Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery

MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery focuses on your individual design practice and will broaden your career and research horizons.

Through researching, analysing, designing, making and immersion in material processes, this course will challenge you to make your mark on the global design industry. This course offers three pathways: Ceramics, Furniture and Jewellery. It is part of the Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design programme.

Why choose this course at Central Saint Martins:

• Multiple disciplines within one ethos: MA Design principally considers three areas of practice – ceramics, furniture or jewellery – each with rich traditions of material creativity and innovation. Opportunities emerge within and between disciplines, encouraging hybrid practices to disrupt assumptions. Students apply with a prospective research focus in one of these subjects and develop this research focus into an in-depth area of professional practice over the timeline of the MA.

• Personal and responsive: Ideas that seemed unimaginable at the outset iterate through design as concepts are exposed to alternative futures. This adventurous space offers insights and opportunities, developing models into working prototypes.

• Transformation: Design is transformational of individuals, enterprises, publics, services and the practice of design itself. MA Design explores entrepreneurial models and sustainable approaches, developing your skills as an innovative, creative, attuned and articulate practitioner. Through rigorous, reflective and speculative processes, we define ethical and resilient futures.

• Agile practices: Within the Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design programme, we celebrate diverse cultural perspectives, differing knowledges and remain continually curious. We are pro-active in seeking contributors to enrich debate from design industries and communities.

• Global networks: This course embraces social, cultural, material, economic and technological innovation. Understanding specialist knowledges empowers generative research and practice. By positioning your work in the wider world, design transformations actively support diverse communities and entrepreneurial innovation.