Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK)
Bachelor of Culture and Arts in Smart and Sustainable Design
Hämeenlinna, Finland
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Direct application period 1.11.2023-31.3.2024
Key Summary
About: You’ll study sustainable and smart design across fashion, footwear, glass, and ceramics, learning to create ecologically and ethically produced products and services. You’ll combine traditional and modern techniques with design thinking and a material-based mindset in studio-based learning with modern facilities. Studies include active business collaboration, a commercial focus, and staff with wide global networks.
Career Outcomes: You can work as a fashion designer, footwear designer, product developer, or ceramics and glass designer. Other paths include sustainable design consultant, design manager, roles in manufacturing, retail, product development, or circular-economy entrepreneurship. Skills include creative prototyping, material knowledge, and industry collaboration.
What Will You Learn?
Are you interested in sustainable and smart design in fashion, footwear or glass and ceramics? Do you want to learn how to design ecologically and ethically produced products and services? Are you fascinated by Nordic design? The contemporary world is growing ever more environmentally conscious and technology advances with huge leaps every day. It is important that you as designer understand the importance of sustainable values and the challenges of the circular economy. You will learn how to use and combine both traditional and modern techniques with design thinking and a strong creative and material-based mindset. You will study in a studio environment with modern facilities and earn a deep understanding of the product and production. The studies include active collaboration with businesses and a commercial focus in design. The staff has vast global networks.
Degree Program in Brief
- Degree Title: Bachelor of Culture and Arts (BCA)
- Duration (Years): 4
- Extent (Credits): 240
- Location of Full-Time Studies: Hämeenlinna
- Language: English
Curricula of Smart and Sustainable Design
Are you interested in sustainable and intelligent design? Do you want to learn how to design ecologically and ethically produced products and services?
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 clothing, footwear or glass, and ceramics design. After completing your studies you will master all the steps from product design to manufacturing.
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.
