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Sustainable Design – (M.A.)
University of Brighton
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,030 - ≈ € 14,850 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Brighton / United Kingdom | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | ||
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The Sustainable Design MA at Brighton is a solution-focused course, for a post-awareness-raising era of change, redirection and activism through design.
Sustainable design is maturing. This coming of age relocates design at the forefront of the search for solutions to economic, social and behavioural dimensions of sustainability, in addition to the already-established focus on energy and materials. The Sustainable Design MA embraces the opportunities arising through emerging practices, whilst stepping forward to pioneer new and provocative means through which sustainability may be more fully achieved.
Sustainable Design adopts a distinctive position in the sustainable design debate, both nationally (as described above) and internationally. In addition to delivering a broad and comprehensive foundation of sustainable design principles, models and theories, the programme engages directly with artists, designers and architects need for creative sustenance, meaning and authorship; acknowledging the impact such contributions make to a healthy and productive culture of sustainability. It also recognises and nurtures the value that communication, commentary and expression have to the adoption of sustainability concerns to invigorate the culture of essential critique that affords design with the properties of social, economic and environmental change.
If sustainable design is to grow and develop over the coming decades, it is essential that we foster new and sustainable cultures of creative practice, which place an emphasis on new interpretations of familiar design contexts, enabled by the visioning capabilities of the sustainable design entrepreneur - a more expansive understanding of sustainable design (the discipline), sustainable designs (the stuff) and sustainable designing (doing it) is needed, if progress is to be made; leading to new understandings of sustainability - and unsustainability - in this context, and in response, develop tools, methods, frameworks and creative propositions for sustainable change.
Contents
Course structure
The Sustainable Design MA consists of five modules spanning six projects. Throughout these modules, students:
- identify and confront issues
- explore the strengths and weaknesses of alternative philosophies and methodologies
- develop an integrated approach to research
- develop professional and communication skills
- demonstrate an ability to complete a complex design project in a coherent and appropriate manner.
Areas of study
Sustainable Design: Present(s) provides a foundation of established sustainable design principles and theories.
Research Methods provides a basis for the development of research questions, methodologies and hypothesis which underpin the development of innovation.
The Studio unit provides a reflective and productive environment to create, realise and critique new and innovative sustainable concepts, through design.
Sustainable Design: Future(s) tests and pushes the edges of the discipline outwards, enabling students to colonise new territories of expertise and understanding.
The final Master unit comprises the culmination and application of experiences, skills and insights accrued throughout the programme.
Syllabus
Sustainable Design: Present(s)
Research Methods
Studio
Sustainable Design: Future(s)
Master
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Degree and/or experience:
Candidates will have a previous degree in a design subject (for example, Product, Industrial, Furniture and 3D Design, Fashion Design and Textiles Design, Three Dimensional Craft, Graphic Design and Illustration, Interior and Spatial Design) or equivalent experience in design practice. Applicants must demonstrate a clear motivation to engage with issues of sustainability and design.
Direct access to semester 3 of the programme will be considered only where applicants have accrued appropriate number of credits at either M-Level or postgraduate study in a relevant subject. At interview students will be expected to demonstrate the following: - an ability to articulate individual perceptions and understandings of sustainable design - an ability to positively engage in critical discussion regarding their work and its broader implications in relation to sustainability - a body of work that demonstrates experience and competency within the design processes - ambition to critically appraise and develop their practice within the context of sustainability
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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