#MDXPD Product Design 2022-23

#MDXPD WELCOME from the EDITOR
Welcome, everyone, to our 8th (almost) Annual #MDXPD Magazine. Our 2022-23 magazine brings together news and student work from our 2021-22 and 2022-23 cohorts and spans that period with our news stories and features.

We continue “…bringing people and technology together (in meaningful ways)
to create useful stuff and things” with a big focus on the sustainability and inclusiveness of those ways, stuff and things.

We’ve been through revalidation, reaccreditation and big changes within Middlesex University and across the university sector during this period. Our strong philosophical and structural foundation, developed over two decades and underpinned by active multi-stakeholder co-design during our previous validation and accreditation cycle ensured that we flew through both for our BA(Hons) Product Design, in a very positive process, with high commendations from the panels and independent reviewers.
Our focus on collaborative practice, studio ‘environments’, constructivist pedagogy and team teaching holds strong for another five years!

We work to approach design and engineering within our philosophy that leads with insight, understanding and empathy, and values collaborative creativity and human and ecology centred innovation.

This encourages and nudges towards positive versions of change, in everything we do. And our students embrace our philosophy and approach, embodying it with energy, dignity and support for one another.

This year’s magazine contains our usual mix of inspirational final year major Projects, but from two year groups, alongside staff and student stories and projects from across the year. This year our special features focus on what happens to our graduates after finishing the course. We’ve got a big ‘One Year On’ feature, alongside summaries of our previous 6 Years On and 15 Years On features and an extended reflection from Robin Read, a 2008 graduate and now Associate Principal Robotics Research Engineer at Dyson. These features combine to build a rich set of stories, inspirations and reference materials for future and current students and help us to continue to explore within our ongoing project examining and evolving the definition of ‘What Is a Product Designer?’.

Good luck to all our brilliant graduates from the last two years for the future.

Welcome to all our new students. Hello again to our returning students.

We hope you enjoy the magazine. Please all take care of yourselves & best wishes to all readers.

Wyn Griffiths
Senior Lecturer BA/BEng Product Design/Engineering – Magazine Editor