Why study BA Design Crafts at Middlesex University?

This course focuses on the creative possibilities of designing through making, and invites you to immerse yourself in multi-disciplinary materials and processes. You will enjoy access to industry-leading workshops, experimenting and creating with metals, ceramics, plaster, glass, plastics, wood, textiles, printing, as well as new technologies such as 3D scanning and printing. From your own dedicated studio space in our state-of-the-art £80m facility, your making skills will be enhanced by a rigorous and questioning approach to critical thinking, enabling you to create innovative new possibilities and contexts for your work.

Led by highly regarded practitioners and expert technicians, the BA Design Crafts programme challenges conventional boundaries to reinvent traditions of making objects and products. The outcomes can have a multitude of contexts such as objects for the home, to decorate the body, for practical use or perhaps purely for contemplation. Anything is possible, and this degree will help you explore both established and new territories for making.

Live projects are embedded throughout the course and in the past students have worked with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA). These will help will help you develop entrepreneurial skills and business acumen in order to establish yourself as an independent designer-maker producing your own designs in small batches or as one-offs. Your professional skills will be honed with practical briefs and specialist training. These skills may also open opportunities as a consultant to industry and manufacturers, for example as a freelance designer of jewellery, fashion accessories, or home-wares.

In addition to the standard three-year full-time course you also have the opportunity to incorporate an additional one-year professional practice placement for which you will receive an Advanced Diploma Professional Practice: Design Crafts at graduation.

BA Design Crafts is part of the Design Department, giving you proximity to students studying Fashion and Interiors with the potential for exciting collaborative projects.Whether you are taking the first steps into higher education, looking to start your own business or changing direction in your profession, we have the facilities, industry links and world-class expertise to help you develop and make extraordinary things.

Course highlights

• You will have access toÊspecialist workshop facilitiesÊand a dedicated studio space
• You will learn through a multidisciplinary approach
• You will explore and study traditional techniques as well as new and emerging technologies
• You will gain industry insights and professional networks through lectures and visits from high-profile guest lecturers
• You will have access to the inspirational cultural wealth of LondonÕs museums, galleries, architecture and shops, as well as participating in regular field trips across the UK and abroad
• You will have the opportunity for inclusion in one of the largest Art and Design Degree Shows in London, based at Middlesex University
• As a student of this course you'll receive aÊfree electronic textbookÊfor every module.