Postgraduate
MA/MSc Interactive Product Futures
Duration
1 year full-time. Part-time also available.
Entry Requirements
Successful completion of a degree in a related discipline at upper second class honours or above, or an equivalent recognised international qualification in a related discipline. Applications from candidates without standard qualifications may be considered on the basis of prior experiential learning. Applicants submit a completed application form and personal statement. An interview and portfolio are normally required. Overseas applicants who are unable to attend interview may be interviewed by telephone or using skype.
How To Apply
Via UKPASS, or direct application to the college. Telephone +44 (0)20 3040 3500 or e-mail: admissions@rave.ac.uk for details.
Term Starts
September 2011.
This creative, project-based course focuses on the practical and theoretical study of Product Design and its relationship to Interaction Design. It encourages individuals to experiment with objects/scenarios and their integration with technologies. You will apply emerging and existing technology in new ways through personal fabrication, research and experimentation.
Interactive Product Futures at Ravensbourne focuses on user-centred design processes and on technology-mediated communication between humans and objects or spaces. You will learn to apply design and technology to people’s lives and needs. The course will also examine the relevance of product behaviours within product design and how objects convey personalities through the use of technology.
The course recognises that different electronic and computing technologies increasingly permeate our lives, therefore examining the growing need for products to be more empathetic to people and behaviours. We are keen to explore design interactions of a different nature – between people and possible futures, and between design and other fields of art and science.
The course strives to create designers with the potential to innovate and influence product and interaction design practice, and those who can realise relevant and elegant design proposals with research and commercial potential.
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