Week 11 Lab: Redesign Studio

Dedicated studio time to build your integrative redesign and get feedback before week 12's defense

3 May 2027

Before the lab#

Come with a product already chosen, and the packaging it currently ships in (a photo is fine if you don’t have the physical item).

In the lab#

• Justify the choice — state why your chosen product’s current packaging is a genuine redesign opportunity: what’s wrong with it, or what trade-off it’s currently making that you think is wrong.
• Work the six constraints — for each of flute/board, cubic weight, sustainability-claim honesty, returns economics, compliance, and accessibility, state what your redesign does. “Unchanged, because—” is a valid answer if you can justify it; “I haven’t thought about that one yet” is not.
• Name your hardest trade-off — identify the one pair of constraints that pull against each other hardest in your redesign, and practise defending your choice out loud with a partner.
• Get feedback — swap with another pair. Their job is to find a seventh constraint (from any earlier week) your redesign hasn’t considered, if one exists.

Afterwards#

This studio session is direct preparation for the final project. See the Assessments page for the full brief, and bring your work to week 12’s defense.