About BA (hons) Product And Furniture Design in University of the Arts London

BA Product and Furniture Design puts making at the centre of design production. This ensures you develop your practical skills. You will combine these with a critical and investigative approach to objects.

What to expect

• To develop a flexible approach to materials and practice in a shifting landscape in order to develop an understanding of the agility and resilience required for the designer-maker approach to contemporary creative industries and audiences
• To study people’s interaction with objects as well explore social science techniques to enable you to develop your work so that it might have practical, aesthetic or playful uses
• To work with our heritage and museum sector partners to design objects and explore ethnographic studies of social conventions in the museum, heritage and experience design sector. Additionally, projects will consider curatorial, community, diversity and access issues
• To develop an understanding of key ethical, critical, technical and theoretical debates in the area of product and furniture design
• In year 1 you will have the opportunity to design and make furniture
• In year 2 you will work in public places considering the use of local materials, contexts and social concerns to communicate a sense of place or to solve local issues
• To develop a range of critical, creative, technical and professional skills relevant to employment in product design, furniture and related areas
• To experiment with new and existing technologies and materials to develop successful products
• To develop research and analysis skills that encourage both critical reflection, intellectual risk taking and the development of effective and appropriate communication methods
• To develop experience and knowledge of collaborative co-creative methodologies to stimulate new partnerships with stakeholders, audiences and institutions both locally and globally
• To have access to Chelsea's shared workshops.

Entry requirements

• High School leaving examinations - We will consider any High School leaving examinations that are considered to be the equivalent to A-level examinations in the UK.

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.0 - 6.5 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each component.
• TOEFL iBT: 80 - 90 overall.
• PTE Academic: 51 - 58 (with no less than 51 in each component).

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