MFA Design for Interactive Art & Experiences
Edinburgh Napier University
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OverviewThe MFA Design for Interactive Art Experiences will afford you the opportunity to develop your individual practice and make an in-depth exploration of design and visual arts principles for the creation of interactive and responsive environments. You will work with traditional and digital fabrication methods and apply programming for digital media, software and hardware. You will learn the skills and attitude to rapidly adopt new technology, software and hardware and bend it to your ...Read more

Overview

The MFA Design for Interactive Art Experiences will afford you the opportunity to develop your individual practice and make an in-depth exploration of design and visual arts principles for the creation of interactive and responsive environments. You will work with traditional and digital fabrication methods and apply programming for digital media, software and hardware. You will learn the skills and attitude to rapidly adopt new technology, software and hardware and bend it to your will.

For the initial part of your studies, you will work with peers in the sibling programmes MA Design for Interactive Experience and MA Heritage and Exhibition Design. Your study in the first year will determine your practice-based work in the second year. The second year is self-directed study in tandem with subject supervisors, where you will develop a major project for public display and explore your own professional practice.

The MFA is recognised as an advanced masters level degree and students already holding an appropriate MA can apply to enter the programme directly into the second year of study.

Course details

The MFA Interactive Art & Experiences programme works at the intersection of creativity and new and emerging technology, attracting applicants with backgrounds in both design and the visual arts, as well as computing and engineering.

Technologically driven creative interventions are deployed increasingly as objects or spaces, both as a form of critique on the challenges of modern life, and to enhance user experiences and the quality of life. Your studies will focus on and around interaction between the physical and the digital.

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75/101
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33rd
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86th
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Oluwatosin
24 Jan 24

Each time my fee doesn't come in early enough from my bank, I get frustrated and threatened. Since I choose to study this course , I will definitely be paying to get my..Read more

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Réjane
24 Jan 24

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Entry requirements

The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at 2:2 or above. We look for applicants to have a background in any discipline in order to be eligible for the programme.

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£5,680 per year

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£5,680 per year

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Students from Other UK

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Republic of Ireland: £5,680

£5,680 per year

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Students from Scotland

£5,680 per year

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Students from Wales

£5,680 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

£13,495 per year

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Students from EU

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£13,495 per year

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Oluwatosin
24 Jan 24
MA Design for Interactive Art & Experiences
Each time my fee doesn't come in early enough from my bank, I get frustrated and threatened. Since I choose to study this course , I will definitely be paying to get my...
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Réjane
24 Jan 24
MA Design for Interactive Art & Experiences
The city and the course structure...
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Edinburgh Napier University
219 Colinton Road Edinburgh Scotland EH14 1DJ United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Slateford  0.4 miles away
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