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Presenting a framework that will contribute to the progression of your career
across the wider realm of design.
MA Design
This MA is a leading edge programme detailed for the demands of the today's creative industries. MA Design offers IDEO's world-class design-innovation programme that is focused, comprehensive and relevant to industry. Students undertake a series of assignments to develop an area of interest or particular direction they wish their careers to follow. We welcome proposals from students with good university degrees and others with professional experience.
Aims of the programme
- To offer a world-class Design programme that is focused, comprehensive and relevant to professional practice.
- To provide an environment that promotes passion and a culture for 'Design Excellence' and 'Design Thinking'.
- To present a framework that fosters and encourages personal development that will contribute to career progression across the wider realm of design.
Course details
There is a new set of characteristics designers need to employ in order to be successful. In addition to creativity, designers have to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to design; they have to communicate a 'point of view' and they need a certain entrepreneurial spirit and tenaciousness to succeed.
We want to teach 'Design' not only to be fun, engaging and rewarding but also to reflect today's requirements to be a successful designer in business. MA Design is informed by IDEO's world-class design process that is focused, comprehensive, and relevant to industry.
MA Design is a compact, fast paced programme run by experienced professional designers, researches and educationalists. The course is aimed at students who wish to develop their skills in dealing with the multidisciplinary nature of professional design practice and consultancy, and the application of design as a potent and creative business tool.
Programme content
At masters level you work autonomously, learning specific skills and developing an understanding of your chosen field. The 4 taught modules are designed to develop individual practice and critical and theoretical understanding.
- Creative design processes (30 credits)
- Design thinking (30 credits)
- Developing a designer's eye * (30 credits)
- Developing a designer's eye * (30 credits)
- Major project (60 credits)
* you can substitute one of these specialist modules with others from the suite of MA Design programmes:- Tangible and intangible designAsk course tutor
- Service design
- Space typologies and transformation
- Intervention and interaction
- Ethics and reality
- Designing a new process
- Multiples and the maker
- External context
pete.davis@plymouth.ac.uk
Bursaries available?
R.Fraquelli@plymouth.ac.uk
Apply now
arts.admissions@plymouth.ac.uk
Contact Pete Davies, School of Architecture, Design & Environment, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1752 585 169
Email: pete.davis@plymouth.ac.uk
www.3Ddesign.org.uk
Updated 5 Dec 2010
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