Glass - MFA/MA

This programme combines directed and self-directed practice-based studio projects with theoretical and written studies, including professional practice elements to prepare you for employment in the industry, and a lecture/seminar series to examine the wider context of your studies.

The programme focuses on providing the tools of craft and design through comprehensive professional practice workshops, focused on the specific requirements of the designer maker. You will produce a body of practical and written work on an agreed, self-initiated project. MFA students produce an additional extended body of work.

You will be encouraged to embrace new skills that are central to the glass learning experience alongside integrating new technological processes (CAD, 3D printing, CNC milling and laser cutting) and non-material processes (user interactivity, performance and sound) into your studio practice. Process-led collaborations are core to the learning experience within Glass and at ECA. Our department embraces the spectrum of possibilities.

Personal research methodologies are developed and disseminated through personal tutorials, seminar presentations and cross-departmental expositions. These tools will enable you to analytically and critically position yourself as part of the new wave of designers redefining the discipline.

Our dynamic team of experienced tutors, all established international practitioners, encourage and support students to create cross-disciplinary collaborations. We expect our postgraduate students to be independent yet able to engage in sophisticated design dialogue with tutors as a means of pushing your ideas to reach their full potential.