Course summary

This new multidisciplinary programme allows you to explore the communicative potential of a range of media channels to propose rich and immersive experiences that respond to complex social and commercial needs. By challenging norms and pushing critical, creative, and strategic processes we seek to equip you with the skills to become innovative, transformative, and disruptive communicators in the post-digital age. Design, Communication and Experiences MA is suitable for those with interests in graphic communication, visual communication, spatial design, fine arts, advertising, UX/UI, XR transformation and more. This studio-based MA encourages the free exchange and sharing of ideas, experimentation, peer group research, analysis, and critical evaluation within a positive and supportive environment. It seeks to develop graduates with strong self-belief and the ‘soft skills’ to confidently present their work and opinions. Specifically, the MA Design, Communication and Experiences programme allows a space to think broadly around emerging societal and commercial visual communication needs and offers students from industrial or academic backgrounds opportunities to experiment with ideas and concepts to create a portfolio of conceptual and speculative work. On MA Design, Communication and Experiences we welcome students from backgrounds in art, design, and technology, who wish to explore their practice through a mixture of traditional design practices and emerging technologies. This creative programme provides a post-graduate route for design professionals and academics to enter a global community, armed with the thinking skills they need to become the transformative communicators of the future. Social Impact You will use human-centred design processes to solve local and global challenges and see complex design problems as unique opportunities to create integrated experiences that deliver positive impact. This is an age where creatives are seizing the initiative, shaping their sectors, and joining with governments, businesses, consumers, and the wider public to enhance communication and tackle social issues. Future Focused You will set the agenda for how people interface with an increasing range of amorphous communication touchpoints. You will be the disruptive innovators who will be at the forefront of all our design futures; be they social or commercial; recognising the needs of changing demographics of place, environmental issues and race and gender; recognising how the digital and physical landscape surrounding us has negative and positive effects on how we interact with each other. Super Supportive You will be super-charged creative collaborators who can work with multiple partners across disciplines to deliver your vision. You will not only understand the needs of clients and end-users, but be able to partner with advertisers, artists, developers, product designers, architects, gamers, and content creators to bring trans-media experiences to life, exploring the interactions between environments and the needs of audiences and consumers.