VCE Product Design and Technologies offers students a unique focus on creativity through the development and production of innovative and ethical products. Through the study of VCE Product Design and Technologies students become solution-focused and equipped to deal with both the interdisciplinary (interrelationship of multiple disciplines) and transdisciplinary (when disciplines interconnect to form new ideas) natures of design. This is achieved through collaboration (shared work) and teamwork (working on own tasks with a common goal to others), work practice in designing and making, and development of speculative, critical and creative thinking skills. Students work with a variety of materials, tools and processes to develop their skills to create products based on design and production skills in  textiles and fashion.  All of this contributes to the real-life industry relevance of this course. 

Units

• Unit 1: Design practices

• Unit 2: Positive impacts for end users

• Unit 3: Ethical product design and development 

• Unit 4: Production and evaluation of ethical designs