MA Design: Spatial Practice
The course fosters a creative, intellectual & critical spatial design platform for students to develop a body of design 'tools' crossing the boundaries between architecture, public realm design, interior design & urban planning These interrogate the complex and transforming relationship between space, culture, media, technology, society and environment.


Special Features
- Synthesises new innovations in spatial constructs.
- Driven by advances in technology, theory & practice.
- Interactive, experimental & professional.

Course details
MA Design: Spatial Practice addresses the critical understanding of spatial design by examining progressive space/place (re)generation strategies.

The course provides a nexus for advanced critical theory & design, by challenging spatial related issues, through generating spatial prototypes & interdisciplinary design practices - fostering exploration & analysis of spatial intelligence. The curriculum crosses the boundaries between architecture, public realm design, interior design and urban planning.

The framework investigates place making, urban regeneration, reflexive technologies, and user experience in the development of innovative insights.

A series of lectures, seminars and tutorials are scheduled to enable opportunities to develop specific spatial practice design skills along side a more generic creative awareness.


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)
- Typologies and transformations * (30 credits)
- Interventions and Interactions * (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
- Tangible and intangible design
- Service design
- Ethics and reality
- Designing a new process
- Multiples and the maker
- External context

Ask course tutor
mathew.emmett@plymouth.ac.uk


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


Apply now
arts.admissions@plymouth.ac.uk

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