MA Designer/Maker*

UWE Bristol's MA Designer/Maker course has a wide appeal to experienced or aspiring practitioners from across creative disciplines. Our interdisciplinary outlook supports you, as the next generation of makers, to pioneer innovative material-led approaches in design practice.

Why study this course?

The MA Designer/Maker at UWE Bristol re-asserts the role of craft and making in design, industry, and artistic contexts. The course supports the next generation of makers as they pioneer innovative material-led approaches in design practice. You will be encouraged to develop pivotal alternatives to urgent issues in design, in response to contemporary narratives and global discourse.

The course has a wide appeal to experienced or aspiring practitioners from across creative disciplines, offering time, resources and access to a creative community to support personal development. You'll hone project management skills and work at an autonomous, professional level. Through hands-on engagement with matter, thinking through making and artefact creation, you will develop as a responsible, open-minded practitioner capable of responding with creative agility and resilience.

Why UWE Bristol?

As a Designer/Maker, you will benefit from the School of Arts' outstanding interdisciplinary expertise and technical resources. Our City Campus workshops and facilities provide access to a breadth of physical fabrication and advanced digital technologies. You can also take advantage of the specialist research expertise available at our Centres for Print Research and Digital Cultures Research.

As a creative student, you'll be perfectly placed studying in Bristol, a socially and politically progressive city, widely recognised as one of the most creatively influential settings in the UK. Our strong partnerships with local organisations mean you'll benefit from their input along with many valuable networking opportunities in this thriving creative context.

Where can it take me?

You will graduate with a globally recognised qualification and have a broad range of options available to you regionally, as well as nationally and internationally. Our MA Designer/Maker graduates leave with the skills and knowledge for careers as practitioners, creative industry professionals, freelance designers, and educators, as well as the potential to progress to PhD study. Following the MA Designer/Maker course, you may be inspired to launch your own products or develop a business enterprise.

Careers / Further study

You will be taught by practising designers, makers, and researchers, bringing their skills and expertise exclusively to you studying at postgraduate level.

You will have the opportunity to enter or continue employment in the creative industries in professional studios, as a self-employed designer/maker, as a designer running your own businesses, or in teaching in both formal and community education programmes.

You may also choose to progress to PhD study at UWE Bristol or elsewhere.

Our award-winning Careers Service helps you develop your employment potential through career coaching, a vacancy service for internships, placements, jobs, global opportunities, volunteering and community activity plus support for entrepreneurial activity, and access to employer events.

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