This Masters degree is aimed at graduates who want to use creative practice to design, investigate and interpret urban places.
Students will produce design responses to a given place. Sites are selected for their characteristics which raise profound practical and theoretical issues, which in turn provoke a wide range of creative responses. The focus is always on narratives of a given place and a design based response to it.
Design Studio
The module starts with all students working together on short, local projects so as to share ideas of place and to introduce each other to alternative ways of reading place. The focus will be on exploring the wide range of source material (literature, art, film, maps, people etc…) and interpretations of it through various media culminating in appropriate design responses to the place being investigated.
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The output is a major project that includes designing an exhibition and / or presentation of the work. The creative practice can cover a range of rigorous spatially based interpretations but must be informed by design as a process in its resolution. It is not necessary to have studied design previously but a desire to work in studio developing ideas in a iterative manner, testing and reworking them is essential.
