MA and Mres Design Critical Practice

Welcome Introduction

What do you study?

Masters in Design Critical PracticeStudio Practice- Spaces Term 1Studio Practice- Creative Technology Term 2Studio Practice- Major Project Term3 & 4Methods and ProcessesDiscourses Critical Context Essays

MRes in DesignBring your own project as your research interestDivided into 3 sections1. Defining the project Term 12. Methods and Processes of your project Term 23. Doing and exhibiting your work Term 3 & 4

Methods and Processes

The consumption spaceThe production space The intermediary zone

Innovator

Mediating Lens

Context of Production Context of Consumption

Situation of InnovatorsSuppliers

Manufacturing

Production

Raw Materials

ZONE 1 ZONE 2

ZONE 3

Contemporary Culture

Society

User

Object

Site

Event/Situation Bubble

Materials Speed Dating- Martin Conreen, Materials Library, Kings College

Drawing as reflexive Process

Giles Lane - Proboscis

Student Work MA & MRes

An Introduction to Masters in Design Critical Practice and Mres in Design

Exhibition of Work

Discourse in the Studio

Henri Lefebvre

Slavoj ZizekI don’t believe in combining things. I hate this approach of taking a bit from Lacan, a little bit from Foucault, a little bit from Derrida. No, I don’t believe in this; I believe in clear cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is the multidisciplinary modesty of ‘what I am saying now is not unconditional; it is just a hypothesis’, and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and to expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

Mike Michael

Elizabeth Shove

Clive DilnotEssentially design is nothing else but the encounter with given realities (actualities, situations, circumstances, conditions or experiences) in terms of their transformative possibilities and potentialities. Design opens these possibilities…it is the actualisation of the possible.

Dilnot, Clive, ‘Design? Ethics?,’ The Archeworks Papers, Vol 1 No 2, 2005