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Study Details: MA 15 months full-time
The course has a distinctive identity as it takes a contemporary view of experimental spatial practice and thrives on blurring disciplinary boundaries. It also benefits from a unique position of being a design course in an art school environment.
With a focus on research-led practice, you’ll be encouraged along a path of personal discovery. This starts with an area of individual research interest.
We have a particular expertise in experiential and sensorial aspects of what it means to inhabit space and interact with our environment.
We work with existing structures both internally and externally, with film and video, and between digital and analogue. We consider both physical and virtual space as equally valid forms of experience.
We treat making, drawing, text and debate as equal and complimentary forms of expression and representation.
The course encourages and facilitates cross-disciplinary activity. We provide opportunities for working on live projects and working on collaborations with practitioners in various fields.
There is scope within the course structure to negotiate what your portfolio submission can be at the end of each unit. In this regard, you might develop your writing, film making or other forms of practice as well as the more usual installation or design propositions.
What to expect:
The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:
Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your portfolio of work and personal statement.
APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Each application will be considered on its own merit, but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
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Graduates from MA Interior and Spatial Design have an excellent record of gaining employment in both architectural and design practices, while our other course alumni either continue their practice as fine artists, have architectural books published or make furniture.
Unit 1: Discover and define
This unit offers an introduction to your course, the College and the University. First, you’ll present your current portfolio of work, sharing and exchanging ideas and techniques with your peers.
You’ll then participate in a series of short exercises to help you fully define your research interests. To contextualise and test your research ideas, you’ll be encouraged to explore physical spaces and undertake direct observational and spatial investigation. This will provide a basis for your research-led proposal. We also aim to run several optional live projects with partners.
Unit 2: Define and develop
Unit 2 will help you position your creative practice within broader social and professional contexts. Through experimentation, you will start to focus and refine your research-led proposal. To help you learn new techniques and expand your creative practice, you’ll also participate in a collaborative activity with other MA design students.
By the end of this unit, you will have produced studio practice-based developmental work to add to your portfolio along with an extended written paper covering all the work you’ve completed during unit 1 and 2.
Unit 3: Develop and deliver
This final unit of the course is about taking the final steps toward resolving and presenting your research and proposal developments through your ongoing practice. The aim is to fully communicate the body of work you have undertaken in a format that is appropriate to the nature of your project.
You’ll be expected to demonstrate how your practice has developed and evolved throughout the course and highlight how it relates to key contextual and theoretical perspectives.
The unit concludes with the submission of your portfolio and written research work. Past projects have included online or physical exhibitions with drawings, models, installations, video work and performance.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.
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