Course summary

The BA (Hons) Craft & Design will provide an opportunity to progress from level 4 and level 5 study in a combination of Design Craft Making disciplines or be adaptive to innovate an individual making discipline. Higher-level skills will be developed in primarily ceramics, textiles and metals, using design processes and digital design applications to realise personal investigative ideas and solutions. Contextual and professional awareness will underpin academic research and making of design and craft. This programme is suitable for level 5 students progressing from full and part-time art and design related courses. It will also appeal to industry professionals, who have an interest in design craft and digital applications within design. This programme will provide an opportunity to develop practical and academic skills beginning with modules which develop design skills and contextual research providing an engagement with the professional world of design and craft through a design for industry module and an academic research module that provides relevant background for the rest of the final year. Working through the design for industry module will enable students to understand how the parameters of live briefs or situations can be used to create design solutions and a professional presentation. Through researching historic and contemporary visual and written material for the research module students gain an understanding of the context of the professional nature of art, design, craft. An important aspect of the final year will be how students continue the development of their personal professional practice. They will evidence their explorations with ideas and materials through a technical research project in which they will conduct individual and relevant research into art, craft design practice and engagement with technical challenges and solutions. Outcomes you develop and produce from this broad experimentation will culminate as your Final Major Project and will be shown as an exhibition. In the second semester the relevant detail and practice that has been developed is showcased in a way the support the opportunity for self-employment, and activity linked to making a living from design craft practice. The programme will promote and support reflective practitioners, effective communication in a variety of forms to a range of audiences. The Art & Design team, as educators and practitioners are part of a large network of local employers, makers and organisations. Our Alumni work within local, national and international creative industries, across a range of art and design practice. The programme will take a global approach to studying design craft and making; this course will aim to be unique in its breadth of practice within Cornwall.