Course units
Unit 1: Discover and define
This unit offers an introduction to your course, the College and the University. First, you’ll present your current portfolio of work, sharing and exchanging ideas and techniques with your peers.
You’ll then participate in a series of short exercises to help you fully define your research interests. To contextualise and test your research ideas, you’ll be encouraged to explore physical spaces and undertake direct observational and spatial investigation. This will provide a basis for your research-led proposal. We also aim to run several optional live projects with partners.
Unit 2: Define and develop
Unit 2 will help you position your creative practice within broader social and professional contexts. Through experimentation, you will start to focus and refine your research-led proposal. To help you learn new techniques and expand your creative practice, you’ll also participate in a collaborative activity with other MA design students.
By the end of this unit, you will have produced studio practice-based developmental work to add to your portfolio along with an extended written paper covering all the work you’ve completed during unit 1 and 2.
Unit 3: Develop and deliver
This final unit of the course is about taking the final steps toward resolving and presenting your research and proposal developments through your ongoing practice. The aim is to fully communicate the body of work you have undertaken in a format that is appropriate to the nature of your project.
You’ll be expected to demonstrate how your practice has developed and evolved throughout the course and highlight how it relates to key contextual and theoretical perspectives.
The unit concludes with the submission of your portfolio and written research work. Past projects have included online or physical exhibitions with drawings, models, installations, video work and performance.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.