入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求： Relevant Honours degree; evidence of experiential learning equivalent to a degree; or 3 years relevant professional experience.
Portfolio advice
The design portfolio should consist of several design projects and include design development and sketchbook work. The portfolio should evidence the following:
•Strong design and technical skills
•A personal approach to developing a design concept (including research, design development and final outputs)
•A knowledge and understanding of materials
•A creative approach to visual communication and presentation.
英语要求：IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in any one paper, or equivalent.
学费 Tuition Fee：2012/13 £9,900 per year.
课程特征 Course Features：
The MA Textile Futures ethos is to approach textile design as a form of industrial design but with a focus on the language and codes inherent to textiles. By exploring key contextual questions to interrogate, critique and propose new design concepts, we invite our designers to engage fully with the challenges of designing for the 21st century. How do we reconcile ecology and smart technology? With current progress in nanotechnologies, how do we engineer invisible functions with new aesthetics? How can biomimicry principles inform the design of resilient textiles? Will scientists become designers? With digital fabrications becoming mainstream, what future for craft? How can textiles lead to the development of smart interactive interface? Can textiles inform a new way to imagine architecture? These are examples of questions MA Textile Futures will consider over the two year postgraduate programme.
课程内容 Course Content ：
MA Textile Futures lasts 60 weeks structured as two consecutive periods of 30 weeks each (i.e. two academic years) in its 'extended full-time mode'.
MA Textile Futures is credit rated at 180 credits, and comprises 2 units. Unit 1 (60 credits) lasts 20 weeks. Unit 2 (120 credits) runs for 10 weeks in the first year and 30 weeks in the second year.
Both units must be passed in order to achieve the MA, but the classification of the award of MA derives from your mark for Unit 2 only.
Unit 1 - Design Challenge
This unit introduces you to key issues that will affect the short, medium and long-term future of designing for the textile and creative industry. A set of design challenges will be engineered to encourage you to develop your own creative agenda in response to and in anticipation of future scenarios. You will be exposed to new materials, processes, technologies and design methodologies and will use textiles as a platform to critically interrogate our sustainable future. These projects might include work with or on smart textiles, new materials, interactive design, sustainable textiles, trend forecasting, branding, fashion, and craft futures.
Unit 2 - Design Futures
This unit is all about developing and realising your personal design project, which has to be located within a chosen 'future'. During this period of mostly self-directed study you'll produce a body of comprehensive research and develop appropriate methodologies. The research element of your personal design project informs the creative process and is reflected in the Masters thesis, which is a critical evaluation of your design project. You're encouraged to take risks in the production of a body of experimental work before realising the final design work. Besides being original and innovative, what you produce will advance the discipline of textile design.
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