Speakers and Events
Design Demystified: Everyday products taken apart
Ever wondered what’s inside your cell-phone, toaster or running shoe?
Join our experienced industrial design staff to take a range of everyday products apart. You will be hands-on to disassemble the products, and learn about the designer’s thoughts and constraints and the materials and processes that were used to manufacture the product.
You can also learn about our programme here and find out if industrial design could be a career for you.
For the inquisitive creative mind that likes to pull things apart without your Mother telling you off!
Masters Snapshot: A presentation of current Design master projects
Massey Industrial Design graduates are constantly exceeding expectations of what students should produce, and are over-represented as award winners in international design competitions.
So what does the cutting edge of postgraduate study in industrial design look like? See and hear a selection of our current Master of Design students as they present their nearly completed Master projects. From ‘Dwell’, a sustainable soft seating design to “desirable impacts for snowboarders”. We welcome you to join us for our series of short MDes presentations.
Surplus & Creativity: Design and the Ready-Made
The 21st century is witness to the manufacture of consumer goods at unprecedented levels of production. Products of every kind, shape and form fill our homes, offices and storage spaces. These products have a life, and when it is over they are either discarded to storage, or dumped. These ready-made but surplus ‘things’ still contain embedded value, untold stories, and the possibilities of different applications and life in their third age. Using these discarded ready-made items has a long tradition in art and design.
A provocative exhibition where ready-made objects are reformed, recombined, rearranged and recontextualised to engender outrage, humour, social comment, imagination and creativity. The works have been produced by staff and Masters students in the Institute of Design for Industry and Environment at Massey’s College of Creative Arts, along with industry associates from AFFECT, the Centre for Affective Design Research at Massey University.
