MA Design: Contemporary designer maker
The South West offers huge potential for Designer Makers and this MA seeks to capitalise and utilise these strengths. This exciting new MA provides an opportunity for individuals to develop design ideas through an intimate knowledge of materials and making processes. Through experimentation, research and innovation, process and content are considered as interdependent and mutually enriching within a global context. We welcomed proposals from students with good university degrees or equivalent professional experience.


Aim of the programme
- To meet a need for practitioners to work with others to reflect upon their contemporary practice.
- To provide an environment that promotes passion and a culture for designing and making excellence.
- To present a framework that fosters and encourages personal development and research.


Course details
This exciting new MA provides an opportunity for individuals to develop design ideas through an intimate knowledge of materials and making processes. Materials and craft skills are not seen as an end in themselves.

Through experimentation, research and innovation, process and content are considered as interdependent and mutually enriching within a global context. You may be interested in challenging established methods or wish to explore the opportunities that cutting edge technology makes available.

The MA programme draws on the expertise of the Contemporary Designer Maker subject team, particularly in the supervision of the MA Projects, visiting lecturers and professionals within the designer maker field. All staff are actively involved as designers, makers and researchers.


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)
- Multiples and the maker * (30 credits)
- External context * (30 credits)
- Major project (60 credits)

* you can substitute one of these specialist modules with others from the suite of MA Design programmes:

- Developing a designer's eye
- Design and business
- Space typologies and transformation
- intervention and interaction
- Tangible and intangible design
- Service design
- Ethics and reality
- Designing a new process

Ask course tutor
P.L.Macpherson@plymouth.ac.uk


Bursaries available?
R.Fraquelli@plymouth.ac.uk


Apply now
arts.admissions@plymouth.ac.uk

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Tel: +44 (0)1752 585 169
Email: pete.davis@plymouth.ac.uk






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