The only Postgraduate Design course in the UK to offer specialist options

MA Design
Master of Arts: Design

This MA is a leading edge programme detailed for the demands of the today's creative industries. MA Design offers IDEO's world-class design-innovation programme that is focused, comprehensive and relevant to industry. Students undertake a series of assignments to develop an area of interest or particular direction they wish their careers to follow. We welcome proposals from students with good university degrees and others with professional experience.

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MRes Design Thinking
Master of Research: Design Thinking

This course is unique to Plymouth University and is designed with the contemporary issues at its core. MA by Research (Design Thinking) will allow students to reflect upon, and gain a deeper understanding of design theory and practice. Students will be encouraged to test out ideas and be aware of the implications of design in a wider historical and contemporary perspective. We welcome proposals from those with a design/design history background and those linked to business.

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MA Contemporary Designer Maker
Master of Arts: Contemporary Designer Maker

The South West offers huge potential for Designer Makers and this MA seeks to capitalise and utilise these strengths. This exciting new MA provides an opportunity for individuals to develop design ideas through an intimate knowledge of materials and making processes. Through experimentation, research and innovation, process and content are considered as interdependent and mutually enriching within a global context. We welcomed proposals from students with good university degrees or equivalent professional experience.

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New for 2009: MA Service Design
Master of Arts: Service Design

Service Design practice defines and builds customer experiences that reach people through many different touch-points, and that happen over time. It can be both tangible and intangible, and can involve artefacts and other things including communication, environment and behaviours.

Email: R.Fraquelli@plymouth.ac.uk

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New for 2009: MA Sustainable Futures
Email: pete.davis@plymouth.ac.uk

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New for 2009: MA Spatial Practice
Email: mathew.emmett@plymouth.ac.uk

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