This course places the ‘designer-maker’ firmly at the centre of design production, combining a critical investigative approach with the physical practice of making. The focus is on ‘small batch’ production and the ‘one-off’ within design. You are encouraged to challenge norms and question conventions as a designermaker, through developing a personal approach to researching, experimenting, designing and making in the context of an increasingly complex commodity culture.
The course has links with the international design scene and has a good reputation for collaborative projects with Tate Modern, The Sorrel Foundation, and Erasmus exchange schemes in Norway and Germany. An extensive series of visits to cultural establishments in London is augmented by trips abroad, which in the past have taken in the Milan and Stockholm Furniture Fairs.