Product Design
Postgraduate
Online
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Methodology
Online
Our MA Product Design course provides a conceptual process and context for the development of creative and innovative products. This includes the study of socio-cultural and economic issues, new technologies and creative visual language in relation to your practice.
As a student on our course, you'll undertake individual research projects using an integrated product design process. You'll also develop and communicate design solutions which align with design criteria and respond to broader issues such as lifestyles, markets or the information economy.
About this course
On this course you'll benefit from seminar sessions with visiting professional product designers. They'll provide critical feedback to advance your design concepts to prototype stage, in order to ready them for final exhibition and commercial manufacture.
You'll also have seminar sessions with visiting professional product designers, who provide critical feedback to advance your design concepts to prototype stage, ready for final exhibition and commercial manufacture.
The Centre for Sustainable Design is based at our Farnham campus, too. This research centre facilitates discussion and research on eco-design, and broader sustainability considerations, in product and service development.
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Subjects
- Design
- Project
- Product Design
Course programme
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
You'll be introduced to the University and the technical workshops and facilities available to you. The first stage includes a range of lectures and seminars and you’ll start to explore your creative practice.
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- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stages-
Theory and Analysis
This unit focuses on challenging and confirming your practice through the development of critical reading, observation, handling and thinking deeply about products and craft artefacts and contextual research associated with your work and the field of enquiry surrounding it.
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Exploratory Practice
This unit is concerned with the exploration of creative product design practice, in order to inform the detailed development of your project proposal for stages two and three of the course. The unit provides a structured framework to allow you to investigate the potential of methods, ideas and themes in your discipline.
During stage two you begin developing your MA project, evaluating and testing out the aims of your proposal over a sustained period of self-directed study.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stages-
Reflective Practice
Reflective practice is one of the most important concepts for a creative practitioner. It enables you to become critically aware and allows you to develop and progress your practice independently. The work undertaken in this unit should begin to address the research questions you explored in the Exploratory practice unit. Work completed for this unit should be considerably more resolved and establish a clear line of inquiry through selected materials, concepts and a clearly articulated context. You'll also have the opportunity to complete a period of professional practice during this unit.
In the third stage of the course, you'll apply the knowledge gained through your research to create a final body of work.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stages-
Major Project
The final phase of your MA study requires the production of a portfolio, including finished interaction models and product prototypes of a high quality. In addition to considering the aesthetics and form of design studies, the final product design unit needs to represent the quality and purpose of your design process, combining academic and practical skills to realise design concepts that demonstrate your design identity and profile.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stagesProduct Design