Design: Product+Space

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Choose Kingston's Design: Product+Space MA

This course offers a space for you to exercise your own design curiosity and motivation within the broad spectrum of product and spatial design. There are no predetermined leads to follow, simply an expectation to challenge and take risks rather than to passively accept. In this spirit, design is seen as a journey of discovery and a genuine means to provoke change. Students from a range of international design disciplines create a lively studio environment.

What will you study?

More emphasis is placed on 'how' than 'what' you will study. You take responsibility for shaping your specific study interest with support from the staff team. This evolves through a series of three-dimensional design projects encouraging the expression of creative insight and viewpoint. Designing through making is integral, and the extensive 3D workshop is fully utilised. Design workshops and a lecture series to stimulate creative freedom run in parallel, and opportunity for greater interdisciplinary collaboration and group work is provided by live industry projects.

Assessment

Practical design projects, presentations, masters project and exhibition.

Course structure

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Modules

* Designing Research
* Creative Futures
* Context I: Product+Space
* Context II: Product+Space
* Major Project

Learn a language

You will have the opportunity to study a foreign language, free of charge, during your time at the University as part of the Kingston Language Scheme. Options currently include: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish

What this course offers you
If you choose to study this course, here are some of the things you can expect from the course and how it will benefit you.

* The Design: Product Space MA focuses on the future landscape of our everyday environment. You can choose to specialise in either product or spatial design, with the spirit of innovation and enterprise sought throughout both routes.
* The masters project allows you to further develop your own interests, culminating in an exhibition.
* Field visits and the direct involvement of specialist practitioners supplement your lectures and seminars.
* Many members of staff are professional designers, which keeps your learning cutting-edge (read more in the Who teaches this course section).
* You will engage with guest luminaries and industry as well as key research staff within the University. Outside collaborators to date include Frank Duffy, Land Design Studio, Colin Davies, Daniel Hirschmann (Jason Bruges Studio) and iguzzini.
* Alongside your academic studies, you develop workplace skills in: * problem solving and organisation;
* data collation, review and synopsis;
* communication (oral, written and electronic);
* time management;
* computing; and
* co-operation and teamwork.

Here you'll find the entry requirements for this course. Please read them carefully as they are very important for your application. * A good honours degree or equivalent in a related arts or science subject and/or appropriate professional experience. * We also welcome applicants with relevant professional or vocational experience.How to apply and portfolio requirementsFor full details of how to apply and portfolio requirements, see the Apply for this course page.International studentsWe welcome applications from international students with relevant qualifications.InterviewsWe invite all qualified applicants for an interview prior to selection. We can make alternative arrangements for international students based overseas.Prior learning - AP(E)LApplicants with prior qualifications and learning may be exempt from appropriate parts of a course in accordance with the University's policy for the assessment of prior learning and prior experiential learning. Contact the faculty office for further information.English language requirementsAll non-UK applicants must meet our English language requirements. For this course it is Academic IELTS of 6.5 overall, with special conditions in all elements. Please make sure you read our full guidance about English language requirements, which includes details of other qualifications we'll consider.Applicants who do not meet the English language requirements may be eligible to join our pre-sessional English language course.Applicants from one of the recognised Majority English Speaking Countries (MESCs) do not need to meet these requirements. English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6.5 IMPORTANT NOTE: Since April 2014 the ETS tests (including TOEFL and TOEIC) are no longer accepted for Tier 4 visa applications to the United Kingdom. The university might still accept these tests to admit you to the university, but if you require a Tier 4 visa to enter the UK and begin your degree programme, these tests will not be sufficient to obtain your Visa. The IELTS test is most widely accepted by universities and is also accepted for Tier 4 visas to the UK- learn more.