MA Design: Sustainable Futures
The big question for Design is the realisation that low natural resources and depleted climate conditions will deeply affect how Design functions and how Design will to respond to meet these challenges, Sustainable Futures places its designers at the heart of these questions.


Course details
The discipline of Design is evolving and responding to rapid commercial and technological advances as well as responding to diminishing resources and concerns over climate change. We want to be part of that evolution and respond to one of the challenges facing the twenty first century.

These design opportunities will reflect current needs of materiality concern, business, research, and academic requirements. The course will be progressive, have a richness and rigour while addressing the multi-disciplinary nature of design, real socio-economic issues within a dynamic, creative studio environment.

A series of lectures, seminars and tutorials are scheduled to enable opportunities to develop specific sustainable 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)
- Ethics and reality * (30 credits)
- Designing a new process * (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
- Space typologies and transformation
- Intervention nd interaction
- Multiples and the maker
- External context

Ask course tutor
pete.davis@plymouth.ac.uk


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


Apply now
arts.admissions@plymouth.ac.uk

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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






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