MA in Circular by Design
The circular economy requires the redesign of everything - from materials, to products, to services, to systems. This course creates a stage for the exploration of the complex issues around fashion, textile design and product design, to interrogate and provoke sustainable systemic change. It provides the actionable methodology, tools, practice and theory for learners to design a different future for the sector.
Integrating a network of international organisations, charities and companies who are making change happen, this pathway supports embodied learning to encourage acting, as well as making and thinking.Learners connect the materials, the production, the practices and systems to opportunities for regeneration, rethinking, and reforming.
The role of the designer in the circular economy is of paramount importance, as is the integration of circular economy principles into design practice and thinking.This course supports learners to fabricate critical and vital dialogues in industry, amongst manufacturers, customers and consumers.It creates the stage for new attitudes, knowledge and skill sets which will shape the future.
The programme aims to:
- improve the exploration, curiosity, ambition, depth and breadth of participants creative practice in a systematic and insightful manner.
- continually meet the rapidly changing needs, expectations, aspirations and experiences of today's creative practitioners by improving their professional application as artists, designers, makers, curators or writers.
- demonstrate the ability to learn and perform at postgraduate level.
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the creative process.
- develop the participant’s skills in research and the translation of findings into their creative practice.
- provide participants with appropriate skills and knowledge that can be applied to their professional development as creative practitioner.
- enable participants to conceptualise and review their creative process and take incisive control over the direction of their practice.
- critically evaluate and engage with contemporary debates regarding practice-based research, practice-led research and cognate creative methodologies.
- provide participants with requisite knowledge and skills to creatively contextualise their practice and imaginatively demonstrate its wider validity.
- develop participant’s knowledge and skills to prepare them for further life-long learning.
- provide participants with appropriate creative industry and cultural connections through sponsored projects and visiting faculty.
- assist participants in developing their own practice in relation to contemporary creative practice and discourse. This may be as an artist, designer, maker, curator, educator, writer or other.
- support participants in producing a deliverable ‘capstone’ outcome of their creative practice that articulates key elements of that practice to a wider audience.
Programme Specification and Module Descriptor
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