of the design and furniture industry in minimising the impact on...
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Sustainable Practice
Credits
20.00
This module will introduce you to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where the basic objectives of sustainability in relation to products are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create healthy, productive environments. It will highlight the role of the design and furniture industry in minimising the impact on the natural environment.
Critical and Historical Thinking 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module introduces you to the skills and perspectives needed to research, analyse, speak and write about images, objects and designed spaces. It familiarises you with several historical and contemporary topics and issues, alongside the development of skills in research, critical analysis and communication, and interpretive strategies appropriat...
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Critical and Historical Thinking
Credits
20.00
This module introduces you to the skills and perspectives needed to research, analyse, speak and write about images, objects and designed spaces. It familiarises you with several historical and contemporary topics and issues, alongside the development of skills in research, critical analysis and communication, and interpretive strategies appropriate to studio-based art & design disciplines.
Year 2 Core Modules Credits
Testing, Jig construction and Prototyping 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module extends the practical knowledge and skills required in the production of furniture. You’ll cover the design and making of aids and supports for complex components, elements of furniture that are challenging to secure and work safely using normal fastenings. It will also enable you to produce structures (rigs) that can be used to test co...
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Testing, Jig construction and Prototyping
Credits
20.00
This module extends the practical knowledge and skills required in the production of furniture. You’ll cover the design and making of aids and supports for complex components, elements of furniture that are challenging to secure and work safely using normal fastenings. It will also enable you to produce structures (rigs) that can be used to test components or several components, to ensure the longevity of their furniture designs.
Advanced Materials and Technology 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module enables you to discover and examine advanced materials and technologies for design, manufacture and production available within the furniture design industry. It provides a comprehensive understanding of traditional and modern materials employed in the making of furniture, the evolution of technologies used and the impact on production ...
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Advanced Materials and Technology
Credits
20.00
This module enables you to discover and examine advanced materials and technologies for design, manufacture and production available within the furniture design industry. It provides a comprehensive understanding of traditional and modern materials employed in the making of furniture, the evolution of technologies used and the impact on production efficiencies and sustainability.
Design Visualisation 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module will be aimed at developing your understanding of the methods and benefits of computers in the design and manufacture of products and furniture. It should provide opportunities for the use of CAD and CAM software, to include draughting, design, control of CNC machine tools and to produce models and prototypes.Professional Studies for Furniture Design 20.00
Credits
20.00
This module aims to support your employability by encouraging you to consider and evaluate your furniture design practice within a professional context, and to develop an understanding of the key considerations required to support practice. It’ll inform you about the structures and organisations which underpin professional practice within the furni...
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