MA Design focuses on your individual design practice and will broaden your career and research horizons. Through researching, analysing, designing, making and immersion in material processes, this course will challenge you to make your mark on the global design industry. This course offers three pathways: Ceramics, Furniture and Jewellery. It is part of the Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design programme. MA Design (Ceramics), MA Design (Furniture), MA Design (Jewellery) will develop your creative abilities, imagination and expertise. It offers three pathways: Ceramics, Furniture and Jewellery. These disciplines all have a rich tradition in material-led creativity. Framed within one course, we explore the evolving boundaries of these disciplines, embracing ideas of practice beyond traditional definitions. This allows a range of hybrid practices to emerge, disrupting assumptions around design, craft and manufacture. The course focuses on design as a process and as a practice. We look at design as modes of thinking, as ways of communicating to audiences and systems of engagement with the materiality of the world. These factors will impact the way your ceramics, furniture or jewellery design work will be realised. It will influence how you design it, talk about it, debate it and how you write about it. We are interested in all forms of manufacturing – from master craftsmanship, artisan work and the hand-made to factory production and emerging technologies. Our students are interested in single artefacts, mass-market delivery and all stages in-between.<br> <br>On MA Design (Ceramics), MA Design (Furniture), MA Design (Jewellery), you will work on your own personal project. This will be explored and developed according to your individual pathway choice. Your project will evolve through a structured process of research, exploration, development and evaluation. You will be encouraged to refocus your skills intellectually, contextually and practically. You will be expected to extend and exploit design strategies from both your own and other disciplines and to question and test your ideas through team work and group critiques. The course is taught by team of skilled practitioners. Alongside teaching experience, staff have professional careers and strong links with commercial, artistic, craft and industrial bodies. This will help you locate mentors and foster a broad range of contacts. Meetings with peers, staff, practitioners and industry professionals will also help you develop your presentation skills, so you are able to communicate and discuss your project and your ideas.