MA Design (Built Environment)
MA Design (Built Environment) prepares you to develop a unique practice using methods of co-design and practice-led research to transform the spaces people inhabit for increased wellbeing, social agency and sense of place.
You will learn how to approach space as a dynamic infrastructure.
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Award: MA Design (Built Environment)<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Learning emphasis: project-based, place-based, and open-knowledge approaches to design<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Practice focus: co-design and practice-led research<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Professional focus: well-being, circular production and regenerative design</p></li></ul>
Develop a project within a learning environment that emphasises project-based, place-based, and open-knowledge approaches to design.
Trinitatum by Paul Hillon, BA (Hons) Fine Art and MA Fine Art graduate, and now a Technical Tutor on our Fine Art courses.
<p>Study as part of a multidisciplinary community of practitioners who have expertise in interior design, CAD modelling, 3D photogrammetry, spatial acoustics, material innovations, and immersive media environments.</p>
During his Erasmus exchange at Arts University Plymouth as a student on MA Design (Built Environment), Eslam ElShamy developed a project that used workshops, archival research and immersive media to explore how lost heritage might be experienced collectively.
<p>Discover ways of working professionally, with a focus on well-being, circular production and regenerative design, to lead social and cultural change.</p>
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Develop a project within a learning environment that emphasises project-based, place-based, and open-knowledge approaches to design.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Study as part of a multidisciplinary community of practitioners with expertise in interior design, CAD modelling, 3D photogrammetry, spatial acoustics, material innovations, and immersive media environments.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Discover ways of working professionally, with a focus on well-being, circular production and regenerative design, to lead social and cultural change.</p></li></ul>
<p>Career opportunities include: Interior Designers, Experience Designers, Production Designers, Materials Specialists, Creative Directors, Design Entrepreneurs, Product Managers and Design Production Managers.</p>
<p>It prepares you to develop a unique practice using co-design and practice-led research to transform the spaces people inhabit for increased wellbeing, social agency and sense of place.</p>
<p>You will learn how to approach space as a dynamic infrastructure.</p>
<p>The course emphasises project-based, place-based, and open-knowledge approaches to design.</p>
<p>You’ll study as part of a multidisciplinary community of practitioners with expertise in interior design, CAD modelling, 3D photogrammetry, spatial acoustics, material innovations, and immersive media environments.</p>
<p>It focuses on professional ways of working with an emphasis on well-being, circular production and regenerative design, to lead social and cultural change.</p>
<p>Career opportunities include Interior Designers, Experience Designers, Production Designers, Materials Specialists, Creative Directors, Design Entrepreneurs, Product Managers and Design Production Managers.</p>
<p>Arts University Plymouth graduates are offered a <strong>discount of 15% on Masters programme fees</strong>, regardless of when they studied with us previously. The discount applies if you studied on one of our pre-degree, foundation or undergraduate programmes.</p>
<p>MA applicants are normally expected to have an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, the strength of your creative practice and other forms of experience will be taken into account at the interview stage and we encourage you to start a conversation with us.</p>
<p>Your portfolio should give us an indication of the work that you have made, organised or been involved in. For our postgraduate arts, craft and design courses, we expect to see examples of work you have created. <br /></p>
<p>The best deadline to submit your MA application by is <strong>1 July</strong>, however please be reassured that we can take late applications until the start of the course if places are still available.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Email: </strong><a href="mailto:admissions@aup.ac.uk">admissions@aup.ac.uk</a></li><li><strong>Tel:</strong> +44 (0)1752 203434</li></ul>
<p>If you'd like to speak about Postgraduate study, you can <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/appointments/AcZssZ04mw0_Je9BjyEo_V5CwiIJJ3fT4ImT30b-BbY=?gv=true" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">book an informal online chat</a> with a member of our academic team:<br /></p><ul><li>Associate Professor <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/people/stephanie-owens" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephanie Owens</a>, our Dean of Arts, Design and Media</li><li><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/people/rebecca-dodman" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Becky Dodman Wainwright</a>, Co-Course Leader for Postgraduate Studies</li><li><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/people/jason-hirons" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jason Hirons</a>, Co-Course Leader for Postgraduate Studies</li></ul>
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