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Arts University Plymouth: Design (Fashion)
| Institution | Arts University Plymouth View institution profile |
|---|---|
| Department | Arts, Design and Media |
| Web | https://www.aup.ac.uk/ |
| Study type | Taught |
MA
Summary
MA Design (Fashion) is an opportunity to reimagine the status quo of fashion through research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies, developing new strategies for the industry. Build a fashion project through systems-thinking, circular production protocols and new material applications, from concept to prototype to product or service.
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.
At a glance
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Award: MA Design (Fashion)
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Approach: research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies
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Project focus: new material applications, circular production protocols and systems-thinking
-
Professional dimension: external briefs supporting an iterative evolution from concept to prototype to product or service
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Facilities access: Materials Lab, Biomaterials Lab, Sew Lab, CAD Lab and Fab Lab South West
Research-led practice to propose new strategies
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.
Your project, materials and systems-thinking
You’ll build upon your existing knowledge or fashion experience to develop a fashion project realised through:
-
New material applications
-
Circular production protocols
-
Systems-thinking in a research-based, studio-centred enquiry
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.
Interdisciplinary study with industry input
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.
From concept to prototype to product or service
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:
-
Concept
-
Prototype
-
Product or service
This process supports both your creative agency and the industry networks required to succeed in the field.
Why choose this course?
-
Build on your existing knowledge or industry experience to develop a project that interrogates, challenges and focuses on solutions through systems-thinking.
-
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.
-
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.
Careers and future opportunities
Career opportunities include: Fashion Designers, Fashion Retailers, Fashion Educators, Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Buyers, Materials Researchers and Wearables Designers.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Channel Islands;England;Northern Ireland;Wales;Scotland;Republic of Ireland | 10050 GBP for Per year |
|---|---|
| EU;International | 17500 GBP for Per year |
Summary
MA Design (Fashion) is an opportunity to reimagine the status quo of fashion through research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies, developing new strategies for the industry. Build a fashion project through systems-thinking, circular production protocols and new material applications, from concept to prototype to product or service.
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.
At a glance
-
Award: MA Design (Fashion)
-
Approach: research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies
-
Project focus: new material applications, circular production protocols and systems-thinking
-
Professional dimension: external briefs supporting an iterative evolution from concept to prototype to product or service
-
Facilities access: Materials Lab, Biomaterials Lab, Sew Lab, CAD Lab and Fab Lab South West
Research-led practice to propose new strategies
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.
Your project, materials and systems-thinking
You’ll build upon your existing knowledge or fashion experience to develop a fashion project realised through:
-
New material applications
-
Circular production protocols
-
Systems-thinking in a research-based, studio-centred enquiry
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.
Interdisciplinary study with industry input
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.
From concept to prototype to product or service
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:
-
Concept
-
Prototype
-
Product or service
This process supports both your creative agency and the industry networks required to succeed in the field.
Why choose this course?
-
Build on your existing knowledge or industry experience to develop a project that interrogates, challenges and focuses on solutions through systems-thinking.
-
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.
-
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.
Careers and future opportunities
Career opportunities include: Fashion Designers, Fashion Retailers, Fashion Educators, Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Buyers, Materials Researchers and Wearables Designers.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Channel Islands;England;Northern Ireland;Wales;Scotland;Republic of Ireland | 10050 GBP for Per year |
|---|---|
| EU;International | 17500 GBP for Per year |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Design (Fashion) at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Design (Fashion) places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | 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. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| Channel Islands | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| EU | 17500 GBP for Whole course |
| England | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 17500 GBP for Whole course |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Design (Fashion) at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Design (Fashion) places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | 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. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| EU | 9275 GBP for Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| England | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 9275 GBP for Year 1 |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Design (Fashion) at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Design (Fashion) places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | 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. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| Channel Islands | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| EU | 17250 GBP for Whole course |
| England | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 17250 GBP for Whole course |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Design (Fashion) at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Design (Fashion) places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | 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. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| EU | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| England | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
A Little Bit About Arts University Plymouth
As an MA student at Arts University Plymouth you will join our Postgraduate Centre, an active, cross-disciplinary community of makers and thinkers.
Founded in 1856, the institution has been granted full university status and is formally recognised as Arts University Plymouth following approval by the Privy Council, becoming the city of Plymouth’s specialist arts university. Arts University Plymouth is a specialist arts university offering a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in art and design, and media.
Students benefit from industry standard workshops and studios and state-of-the-art equipment …
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