Interactive Product Futures MA / MSc
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The course is defined by its distinctive experimental approach to the development of user-centred projects .
Futures Our graduates leave equipped with skills to realise relevant and elegant design proposals with a solid commercial potential .
The Course Interactive Product Futures is a creative , project-based course . It supports advanced product designers who wish to develop and refine their practice in interaction and user-centred product design . The course recognises that different electronic and computing technologies increasingly permeate our lives , but also recognises the need for products to be more empathetic to people and their behaviour . Examples of potential development opportunities include website development , mobile phone application or utility , a computer game or a game level , media elements , interactive TV application .
The course encourages you to experiment with new ways of working with objects and their integration with technologies , both creatively and collaboratively . It also asks you to apply emerging and existing technology in new ways through personal fabrication , research and the experimental application . We invite you to look at academic theoretical frameworks , research methodologies and their application within industry practice .
Unit 1 : Technology Issues In the Technology Issues unit you will have the opportunity to prototype ideas and engage with industry standard processes , techniques and technology relevant to product .
Unit 2 : Research Process The Research Process unit will enable you to deepen your conceptual thinking and technical application through the development of your individual practice .
Unit 3 : Business and Innovation The business context of new technologies has transformed the relationships between traditional film , video and digital formats .
Unit 4 : Concept and Prototyping The Concept and Prototyping unit will develop your main concepts with reference to theoretical and business contexts .
Unit 5 : Major Project The Major Project unit represents the culmination of a student ’ s investigation and the final stage of the research strategy . This is a substantial piece of self-managed work that is underpinned by advanced practicebased methodologies and processes .
Duration 1 year full time / 2 years part time
Entry requirements see page 160 How to apply see page 162
Term starts September 2017