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Study Details: 15 months (full time)
MA Designer Maker engages with current debates around craft and making activities in the creative industries and beyond. The course encourages exploration of materials and materiality. This includes the processes and technologies that support making.
Research will be integrated into your practice. You'll have the opportunity to design and develop innovative techniques, tools or technologies. You'll be supported in addressing ethical issues such as diversity, ecologies and inclusivity. This will help define your position as Designer Maker.
You’ll develop a project from proposal to realisation that is audience ready. discovering new materials and processes as you explore the meaning of ‘making’.
You’ll have the opportunity to access collections, makers’ studios, galleries and museums. These will help advance your critical understanding of designer maker practice.
You’ll use processes of object-based learning through access to the UAL Archives and Special Collections. These include the Camberwell ILEA and David Usborne Collections. Working with the curators you’ll explore a range of research methods and techniques. You'll explore the history of design and craft to inform future practices.
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Our MA Designer Maker graduates leave with the skills and knowledge to have careers as practitioners, creative industry professionals, curators, freelance designers, workshop leaders and teachers, as well as the potential to progress to PhD study.
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This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University. You'll start your project proposal, which will help navigate the research you will do whilst on course. You'll learn by using thinking through making, critical thinking, reflection on your activities, academic and object-based learning. These will help you understand design processes and the contemporary and historical discourses that underpin your practice. You'll develop your critical research paper to enable an integrated approach to practice and theory.
You’ll keep a reflective journal to explore the nature of your practice and skills and the types of knowledge you have engaged with. You'll have technical workshops aligned to your practice to further support your development.
At the end of this unit, you’ll submit a Research Portfolio that includes practical work, experimentations, visual material and contextual research, a Project Proposal, your ongoing Reflective Journal, an outline of your Critical Research Paper and a text evaluating your development over the unit. You'll give a verbal presentation for your Unit 1 assessment.
This unit builds on your chosen research theme in your project proposal. You'll form and test a methodology through experimentation, field work, workshops and project briefs.
You’ll define the context of your work. This will include identifying your target audiences and/or industry partners. You'll also align with current debates and discourses. There'll be opportunities to present your work and share research in a supportive environment.
Whilst you build your research and outcomes, you’ll create a research portfolio, develop your project proposal, continue your reflective journal and complete your critical research paper. You'll deliver these along with an Evaluative Text and verbal presentation for your Unit 2 assessment.
The final unit of the course will focus on the production of resolved outcomes guided by your research and defined by your Project Proposal. You'll polish your professional skills in managing your own practice and presenting yourself as a Designer Maker.
You'll submit your research portfolio, project proposal, evaluative text and resolved body of work along with a verbal presentation for final assessment. There'll be opportunities to curate and exhibit your work.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.
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