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Download a free trial version of Fusion 360 and choose a tutorial to have a go at here

• Use the ideas machine to respond to a randomised design brief – in 60 seconds

• Product Analysis- Use the principles of good design written by Dieter Rams to compare and contrast a Post Modernist lamp with a Modernist lamp.

• Inclusive features and environments - Write a report from a day out that you have, where you identify and analyse the inclusive features or lack of inclusivity when using transport, accessing shops, using products.