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Design: Product and Space & the Creative Economy – (M.A.)
Kingston University
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 8,490 - ≈ € 13,650 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
The Cox Review of Creativity in Business (2005), commissioned by the UK government, cites design as "what links creativity and innovation, it shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers".
If you are currently employed in or would like to develop a career in product design, the Product Design and the Creative Economy MA course is ideal. It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industry effectively within the creative economy.
By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the leading-edge knowledge and practical skills needed to succeed in this area of the creative economy.
Whatever your current job within the creative industries, no matter how much experience you have or what size of organisation you work for, Kingston´s Creative Industries programme is designed to suit you. We will provide you with the creative, leadership, entrepreneurship and management skills to succeed within the creative industries.
Contents
In Part 1 of your course, you will study with students from across all the Creative Industries programmes. In Part 2 of your course, you will study alongside fellow students who have opted to work towards the same specialist discipline.
Part 1: core modules
* Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship in Practice
* Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship in Practice
This corner-stone module provides you with 'hands on' experience of life in the creative economy through working together to create, design and manage a viable creative enterprise project.
This creative project will form the context for subsequent learning throughout the course.
* Managing Creativity and Innovation
* Managing Creativity and Innovation
This module aims to develop your entrepreneurial management behaviours, encouraging an approach to learning that copes with and enjoys uncertainty, risks and complexity.
The core curriculum of this module will underpin the knowledge and skills required for The Creative Economy module.
* Leadership in the Creative Economy
* Leadership in the Creative Economy
This module encourages you to learn experientially about leadership through performance and develop conceptual understanding of creative leadership and how it differs from more traditional approaches.
Where appropriate, you will apply your learning to leadership roles in the creative project developed within The Creative Economy module.
* Contemporary Issues in the Creative Economy
* Contemporary Issues in the Creative Economy
This module offers a range of optional learning experiences to complement the three core modules above. These include areas such as:
* * consultancy practice;
* cross-cultural management communication;
* creativity and consumption; and
* critical appraisal of the creative economy.
Specific learning outcomes for each student will be agreed with the course director, and may involve taught sessions, work-based learning, or a mixture of both.
Part 2: specialist modules
* Process
* Process
This module aims to orientate you within the Faculty, School and course context. It exploits interdisciplinary study opportunities and establishes the masters-level expectation.
It will enable you to:
* * research, explore, challenge and debate processes of creative endeavour within the field;
* develop and expand a sophisticated visual communication vocabulary;
* learn about design systems and creative and expedient technologies; and
* learn about the application to spatial design of processes of: * preconceived conceptualisation;
* intuitive trial and error / experimentation; and
* post-rationalisation and critical reflection.
* Focus
* Focus
This module aims to:
* * identify and critically evaluate themes universal to diverse design contexts;
* access industrial, professional and academic research operations; and
* give you an insight into the nature of focused lines of enquiry within universal design context themes.
It will enable you to develop focus and specificity. You will also undertake an analytical and creative focus design study within a universal design context theme. You will learn to:
* * critically evaluate a range of philosophical positions and see how they inform universal design themes; and
* initiate and realise a complex, innovative and focused practical design investigation within a universal design theme.
We will encourage you to establish constructive contacts with product designers at the forefront of their practice.
Part 3: personal project (choose one)
* Dissertation
* Dissertation
Your dissertation will focus on your specialist interest in advertising and will be relevant to your own career needs and aspirations.
Under the supervision of Kingston's qualified staff, it will be designed to connect you directly with current practice and will enhance your employability.
* Innovative Project
Assessment
A mixture of project work and formal assessments, including essays, case studies, reports and presentations, plus the final dissertation or business report (approx 15,000 words).
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
We usually expect applicants to have:
- a second class degree or above in a relevant area and/or two years´ work experience in the creative industries;
- an understanding of the context of the creative economy; and
the ability to rationalise why this course will be of value to them personally.
- International students must have an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent1.
We also carefully consider non-standard entrants with relevant personal and work experience who can demonstrate the interest, commitment and ability required to undertake this course successfully.
Personal statement
All applicants should demonstrate their understanding of the context of the creative economy in their personal statement, plus how the course will be of value to them personally.
Portfolio
If you have previous qualifications and experience of studio practice, you may be able to undertake studio (eg visual practice-led) assignments if appropriate. The subject team will assess your suitability for this route, based on the submission of a portfolio of visual practice images with your application, as well as subsequent progress on the course.
If you do not have prior qualifications and experience of a practice-based nature in your specialist area, you will undertake an alternative form of assignment in your course (and you will not be required to submit a portfolio with your application).
If you need to submit a portfolio, please do so digitally on a CD-ROM that can be opened on a Microsoft XP operating system using Powerpoint. Images only need to be screen resolution (between 72dpi and 150dpi). Make sure that the CD-ROM is clearly labelled with your name and the course for which you have applied. Unfortunately, we are unable to return CD-ROMs.
Interviews
We normally invite applicants for this course to an interview with the course director and/or the subject leader. International students based overseas can arrange for an interview by email or telephone.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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