Parametrics and Robotics
You will learn how to use digital tools to create algorithms leading to design solutions, how to make technical and design drawings and prepare photographic and film documentation of your projects.
This is where technology and handicraft are tightly intertwined
Forget a notebook and a pen. Cut your nails short, and gather your hair in a ponytail. Once you figure out what, how, and for whom you want to design, you will roll up your sleeves and do it yourself. In the ceramics studio, you will get covered in white dust, while in our woodworking workshop, you will be pulling out wood chips from under your collar. We can also guarantee that our KUKA robot will not listen to you the first time you try to command it.
About the program
Level
Undergraduate
(Bachelor's Degree)
Duration
4 year (8 terms)
Mode
Full-time program
Language
Studies in English
Tuition
EUR 7,250 per year
Admissions are now open.
You will learn to design everyday objects
How do people sleep, eat, and rest? Why do they surround themselves with certain objects? Product Design is not only about aesthetics, but also about the knowledge of materials, tools, and processes, throughout their whole lifecycles, on the one hand, and on the other hand about understanding of basic behaviors as well as environmental and cultural contexts. It is an activity geared towards problem solving paralleled with thinking about individuals, communities, the natural environment and the future.
Functional design
Ceramics, furniture, and textiles
You will complete individual and team projects in the fields of ceramics, furniture making, textiles, and interaction design. While working on these projects you will also develop a prototype, technical documentation and a description.
Parametric design
Materials science
Design Tools
You will focus on your favorite tools and practice skills related to the equipment that will become part of your future career. You will acquire knowledge about design tools, such as materials and their properties and how to select them, taking into consideration their color palette and texture.
Master classes
Meeting with designers
You will participate in Master Classes, led by our collaborators, renowned professionally active designers, who work in Poland and abroad.
During Master Classes you will have an opportunity to learn about new tools and design strategies, but most of all, you will meet acclaimed individuals, specializing in design and related disciplines, such as science, art, and business.
Internship
Cooperation with companies
You will complete over 800 hours of internship, providing you with an excellent opportunity to use your practical skills in an actual professional environment.
School of Form offers you the chance to complete your practicum with one of our partnering businesses/organizations; however, you may also secure the internship with another organization of your choice.
What do Product Design students do?
Path of study
Choose your tool path
During your third year of study, you will select your tool tract. You can choose between:
Analog Path
In the Analog Path, you will perfect your construction skills, expand and improve your knowledge of traditional materials and handicraft techniques.
Your potential career path
- industrial product designer
- designer working for a design studio
- home furnishings designer (furniture, lighting, ceramics)
- pattern designer (textiles)
- project coordinator in design teams
- set designer
Digital Path
In the Digital Path, you will learn everything there is to know about robotics, parametric design, and digital design software.
Your potential career path
- photographic stylist
- designer of new materials and technologies
- designer in the R&D team (research and development)
- designer in a startup team
- owner of a design studio
- manufacturer, artisan
Our staff
Practitioners and theorists, designers, and researchers
At the School of Form, our team includes respected practitioners — designers whose knowledge and expertise are continually validated by the ever-changing demands of the marketplace; experienced educators who have designed the curriculum; and researchers and theorists whose scholarly pursuits address the profound social, cultural, and environmental influences of design.
Bartosz Mucha
Produck Design program coordinator
Our Product Design program sensitizes students to the near and far environment, in which people live. We treat daily rituals as a performance, which after all, requires a friendly set design and adequately designed props.
Lecturers
Dominik Cudny
Head of the photo-video studio, a professional photographer by choice, a psychologist by education
Bio
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
Artistic director at School of Form, Dean of Faculty Design in Warsaw
Bio
Łukasz Jędraszczak
Assistant in the Numerical machines workshop, graduate of architecture and urban planning at Warsaw University of Technology, huge fan of lego
Bio
Stanisław Macleod
Assistant in the woodworking and metal workshop, furniture and product designer, graduate of Glasgow School of Art
Bio
Paulina Matusiak
Graphic Designer
Bio
Estera Mrówka
Assistant in the Screen Printing and Drawing Studio, she explores the artistic possibilities of utilizing drawing in illustration, workshop graphics, ceramics, and sculpture
Bio
Szymon Pasierb
Head of the woodworking and metal workshop, furniture and product designer, graduate of London Metropolitan University
Bio
Our students' projects
You will develop, execute, and document your project
“Perełka" - Original furniture design as a metaphor for Alzheimer's disease
Pierogi Stories
Tiny pleasures
The Feast
Everything there was black
Algorithmic seams. Designing fashion with generative AI tools
Described Land
Boredom and Laziness
Smell as a forgotten sense or how our sense of security smells
studios and workshops
You will benefit from professional studios
You will have an opportunity to work in our specialized studios and workshops equipped with state-of-the-art tools and machines. This way, you will be able to work on your own projects, including those extending beyond the curriculum, and consult your work with teachers. Some studios and workshops are accessible to students during school hours. Others are open at specific times and students may work there under the supervision of teaching assistants and specialists.
Software
You will get to use professional Adobe software throughout your studies
Our university is the first and only one in Poland to join the Adobe Creative Campus program. What does this mean for you?
- You will have access to the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite, including top-tier programs like Acrobat, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Lightroom, InDesign, and Animate.
- You can use these tools not just in university labs but on all your devices.
- You will also get the extended version of Adobe Express for Higher Education, which includes GenAI features and a vast library of templates and images.
- You will have the opportunity to join the Adobe Ambassadors program, where you can participate in unique classes and projects, adding valuable experience to your resume.
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