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Study Details: 15 months (full time)
MA Textile Design encourages transformative, multi-disciplinary and collaborative approaches to design. Socially responsible, ethical and inclusive designerly thinking and sustainable creative exploration are core values that underpin the course. You’ll be encouraged to take a conceptual and speculative approach. You’ll build on your existing creative practice and skills redefining these within the context of your future career ambitions.
You’ll explore current fields of research and situate your practice in relation to them, for example:
The course aims to equip you with knowledge and insights to develop your design identity. You’ll become a proactive, collaborative designer who can influence, navigate and creatively contribute to textile design futures.
You’ll be supported in locating your research and practice within strands of enquiry. These will be broadly centred on ideas that relate to culture and community, emergent technologies, and radical materials.
Learning and teaching is supported by extensive library resources at Chelsea College of Arts and across UAL, including librarians with specialist textiles, materials and textile design subject knowledge.
We look for:
MA Textile Design graduates have gone on to careers as textiles practitioners and designer-makers either working with, or establishing their own, major and independent fashion labels.
Graduates have gone on to designing prints for Ralph Lauren in New York, working on sustainable craft design projects in India as well as in-house designer for Heritage Cashmere.
Other course alumni have gone on to freelance design work, interior product design or other industry related careers, while some go on to undertake further research.
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This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University. You'll have a series of technical inductions in the textile workshops. Talks and practical workshops introduce you to a range of ‘smart textiles’ approaches and technologies. These will also cover other relevant emergent technologies and design tools. You'll look at sensors, basic coding, programming pattern or image and using AI tools in design.
Group and individual research briefs will explore socially responsible, sustainable and ethical design. Issues will relate to climate, social and racial justice. These will help you define the direction of your creative practice. They'll also help you develop a considered and ambitious MA design project proposal. You’ll begin to locate your research and textile design studio practice. You'll explore ways to articulate research and textile design practice through writing.
Positioning yourself as a designer you’ll reflect your research, professional and textile design practice interests. You'll develop your material knowledge and textile design ideas through experimentation and testing. You'll use the workshop equipment and resources, including smart textiles and emergent technologies.
You'll extend your knowledge of socially responsible and ethical approaches to design. You’ll refine your design project proposal. You'll develop your critical analysis skills and written work through your critical research paper. Support will be given to improve your communication and presentation skills.
The focus of the unit is on the production of your design project proposal. You’ll develop a portfolio and body of work. You'll extend your writing through the development of your critical research paper. Support is on hand to further improve your communication and transferable skills. You’ll position your research and design practice in professional contexts.
The unit will support you to further improve your communication and transferable skills. You'll develop your profile and professional networks in preparation for your next steps beyond the course.
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