Design for Cultural Commons - PG Dip
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
This postgraduate diploma offers a unique opportunity to rigorously interrogate new forms of practice in line with Commons principles. You’ll challenge unequal power relations, question planetary resource extraction and tackle the inequalities of market-focussed capitalism. The modules and project on this course will put you well on the path to developing financially stable practices for delivering ethical services and products with impact on socio-political change. Your project module in particular will help you to learn and understand appropriate methods for projects specifically aimed at making counter culture, social transformation and new models of doing and acting in the city.
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About this course
This course takes place part-time over the course of one year. Whether you’re already involved in socio-political art, architecture or design practice, or looking to enter the field, this PG Dip course will facilitate careers development or careers realignment. The connection between history and theory and practice will complement your own experiences, in turn providing a foundation for your future practice.
You may be:
An existing cultural practitioner who wants to critically reflect on their practice and analyse where to go next using the Commons as a tool for analysis or as a way to frame your practice.
An artist, designer, architect or urban designer interested in developing innovative new forms of social and ecological practice that are not offered in the conventional training of your discipline. You will learn to articulate a social, ethical and Commons-based practice which is financially sustainable.
An employee in an institution or organisation who wants to reflect on their role. Either to gain more agency, to have more impact or to develop a new socially responsible and Commons-based area within the institution or organisation.
an honours degree classification of 2.1/2.2 (or equivalent) in any subject discipline
practice experience in any field, with some understanding of working within NGOs or other third sector organisations.
an up-to-date CV and copies of award certificates
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Subjects
- Design
- Project
- Commoning Practice
- Practice
- Commoning
- History
- Theory of Commons
- Theory
- Enacting the Commons
- Enacting
Course programme
The modules listed below are for the academic year 2020/21 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.
Year 1 modules include:
- Commoning Practice (core, 40 credits)
- History and Theory of Commons (core, 20 credits)
- Project: Enacting the Commons (core, 60 credits)
Design for Cultural Commons - PG Dip
