Design - 9304
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Program Summary
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
Contact: http://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
Campus: Paddington
Career: Postgraduate
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
Max UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC For Award: 72
Award(s):
Master of Design (Specialisation)
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Program Description
The program is aimed at design professionals who wish to extend their knowledge of contemporary design or who wish to revitalize or redirect their design skills into a different area of specialisation, including discipline areas, digital technologies and processes.
Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
To reflect this approach, a practice-based Integrated Studio lies at the core of the Masters program. The Integrated Studio 1 and 2 courses and Integrated Studio Project brings together practitioners whose skills, experiences and knowledge reflect the multi-faceted nature of our discipline. Working individually or within small collaborative groups, students investigate and negotiate ideas through a range of models of collaboration to create studio outcomes informed by various discipline, processes and media.
The Integrated Studio sequence is paralleled by a corresponding sequence of Design Seminars in which the concepts, which inform the studios, are explored and interrogated through lectures, discussion, debate, and reflection. Seminars covers design’s relationship with a sustainable society; the role of perception and desire in designing; and the ethical and social issues designers are faced with in designing for a global society.
Underpinning the Integrated Studio and the Design Seminar series are Design Communication and Design Research. Design Communication promotes individual and collective methods of informing one’s clients, audience, end users and colleagues. Design Research presents evidence-based approaches to informing practitioners about the choices available for exploring future design practice.
All students undertake Design Electives giving knowledge and skills in specific design disciplines of Ceramics, Environment, Furniture and Lighting, Graphics Media, Jewellery, Textiles, Design Management and Digital Design. In the third Semester, students can undertake an open elective.
Program Structure
- 8 Core Courses (54 UOC)
- 2 Design Electives (12 UOC)
- 1 Elective (6 UOC)
- SDES9201 Design Seminar 1 ( UOC)
- SDES9202 Design Seminar 2 ( UOC)
- SDES9203 Design Seminar 3 (6 UOC)
- SDES9204 Design Communication (6 UOC)
- SDES9205 Design Research (6 UOC)
- SDES9210 Des Studio: Integ Des Stud 1 (6 UOC)
- SDES9211 Des Studio: Integ Des Stud 2 (6 UOC)
- SDES9212 Design Studio Project (12 UOC)
Students may choose Design Electives from the eight strands listed below. Design Electives are an opportunity for students to increase their knowledge and skill in an area or areas relevant to their interest in contemporary design. Design Electives can be taken from any strand, eg students are not required to take all Design Electives from the one strand. Students are advised to seek advice from the Program Coordinator or the Head of School.
Students can select Design Electives so that they develop knowledge and expertise in a specific area, eg if a student is interested in design of contemporary wearables they could select SDES6711 Programming Wearable Projects, SDES6751 Jewellery: Contemporary Wearables and SDES6761 Textiles: Contemporary Wearables. These could be taken in any sequence and would meld the student’s knowledge of contemporary design with relevant new technologies for wearables across textiles, jewellery and digital design for clothing, accessories and wearable objects.
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- SDES6750 Introduction to Jewellery (6 UOC)
- SDES6751 Jewellery Wearables (6 UOC)
- SDES6752 Jewellery Objects (6 UOC)
- SDES6760 Textiles Introduction (6 UOC)
- SDES6761 Textiles: Wearables (6 UOC)
- SDES6762 Textiles: Interiors (6 UOC)
- SDES6714 Intro 3D Computer Aided Design (6 UOC)
- SDES6772 Design Practice (6 UOC)
- SDES6790 Nexus, Collaboration, Creation (6 UOC)
- SDES6791 Experimental Design (6 UOC)
- SDES9754 Porosity Studio (6 UOC)
- SDES9758 Special Project (6 UOC)
Academic Rules
Qualifications
1. A candidate for the degree shall have been awarded an appropriate degree of Bachelor from the University of New South Wales or a qualification considered equivalent from another university or tertiary institution at a level acceptable to the Standing Committee of the College of Fine Arts [hereinafter referred to as the Committee].
2. In exceptional cases an applicant who submits evidence of such other academic and professional qualifications as may be approved by the Committee may be permitted to enrol for the degree.
3. If the Committee is not satisfied with the qualifications submitted by an applicant the Committee may require the applicant to undergo such assessment or carry out such work as the Committee may prescribe, before permitting enrolment.
Enrolment and Progression
1. An application to enrol as a candidate for the degree shall be made by the advertised closing date which will be at least two calendar months before the commencement of the session in which enrolment is to begin.
2. A candidate for the degree shall be required to undertake such formal courses and pass such assessment or conditions as prescribed.
3. The progress of a candidate shall be reviewed each session by the Committee and as a result of its review the Committee may cancel enrolment or take such other action as it considers appropriate.
4. No candidate shall be awarded the degree until the lapse of three academic semesters from the date of enrolment in the case of a full-time candidate or six semesters in the case of a part-time candidate. The maximum period of candidature shall be six academic semesters from the date of enrolment for a full-time candidate and eight academic semesters for a part-time candidate.
Fees
Related Program(s)
5724 Design
7303 Design
Area(s) of Specialisation