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Bruce Thomson, professor of industrial design at Humber College, is demonstrating how students learn to make models with 'Detroit wax'.In the fourth-year transportation design class at Toronto’s Humber College, the students are hunched over their desks, working quietly with pens in hand. Their assignment today is to create an SUV for 2030. Nobody here is idly chatting. None of the students are scrolling Instagram. They are all deep into the work of creating the future.
“The reason we started this program was to give Canadian students an opportunity to study automotive design, in Canada,” says Ken Cummings, professor of transportation design. Studying abroad at one of the handful of foreign automotive design schools is prohibitively expensive."We’re trying to make it a little more accessible.”
The school’s clay-modelling studio smells like creativity: a little bit musky with a hint of Play-Doh. Inside is a cornucopia of weird mobility. On the tables are roughly a dozen alien-looking little models. The project brief was to create a personal recreational-vehicle concept for BRP Inc., the Quebec-based manufacturer of the Ski-Doo, Sea-Doo and Can-Am Spyder.The winning design, by fourth-year student Avery Lukan, is a three-wheeled electric pod meant to be ridden like a luge sled.
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