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Welcome to our course
Our course offers the opportunity to utilise expertise gathered from some of Europe’s leading furniture designers and manufacturers.
With an increasing emphasis on companies to improve and prove their carbon output it is becoming more important for there to be education supporting this.
All aspects of design should consider a sustainable element to them. But translating this to designing sustainably and transparently in industry can be a complicated ballpark.
We use a circular knowledge practice, taking industry knowledge and passing it down to future industry leaders. We look at not just the design process, but how this works in practice and what happens afterward using a circular design standard that is industry-focused, industry-led, and industry-assessed.
Katie, our course leader and Head of Design & Research here at Design Conformity will walk you through the course and explain all you need to know before getting started!
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The Design Conformity Design Course
What you will learn?
Students will learn about the importance of sustainable design, how to create a ‘Carbon Efficient’ product and most significantly, how to apply for dc certification. At the end, they will submit their design for assessment by industry professionals and receive both feedback and a carbon efficiency rating letting them know how sustainable their design is.
Meet the Instructor!
This course is led by industry expert Katryn Furmston. Katryn, better known as Katie, is our Head of Design and Research at Design Conformity. She started out as a designer-maker working with a local artist and running workshops before becoming a senior lecturer in Furniture and Product Design at Nottingham Trent University. After lecturing for 7 years, she is now undertaking a PhD looking at sustainability in furniture with a focus on helping consumers reduce waste.
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Our design principles
Our design standard and guidance is based upon circular design principles, focusing on a continuous process of carbon reduction through Reuse, Reduce and Recycle.
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