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BA (HONS) THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN:
IDEA MATERIAL OBJECT
We are interested in inventive, inquisitive people with a passion for making and with ambition to delight, amuse and intrigue.
If you are fascinated by the objects around you, and wish to develop your own ideas, the course will give you the chance to do so. You will work through research, practical hands-on experience, and investigation with a range of materials and techniques. We have facilities to build, mould, machine form and digitally create shapes, equipment to take drawn decorative designs onto surfaces and processes to cut them into hard materials or to print.
The programme will engage with creative and industry partners to offer ‘Live’ projects and open up opportunities to experience a professional working atmosphere in a safe environment. In 2012 the best student work will be exhibited at Design Shows in London and possibly beyond to international destinations.
We expect our graduates to shape their individual career paths as they enter the ever changing future of interdisciplinary design, with graduates becoming designer-makers, artists, in-house designers, gallery owners, curators, entrepreneurs equipped to create many more new possibilities.
Year 1 will develop your creative instincts and explore the qualities of different materials and making processes including methods of digital manufacture. Ideas and concepts will be developed to equip you with an understanding of design and manufacture through drawing, experimentation with materials and exploration of computer based processes.
Year 2 will introduce collaborative working practise and live projects with external partners or design businesses and may undertake work experience and placements. You will also be introduced to marketing and promotional skills, including building narratives in your work and exploring outcomes through photographic sessions, publishing, exhibiting and web presence.
Year 3 will define your own area of practice, audience and market. You will be produce a combination of visual and written work as well as physical artefacts. and be encouraged to publish your work at a professional level. We expect your final project work to be displayed at national and international design show venues.
Throughout all levels you will undertake Contextual Studies to examine the critical and theoretical frameworks which underpin and inform your practice.
The course will be augmented by trips to cultural establishments both nationally and internationally. Exchange schemes are planned with institutes around the world.
For an insight into our thinking please visit our course site; imo.artbathspa.com or download the brochure.
For further information about this course, please visit the prospectus pages for this course within the main Bath Spa University website. To return press the back button.