Master of Arts - Visual Communication Design

This course in Visual Communication Design encourages students to critically position themselves in relation to human-centred and post-human-centred approaches to design research and practice. Students will explore both speculative and solutionist approaches to design, working collaboratively and in an interdisciplinary context.

Alongside their own research projects, students will have opportunities to take part in shorter design challenges that approach ways to shape sustainable and collective futures.

The Visual Communication Design programme promotes material-oriented approaches to design. Students will develop tools, methods and processes that enable new ways of envisioning, inhabiting, communicating, and disrupting complex issues, places, and futures.

Students will be supported to focus in on a particular context, understand the correct methodological approach and apply the necessary tools to explore the complexities within their area of research.

Students will develop their awareness of how and where their project and approaches might be applied, looking beyond existing euro-centric models.

Students will take part in a range of workshops, lectures, testbeds, short projects, and exhibitions, and challenge the distinctions between theory and practice. As well as taking traditional approaches to research dissemination, students will explore varied types of academic knowledge production, such as experimental, open-source and multi-modal research publication practices.