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Study Details: 2 years (full time)
MA Global Collaborative Design Practice aims to train designers to tackle the critical problems of our time, such as climate change, social and racial inequality. You’ll be encouraged to explore these complex issues from both local and global perspectives and consider the role of intersectionality.
This 2-year course brings together 2 cohorts of students: 1 based at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL) in the UK and the other at Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) in Japan. Each cohort will study in-person at the partnering university for a certain period of their course.
UAL and KIT bring complementary strengths in the arts and in science, technology, and engineering to the course. You’ll explore different methods of interacting, collaborating and making.
You’ll develop creative responses to core themes and questions that underpin the course, such as:
Graduates of MA Global Collaborative Design Practice emerge with dual degrees. UAL offers a Master of Arts and KIT offers a Master of Engineering. The course will give you a unique skillset to underpin your future research and/or practice.
We will assess your application on how you demonstrate the following:
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This unit introduces key themes in cross-cultural and collaborative practice. It provides a foundation of research, fieldwork, critical thinking, problem articulation and prototyping that underpins practical work that is undertaken in future units. Throughout this unit you’ll explore intersections in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and practice responding to complex problems through a speculative design project.
You’ll gain experience with 1 or 2 digital modeling and fabrication tools as an introduction to rapid prototyping.
This unit uses mapping, visualisation and design prototyping to develop ideas and dialogues between design practitioners, project stakeholders and project beneficiaries. It focuses on local interventions into global-scale problems. Throughout this unit you’ll work with a mapping and visualisation toolkit to develop a shared understanding of a complex problem. As a group you will hone your collaboration and prototyping skills to co-create a ‘proof of concept’ design in response to this problem.
This unit presents knowledge and methods at the intersection of society and design. You’ll learn to think and act critically about designing in a socially relevant and responsible way.
You’ll undertake a project proposed by a public, private or non-profit organisation. It usually involves collaboration with local colleagues and members of the public.
Unit 6 shifts the emphasis to you to take the initiative in shaping interactions within and beyond the course through a major design project.
You’ll work with 1-3 of your peers to develop an in-depth design project that responds to a defined societal challenge of your choosing. There are 3 complementary parts: a brief, research (including desk research, immersive fieldwork, and participatory engagement) and a design prototype.
You’ll inform your approach by working collaboratively with external partners such as industry and government representatives, local organisations and/or community members who hold subject expertise and lived experience. You'll fully realise your design prototype.
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