RESEARCH ON DESIGN / BUILD EDUCATION WITH FURNITURE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION AS THE SUBJECT

This paper is a study of the practice of an assignment for graduate students studying design, conducted in the first semester of a class in Tokyo Metropolitan University academic year 2022. The class was conducted using a method called “design/build education,” in which students built a full-scale model of their own design. The results of the survey revealed the challenges in scheduling the half-year design/build education, such as the lack of time to produce prototypes after budget adjustments, as well as the abilities that the students thought they had acquired and the insights.