The specialisms enable you to contribute to the shaping of contemporary crafts by promoting innovative, experimental and creative approaches to the production of professional artefacts.
The distinctiveness of the course recognises that practice-based research is based on heightened critical awareness and tacit learning (making) enabling you to creatively exploit the potential of specialist process production within the crafts. The course facilitates an advanced level of technical and skill based understanding of making, developed through problem solving and the creative ambiguities necessary within product development.
Practice at this level identifies a specific contemporary and historical context within which craft artefacts exist. At Masters level you will be able to articulate and analyse your practice in a rigorous, critical and reflective way.
Chosen research topics will normally focus on issues arising from material and process based enquiry from both historical and contemporary studio practices.
Research may also be based within particular professional or industrial contexts (the research might include placement within a commercial or manufacturing environment).
The implication of new technologies is also a possible research path, developing artefacts within, for example, the debate surrounding the 'real' and the 'virtual' or the utilisation of industrial construction techniques.
You will be challenged to research and site your practice in relation to the consumption of artefacts produced. This will argue the role of the 'handmade' within post-modern society. Through a close examination and reflective understanding of your practice, you will be able to locate work within the gallery context, site-specific venues, batch-production methodologies and crafts consultancy, etc.
Refer to UCA website: www.ucreative.ac.uk For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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