I always had an interest in design and engineering and in 2007 I graduated from the University of Dundee with a Bsc Honours Degree in Product Design. It was here my skills and knowledge in product and service design best practice developed.
In my final year of study, I chose to work with visually impaired people to design a product that improved their lives. This involved in-depth active research with elderly people who were severely visually impaired and provided the Product Design course with examples of best-practice for future years studying in this difficult design domain.
Throughout my studies on the course my expertise was grounded within the research domain of my projects – investigating people, proposing design solutions, and evaluating design impact. Thus my strengths now lie in working with people to create insights into their lives and providing an informed background for designing new products and services.
About Me
- Miss Fiona Karen Wood
- I have always had an interest in design. I am currently working on a three year PhD focused on exploring the influence of design in outdoor education on children’s early learning about sustainability. This research study is concerned with the exploration of children’s early learning experiences in outdoor education which are especially relevant to the notion of sustainability. This analysis explores the possibility of deeper underlying learning in outdoor education which would be appropriate to governmental concerns for confidence building, social learning and citizenship. The aim is to understand these deeper motivations and to design new activities and facilities which would support and extend learning in these areas without destroying the child’s enjoyment and play. This project is one of a small portfolio of design research studies from the Centre for the Study of Natural Design, University of Dundee (http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/) on the theme of ‘Nature’s Academy’.
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