Product & Furniture Design MA

Master

In Surrey

£ 7,600 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Surrey

  • Duration

    2 Years

The course proposes a hands-on approach to design, encompassing research techniques, teamwork, learning through making and developing finished objects intended for craft, industrial production or conceptual prototype.

Students are expected to have a robust personal approach with direction and purpose reflecting their own area of study. Students are required to be self-directed, reflective and practical in approach. The course is studio and project based. Activities can include specialist lectures, workshop inductions, group and personal tutorials, seminars and symposiums.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Surrey
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Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 7LB

Start date

On request

About this course

The Product & Furniture Design MA focuses on the future landscape of our everyday environment. You can choose to specialise in either product or furniture design, with the spirit of innovation and enterprise sought throughout both routes.

The masters project allows you to further develop your own interests and agenda, culminating in an exhibition.
Support in identifying and preparing yourself to pursue your own professional path as a designer.
Access to the large and well equipped 3D workshops on site. Allowing you to work in a large variety of materials using traditional techniques as well as the latest 2D & 3D rapid prototyping and digital cutting technologies.
Field visits and the direct involvement of specialist practitioners supplement your lectures and seminars.

Alongside your academic studies, you develop workplace skills in:
problem solving and organisation;
data collation, review and synopsis;
communication (oral, written and electronic);
time management; computing;
and co-operation and teamwork.

A good honours degree or equivalent in a related art, design or craft subject and/or appropriate professional experience.
A portfolio of work reflecting your experience and skills working in 2D and 3D.
We also welcome applicants with relevant professional or vocational experience.

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Furniture Design
  • Communication
  • Communication Design MAs
  • Fashion
  • Fashion MA
  • Design MA
  • Sustainable Design
  • Methodology
  • Philosophy

Course programme

Course structure

This course is part of the School of Design's postgraduate programme.

The structure – shared with students from the Communication Design MAs, Fashion MA, and Sustainable Design MA – enables you to explore your individual specialist interests within an integrative learning environment that provides a comprehensive understanding of the value and role of interdisciplinary methods and ways of working. The influences and impact of thinking from other related design subjects on your own specialist study is an important aspect of the identity and the community of interdisciplinary practice at masters level in the School of Design.

This structure is designed to help progress and develop your independent learning, encouraging you to construct and explore projects concerned with areas of particular personal interests. The overarching course philosophy, based upon an emphasis on research, methodology and design thinking, allows individual and personal concerns to be explored through focused study in product and furniture design.

Modules

  • Designing Research
  • Creative Futures
  • Creative Practice 1: Design Thinking & Making
  • Critical Practice
  • The Major Project
Professional placement year
  • Professional Placement

Additional information

Overseas Fee (not EU) 2019/20 -:  MA full time £15,300 MA part time £8,415

Product & Furniture Design MA

£ 7,600 VAT inc.