Courses
MA Design: Fashion and Textiles
The MA Design: Fashion and Textiles aims to develop the creative process with marketing and business skills. The course is aimed at designers, designer-makers or textile artists who are serious about working in the profession and wish to set up on their own or with others in small teams.
Teaching
You will be introduced to research skills and methods, product development, design methods and management, marketing and business skills. The emphasis of the course is learning how best to present ideas, and where and how to place them in the market.
The course is developed through seminars, lectures, tutorials, visiting speakers, group critiques, work experience and personal research in libraries and museums.
You are encouraged to trial a product in the market. This may be through first hand experience, or through working with studios and agents for designers, shops and craft markets (for designer makers), or with galleries or public spaces (for textile artists).
The first trimester (PGCert) consists of two modules with a taught programme of lectures, seminars, group critiques, assignments and research. You will negotiate a programme of study for the Product, Market Research and Product Ideas module. The emphasis at this level is on ideas. During the second trimester (PGDip) you will take two further modules: the Marketing module is a taught programme of lectures, seminars and research; the Product Development programme is negotiated by each student.
The final trimester, leading to the MA, involves a negotiated study which you will propose. The study will be research based resulting in a body of work for assessment, and part of the project will contain a practical element working with the commercial world.
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.