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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

11-SEP-23

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Design (Non-Industrial)

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

This exciting new programme is intended to foster a new breed of designer for the 21st century. As the world undergoes massive, accelerated change, communities, cultures and societies are confronted by a variety of complex circumstances and systems, including disruptive technologies, ageing populations, economic instability, conflict and displacement, and environmental degradation.

What will I study?

This programme will address the complex, real world challenges these communities face through design-led interventions driven by tactical, critical, strategic and creative approaches. It places an expanded notion of design practice at the heart of the enterprise of social, technical and environmental change and nurtures an interdisciplinary approach to these complex circumstances.

Our approach starts with understanding designers as researchers, who weave the interstices of traditional design practice with new methodogical approaches, fostered by a sense of curiosity regarding uncertainty and instability. This new breed are seeking to understand the diversity of sociocultural perspectives and practices employed by the fragile networks embedded within these significant global challenges.

Modules

This Design Lab (dLab) interrogates the complex challenges and issues contemporary societies face that are technical in nature. Drawing directly from issue-based themes from the RCUK Global Challenges Areas and the UN's Global Goals, each year a particular area is identified for critical examination through design-led interventions, leading to propositions and prototyping of alternative futures interrogating the impact that the relentless pace of technological change and development, in various forms, has on the lives of individuals and their communities of practice.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£14,100

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£28,200

Entry requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent.

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