MA / MDes Interaction Design

Postgraduate

In Edinburgh

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Edinburgh (Scotland)

  • Duration

    1 Quarter

Course introduction: This course will equip you with creative prototyping and programming skills for design. You’ll use software and hardware to respond to a range of design briefs dealing with human interaction in spaces and through objects and interfaces. You’ll learn combined technical and creative skills and have the opportunity to shape your own ideas, concepts and theories through a self-directed major project, informed by design research and critical enquiry. This course has a strong studio culture and is taught in a multidisciplinary space within a suite of post-graduate design courses where you’ll gain skills and knowledge highly sought after in industry.

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Location

Start date

Edinburgh (Midlothian/Edinburghshire)
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Craiglockhart Campus, EH14 1DJ

Start date

On request

About this course

The entry requirements for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree in an appropriate art & design discipline, computing or product design engineering; or evidence of industry experience in an appropriate discipline. All candidates are interviewed with a portfolio of creative work or technical projects. Applicants from overseas can be interviewed by teleconference with an online portfolio. If English is not your first language, it is usually required that you sit an English language test in order to gain entry onto our postgraduate programmes. This course requires the standard...

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Project
  • Industry
  • Skills and Training
  • Prototyping

Course programme

In specialist prototyping modules you’ll develop specific skills and knowledge in Arduino and other forms of prototyping, which will inform and enable highly developed 3D outcomes in your self-directed major project. Working with specialist tutors, the major project allows you to model and develop design outcomes for human interactions. Collaboration with practitioners from other areas is encouraged. You have the option of taking an MA or MDes award, depending on whether you complete a dissertation or design project report in your final trimester. We have a strong studio culture supported by our multidisciplinary staff team of academics and industry based practitioners. You’ll develop creative, professional, strategic and contextual knowledge and skills and apply design thinking to a range of creative outcomes. This is a one year full-time course starting in September and is split up into three trimesters. Subjects include Design Research Methods Sketching in Hardware & Software 3D Prototyping or Exhibition Design Major Design Project Light Art & Projection or Digital Creative For MDes Degree - Design Project Report For MA Degree - Design Dissertation Study modules mentioned above are indicative only. Some changes may occur between now and the time that you study. You can view a list of all current modules in our module catalogue.

Additional information

You’ll gain a rare blend of creative and programming skills which are highly sought after in industry. With a physical and digital portfolio demonstrating industry-ready skills, graduates can apply for design jobs, freelance work or establish entrepreneurial ventures. You may also continue to study to MPhil or PhD level.

MA / MDes Interaction Design

Price on request