设计硕士专注于你的个人设计实践，将拓宽你的职业生涯和研究视野。通过研究、分析、设计、制作和沉浸在材料过程中，本课程将挑战你在全球设计行业留下你的印记。本课程提供三门课程:陶瓷、家具和珠宝。它是产品、陶瓷和工业设计项目的一部分。

Normative Study Period                               

Two years (60 weeks)

Tuition Fee

£16,450 per year

On MA Design (Ceramics); MA Design (Furniture); MA Design (Jewellery), your programme of study is based on your project proposal. This will be negotiated on entry and then developed into your agreed plan of action for the course. The three units of the course support the development of this action agreement and your journey through the project.

Initially your task will be to research your project proposal. Research itself is taken to be a wide-ranging activity which includes visual, social, cultural and factual information gathering and most importantly: drawing, designing and modelling as you investigate the practical outcome of your project through design practice. You will be expected to develop strategic industry awareness, and to visit international trade events, seminars, production facilities, exhibitions and social and retail environments. This self-driven research is supported by seminars and tutorials.

Critical thinking will become the basis of your critical review. This examines your project intellectually and contextually and forms part of your Master’s submission. You will be encouraged to draw on the full range of your experience, resources and abilities. You will also be encouraged to think globally to realise your project outcome. This may include, for example, mobilising personal craft skills, devolved production across the globe and use of both traditional and new technologies.

Unit 1: introduces issues and topics relevant to ceramics, jewellery or furniture, including research methodologies and techniques. These will help you orientate your practice within the course, and to develop contextual, critical and research skills at the onset of MA learning. You will be designing out ideas from day one as you research. You will work collaboratively with students from other courses and examine some of the key cultural and theoretical ideas impacting design.

Unit 2: Design and Professional Practice

Throughout Unit 2 you are expected to develop a critical self-awareness of professional practice. You will focus on reflectivity, contextualisation and positioning practice in response to the action proposal developed in Unit 1. You are expected to actively engage with your peers, external practitioners and collaborators to produce a body of work which will map and articulate your position in your field. You will reflect on your understanding of design industry structures – in particular, contemporary practices in ceramics, furniture and jewellery. The unit incorporates personal and professional development, enterprise and contextualising activities.

Unit 3: Evaluation and Resolution

brings your project to both a practical and critically reflective conclusion. You will produce practical outcomes, evaluating the project through a critical review. During the final stages of the course there will be further personal and professional development. This is devised to support your career development.

Admission Requirements

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:

An honours degree

Or an equivalent EU/international qualification.

English Proficiency

level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking

General information

Personal details (including legal full name, date of birth, nationality, addresses)

Current English language level

Current and/or previous education and qualification details

Employment history

Personal statement

Your personal statement should give us information about yourself and why you want to join the course. (Write between 300 and 500 words)

What are you doing at the moment educationally, professionally, personally?

Why do you wish to study on MA Design (Ceramics), (Furniture) or (Jewellery)?

What makes you a suitable candidate for acceptance?

What do you think you would contribute to your peer group on the course?

Indicative project proposal

We expect a project proposal to be 500 to 800 words long in total. The sections ‘Resources’, ‘Bibliography’ and ‘Appendix’ are in addition to this word count.

Your Background

Using bullet points, state professional qualifications, skills, experiences, abilities and prior practice that are relevant to your proposal.

Outline Proposal

Describe your precise area of interest and research/study you wish to undertake demonstrating your contextual knowledge

Describe the core of your project in three to four sentences

Outline the context in which your project operates answering questions such as: Why is your project relevant? Who might be its audience(s)?

Development

Refer to specific areas, critical ideas and precedents, which underpin and frame your proposal

This section invites you to extend the description of your project focusing on specific areas. Particularly important is your evaluation of precedents and how you position your project in relationship to these.

Research

Outline the sequence of practical, of theoretical and of visual research that you intend to follow

This section requires you to be specific about how you plan to conduct your project and where particular challenges might lie.

Evaluation

Evaluate your work to date. Which conclusions are you are able to draw?

Where do you think the strengths of your work lie and where are areas you might improve?

Resources

Document resources that you have drawn on as part of your research towards your proposal including professional contacts, libraries, museums, galleries, special archives or collections

Document any professional contacts that might support the delivery of your project. These might be drawn from the list above and / or extend to your access to research or production facilities, potential collaborators etc.

Bibliography

Please give clear references of any relevant documentary material including books, images, videos, objects, artworks, online sources etc.

Appendix (optional)

This section is optional. You can insert any additional material that you consider relevant but not a core part of your project proposal

This could be other projects, notebooks, drawings, company analyses, or additional research material.

Immigration history check

Whether you are applying online or through a UAL representative you will need to complete an immigration history check to establish whether you are eligible to study at UAL. If you do not complete the check we will not be able to proceed with your application.

We cannot consider your application if you do not provide all the information above.

APPLICATION DEADLINE ：

15 May 2021

We recommend you apply as soon as possible before this date, for equal consideration. We may still be able to accept applications after this date, depending on availability.

通过教学团队的专业经验，我们与伦敦国内和国际的商业、艺术、工艺和工业团体有着紧密的联系。在MA期间，与实践者、行业专业人员和更广泛的设计社区的参与者的会议将使您学会在一系列不同的环境中有效地沟通。

未来的职业和毕业生前景

许多设计硕士:陶瓷、家具或珠宝毕业生迅速进入自我雇佣，在最高水平上发展企业，找到机会在国内和国际水平上发展自己的独立实践。这些学生在维多利亚米罗画廊和苏富比展出作品，以及施华洛世奇、MADE、Top shop和弗雷泽之家的收藏设计。

其他设计硕士:陶瓷、家具或珠宝毕业生在欧洲和国际设计团队工作，或在他们的原籍国工作，或越来越多地在他们选择的国家工作。有相当一部分人以硕士学位进入教育工作