Undergraduate study 2013 prospectus

General information

This course promotes an alternative approach to Three Dimensional Studies, through a combination of studio and industrial techniques encompassing Furniture making, Wood, Ceramics, fine and heavy Metalwork, Jewellery making and Silversmithing.

We continue to develop links with industry; all academic staff are practising artists, designers and theorists who encourage students' full professional participation; subscribing to the idea that design, a product of negotiation and the object, should evolve through research and experimentation.

Working across our courses diversity provides a variety of ways in which students can work and generate new ways of thinking – 3D Design: New Practice. It accommodates those who choose to focus on one subject, whilst providing for others a more experimental approach to creative production and extended possibilities of manufacture.

3D: New Practice is an evolution of traditional skills, modern manufacturing, and latest methodologies and the course builds upon its reputation for producing skilled designers and practising artists.

We provide an extraordinary variety of creative facilities incorporating traditional techniques, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacture and rapid prototype technology. This allows you to develop a personalised ‘toolbox’ enabling a more sophisticated description of their practice – functional/expressive, art or product.

Selection

The School welcomes applicants with both traditional and non-traditional qualifications. It is preferred that applicants will have completed a Foundation Diploma or similar, in order to produce a portfolio on which, in conjunction with an interview, selection is largely based. However, this is no longer mandatory and consideration will be given to applicants applying from A-Level study.

Career Prospects

As a graduate from this course it will provide many opportunities. Students in the past have gone on to: industry designers, self employed artist/craftspeople, teachers, arts administrators, and many more design related roles.

Course structure

In Year 1 relationships between craftsmanship, design, production and theory are investigated through a variety of processes and projects, which generate an atmosphere of experimentation and critical debate. These projects allow you to work across the facilities informing a greater understanding of the variety of approaches that exist within the programmes’ subject area.

In Year 2 staff present new project opportunities which will support your personal direction and help you to liaise with the commercial or industrial environment.

In their final year, you will consolidate your studies either in context of a single subject area or through new models of research which utilise broad areas of their ‘3D’ interest.

Year 1

Studio Practice

• Materials to Processing
• Creativity and Functionality
• 2D to 3D
• Design: A Product of Negotiation

Critical and Historical Studies

• Research, Analysis and Study Skills in Art and Design

Year 2

Studio Practice

• Atelier and Factory
• Research and Strategies for Design and Making
• Creativity and Market

Critical and Historical Studies

• Professional and Business Practice

Optional modules:

• Design and Material Culture: Histories and Theories
• Art Histories and Theories
• Visual Culture: Histories and Theories
• Professional and Enterprising Practice

Year 3

Studio Practice

• Consolidating Interests
• 3D Major Project

Critical and Historical Studies

• Art and Design Dissertation

Study options and entry requirements

Here you will find information about the various study options available for this course and the entry requirements for each option.

SQA = Scottish Qualifications Authority IB = International Baccalaureate