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Information Experience Design MA

Information Experience Design MA

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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

09-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Design (Non-Industrial) Art Communication Design Digital Media Virtual Reality Systems Design

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Information Experience Design (IED) is the creative practice of intervening in, designing and generating experiences of complex ideas and phenomena using data and experience design. The shared medium in IED is information: you’ll work with both "cold" data (quantifiable numeric data) and "warm" data (the data of interrelationship). This approach allows you to build an exciting personal practice in living systems and computational systems.

In IED, you might design a light installation in a forest, a global museum, a podcast fiction, a breathing chair, a VR adventure in a microbiome, an emotionally responsive game for dogs, or a wearable sensing deep time. IED projects go beyond the personal and embrace collective, trans-individual, and more-than-human perspectives.

Our teaching approach is unique and experimental, representing cutting-edge art and design education informed by world-class IED practitioner research. You’ll need maturity and dedication. The programme's intellectual content is cutting-edge and challenging. You’ll engage deeply with society and the environment, integrating experimentation with activism and empathy.

Modules

AcrossRCA is a compulsory 30-credit unit which is delivered as part of all MA programmes. Situated at the core of your RCA experience, this ambitious interdisciplinary College-wide unit supports you in responding to the challenges of complex, uncertain and changing physical and digital worlds. Developed in response to student feedback, AcrossRCA creates an exciting opportunity for you to collaborate meaningfully across programmes.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£15,150

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£35,950

Entry requirements

Candidates are selected entirely on merit and applications are welcomed from all over the world. The selection process will consider creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your portfolio, as well as your potential to benefit from the programme and to achieve high MA standards overall. Students come from a wide range of backgrounds. While you may come directly from first-degree programmes across art and design, you may have also joined the programme with professional experience in industry, or from a background such as science, technology and the humanities.