MDes Design

University of Plymouth

This programme aligns with contemporary trends stressing the role of designers for global prosperity, driving innovation and speculating with new, sustainable and material futures. The MDes allows you to engage with students from cognate areas such as MA Experience Design, and emerging technological innovation spaces influencing and impacting design practice, such as Creative Media, Architecture or Games Design. Key features: • Personalise your masters. Choose an exit award to reflect your interest in a specific area of expertise. • Explore modern specalisations. You will develop design projects aligned with contemporary and emerging specialisations in the design sector such as interiors, products and new materials. • Choose your format. You can choose the final format of your research project, options include standard text-based dissertations, a design business proposal or a body of exhibited creative work. • Live projects. Gain valuable experience working on live projects with partners across Plymouth and abroad, respondng to real contexts and ethical issues. • Collaborate. Engage with students from areas such as experience design, architecture, creative media and games design. • Learn by doing. Through a process of learning-by-doing, students develop the skills required to produce creative outputs and research-oriented studies, gain an understanding of the application of technical knowledge to creative situations, and explore how theory and action inform each other.

School of Art, Design and Architecture