About the course

London has long been recognized internationally as a vibrant and forward-thinking ‘design’ capital. As home to many prestigious museums, design and architectural studios, design publishers and critics, the UK Design Council, the 2012 Olympics, and other creative industries, the city offers opportunities for thinking about design like no other.

A new MA Design Writing Criticism course – the first of its kind in the UK – was launched in October 2008 with a cohort of part-time students whose professional practices ranged from design/architectural studios, teaching and social networking to trend forecasting. This rich and diverse mix of backgrounds, approaches and perspectives has informed the discourse of design writing/criticism, while at the same time the synergies between them has opened up new lines of inquiry.

The overarching course philosophy is an emphasis on research, process and critical thinking, and allows individual and personal concerns to be explored through focused study in one particular area of design writing/criticism. This website, designed and produced by students currently undertaking coursework, is intended to provide a ‘public’ forum for their explorations, to allow for the testing of their writing, ideas and designed forms, to generate active participation in current design debates and a method of engaging constructive feedback from their peers. It also presents an unique opportunity for students to document the development of this course while at the same time sharing experiences from their own authorial positions.

We consider our journey a collective one where students and tutors engage in productive discourses with professional writers/storytellers, curators, journalists, designers/architects, critics, cultural historians and educators. This website is the first of a number of student initiatives encouraging such an exchange. Please watch (and engage with) this space.


Professor Teal Triggs
Course Director

 

Please note that this site is about and managed by MA DWC students. For any ‘official’ information about the course please see the London College of Communication website where you will find up-to-date application forms, fee structures, an FAQ sheet and guidelines for applying.

We are recruiting now for an October start.