MA Design (Fashion)
MA Design (Fashion) is an opportunity to reimagine the status quo of fashion and to use a research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies to propose new strategies for the industry.
Designed to foster both design entrepreneurs and creative practitioners, the course encourages you to build upon your existing knowledge or fashion experience to develop a fashion project realised through new material applications, circular production protocols and systems-thinking in a research-based, studio-centred enquiry.
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Award: MA Design (Fashion)<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Approach: research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Project focus: new material applications, circular production protocols and systems-thinking<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Professional dimension: external briefs supporting an iterative evolution from concept to prototype to product or service<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Facilities access: Materials Lab, Biomaterials Lab, Sew Lab, CAD Lab and Fab Lab South West</p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr">This course will give you the opportunity to dive deep into current practices and theories in Fashion Design that are transforming the nature of this rapidly changing sector through a direct, critical interrogation of its standards and hands-on research. Designed to foster both design entrepreneurs and creative practitioners, our MA Design (Fashion) encourages you to build upon your existing knowledge or fashion experience to develop a fashion project realised through new material applications, circular production protocols and systems thinking in a research-based, studio centred enquiry.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You’ll build upon your existing knowledge or fashion experience to develop a fashion project realised through:</p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">New material applications<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Circular production protocols<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Systems-thinking in a research-based, studio-centred enquiry<br /><br /></p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr">Your fashion research and creative development will happen together, using your existing practice or industry experience as the foundation for guided experiments to deconstruct and reimagine the assumptions embedded within both design education and fashion cultures.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You will benefit from embarking on this study journey within a truly interdisciplinary academic context, enriched by ongoing input from industry specialists and institutional partners who will help ground your experiments with real-world challenges and opportunities.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Through external briefs, your ideas and proposals will take on professional dimensions and provide you with a period of focused making through a full iterative evolution:</p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Concept<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Prototype<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Product or service<br /><br /></p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr">This process supports both your creative agency and the industry networks required to succeed in the field.<br /></p>
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Build on your existing knowledge or industry experience to develop a project that interrogates, challenges and focuses on solutions through systems-thinking.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Work within a multidisciplinary postgraduate community of makers and designers committed to leading necessary changes to current production models, providing opportunities for purposeful innovation and experimentation.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Access state-of-the-art facilities and resources to develop your work, including our Materials Lab, Biomaterials Lab, Sew Lab, CAD Lab, and Fab Lab South West.</p></li></ul>
<p>Career opportunities include: Fashion Designers, Fashion Retailers, Fashion Educators, Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Buyers, Materials Researchers and Wearables Designers.</p>
<p>It is an opportunity to reimagine the status quo of fashion through a research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies to propose new strategies for the industry.</p>
<p>It is designed to foster both design entrepreneurs and creative practitioners, building on your existing knowledge or fashion experience.</p>
<p>Your project will be realised through new material applications, circular production protocols and systems-thinking in a research-based, studio-centred enquiry.</p>
<p>Your fashion research and creative development will happen together, using your existing practice or industry experience as the foundation for guided experiments.</p>
<p>You’ll undertake a direct, critical interrogation of fashion’s standards and hands-on research, deconstructing and reimagining assumptions embedded within both design education and fashion cultures.</p>
<p>Through external briefs, your ideas and proposals take on professional dimensions and progress through an iterative evolution from concept to prototype to product or service.</p>
<p>You’ll have access to state-of-the-art facilities including the Materials Lab, Biomaterials Lab, Sew Lab, CAD Lab and Fab Lab South West.</p>
<p>Career opportunities include Fashion Designers, Fashion Retailers, Fashion Educators, Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Buyers, Materials Researchers and Wearables Designers.</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>
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