You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in a relevant/related subject. If you don't have a related undergraduate degree we also welcome those who have significant practical experience in a design-related field: you will be judged on the relevance of your previous work experience, and on your art and/or design work. We will also consider applicants who do not have a design-related background but who have engaged in research either in academia (as students or academics) or at work. We expect a high standard of achievement in design or other creative practice, and competencies in the use of equipment used to produce design work (IT and/or manufacture workshop skills). You need to present, in portfolio and at interview, evidence of evolved critical and creative thinking in design.
This is a radical post-disciplinary programme for practitioners who want to push the boundaries of what design can be and do. In MA Design we work with you to transform your practice as a critical and social undertaking. You will choose to situate yourself within one of the following studios: Cities & Urbanism Communication & Experience Fashions & Embodiment Innovation & Service Interaction & Technology Participation & Politics You will spend about a day a week in your studio of choice, where you will be exploring discourses through talks and seminars, engaging with methods and processes appropriate to the studio's focus. This will give you a body of knowledge that will equip you to act in design in your area of interest. The studio projects will take the rest of the week for the first term of your masters with a wide range of design staff from the department and guest speakers. This initial project will be a shared project brief across the whole masters programme, to build your practice working alongside and in collaboration with wide range of design students. In the second and third term you will be selecting a project from a choice of three projects each term along with the other MA Design students. Each of these projects will be made up of students from all of the studios. The aim is to bring your interests to the particular project to shape it for the development of your own practice. In the Summer there are options to do a externally focused projects, like our annual summer school in Paris (Design and Performance 2017), or a placement with an external organisation. You return to Goldsmiths for a final fifth term to pull together your body of work and concluding design outcomes for public engagement through exhibitions and symposiums. Designers and non-designers are accepted on the MA Design programme. Whatever your background or previous degree we expect you to examine your own practice.
This course encourages the exploration and understanding of the methods and processes at work in contemporary visual communication. It will further develop your personal practice and approach to the making of images. The course also provides a focus on individual research and inquiry and helps you to understand the significance of the wider cultural role of the visual designer and illustrator. In addition, it will introduce disciplinary and interdisciplinary models of thinking that will underpin your own focused study on the course.
