The MA in Design Futures helps improve your understanding of design, art, craft or design-related practice. It offers you a ‘thinking space’ that helps you to deepen your understanding of the way things happen in the world. You might use this to improve your chances of professional survival by helping to prepare you for social, technological, and other changes. You may also like to frame important ethical questions that would be difficult to address from within industry.
The programme respects your beliefs, ideologies, and ambitions, whilst also challenging your assumptions, criteria, and approaches. In encouraging you to question yourself, the industry, and the world, it empowers you by helping translate your vision into an effective strategy for action.
What you study
You attend four interconnected and overlapping seminar courses exploring contemporary and emerging design issues; we encourage you to reflect on your independent, design- related practices within terms introduced via the seminar topics.
The courses cover widely differing perspectives derived from, for example, philosophy, anthropology, management and psychology. These tend to overlap as they begin to highlight common practices and to encourage speculation about the future of design itself. Compulsory courses cover: knowledge and communication; society and the individual; technology, culture and change; ethical practices and the environment.
Careers
Over the last decade, Design Futures students from over 30 countries have used the programme to redefine their career path, to establish new approaches in design, to test out innovative concepts, or simply to rethink their own beliefs and assumptions. Many have achieved outstanding success in their fields.
For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals. Normally an undergraduate degree in a design-related subject, and some experience in an area of professional practice. If your degree is in an unrelated field, you may need to take a qualifying examination. If your first language is not English, you should normally have a minimum score of 7.0 in IELTS (International English Language Testing System) or equivalent.
A Progression Agreement is a formal arrangement between two or more
education providers. It spells out what a learner needs to do to be
considered for a place on a named programme of study. Progression Agreements
may vary in the conditions they specify but they all aim to give guaranteed
pathways into higher education.
Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk