Specialist education Workshop to choose from Hours per week - 8 ECTS - 15 Type of credit - ZST
Legend: zal - passed; zst - pass with grade; exam - exam; ekm - commission exam

Individual project (basic form of classes), lecture, didactic dialogue, didactic discussion, workshop classes, seminar, e-learning.

Passing all subjects of the 1st year of SSM.

Students who want to pursue a master's diploma project at the First Furniture Design Studio are required to earlier:
- participation in the First Furniture Design Studio for at least two semesters
- participation in classes of any furniture design studio for a minimum of three semesters, including one in the First Furniture Design Studio
- implementation (in the target materials) of a minimum of one piece of furniture, in the case of the planned implementation of a diploma project in a wood model, implementation in carpentry technology is required.

 DIPLOMA PROJECT

A year-long task whose goal is to carry out a design task that is a solution to the project problem formulated by itself. Project Work aimed at presenting the mastery of skills: original, own artistic expression; conscious use of a specialist workshop; creative search for solutions to obtain individual project realizations that meet the assumed ergonomic, functional, formal and artistic requirements.

Scope of the task:
- design assumptions of the furniture (scenario)
- conceptual design of furniture (sketches of drawings, visualizations)
- furniture draft models in the reduction scale
- basic design of the furniture in a scale of 1: 5 (rectangular projections + perspective view)
- executive design of the furniture in 1: 1 scale * (working drawing in accordance with the implementation requirements)
- study model of furniture in 1: 1 scale (from substitute materials)
- implementation of a 1: 1 furniture prototype (from target or replacement materials)
- as-built technical documentation of the furniture *
- description of the furniture
- photographic documentation of the completed piece of furniture

The design documentation of the design process (design assumptions, conceptual sketches, pictures of mock-ups, basic design and photo or visualization of the completed piece of furniture) should be presented on a 100 × 50 cm (horizontal) format board.

* Technical documentation, depending on the needs and its purpose and character, can be a set of views and sections on a 1: 1 scale, A4 format notebook, containing assembly and executive drawings of elements in 1: 1 scale, or a set of executive drawings prepared for specific device.

Students completing one-semester assignments receive one grade for a project and a technical study using the full, valid rating scale.

The components of the evaluation:
independence of work -20%
assessment of the degree of involvement -20%
project submission level -15%
plastic and substantive level of the project -20%
correctness and diligence of the documentation - 15%
implementation of the prototype -10%

Public presentation (during the diploma examination) of a project task, which is a solution to the project problem formulated by itself. Mastering the skills of the original, own artistic expression; the ability to consciously use a specialized workshop; the ability to creatively search for solutions to obtain individual project realizations that meet the assumed ergonomic, functional, formal and artistic requirements.

1. Furniture design - Jerzy Smardzewski - PWRiL 2009.
2. Anthropometric Atlas of the adult Polish population for design purposes - IWP
3. Meblarstwo - basic construction and design - Czesław Mętrak - WNT 1992.
4. Furniture constructions - Irena Swaczyna - WSiP 1998.
5. Ergonomics of the flat - Etienne Grandjeane - ARKADY 1978.
6. Ergonomic Design - Edwin Tytyk - PWN 2001.
7. Furniture constructions. Technical drawing - Lesław Giełdowski - WSiP 1995.

1. Terminological glossary of furniture - J. Grzelak - PWN 1998.
2. Anatomy of wood - Wojciech Kokociński - PRODRUK 2005
3. Wood Atlas - J.D. Godet - MULTICO Publishing House 2008
4. Material science of the wood industry - J. Szczuka, J. Żurowski - WSiP 1999.
5. Stylish furniture - F. Asensio - ARKADY 2004.
6. Stylish furniture - Gyula Kaesz. - Ossolineum 1990
7. Computer-aided design - J. Gis, R. Markiewicz - REA 2008.
8. Computer-integrated furniture production - Jerzy Smardzewski - PWRiL 2007.
9. Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals - Rob Thompson - Thames & Hudson 2007.