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MA - Master of Arts
Knights Park
Part Time
Sep 2026
2 Year
Collaborate with industry professionals to expand your design practiceThe Product and Furniture Design MA course at Kingston School of Art welcomes designers from varied disciplines who want to redefine the making of products and furniture.We see conventional notions of product and furniture design as a starting point – not a limit – to our individual and collective output.We are about the real and the imagined design, creating positive change for people, communities and places.You will build a portfolio that positions you for future design practice.The course concludes with an external London exhibition – attended by design professionals and the press.At Kingston, you'll join a community passionate about designing, making, and redefining the discipline of product and furniture design. This course encourages experimentation and collaboration across disciplines and externally to support future design practice.You'll gain insights into areas such as material exploration, research methods, and the cultural contexts for design. Through live projects with industry partners, you'll develop your professional practice.With access to state-of-the-art workshops, facilities and the guidance of leading practitioners and academics, you'll develop your ability to design products and furniture for real, imagined, and future scenarios. Reviews, group discussions, workshops, and a supportive studio culture will help you situate your practice.We ‘make' and ‘do' through an experimental studio and workshop culture that evolves both the theoretical and practical. Beyond practical approaches, you’ll question the economies of design, who can access it, and how design responds to current and emerging needs and behaviours.At Kingston, you'll build skills in:Innovative thinking and opportunity-findingIterative making and advanced prototyping techniquesPositioning your design practiceYou’ll benefit from top-quality teaching at Kingston University. We ranked Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, and our staff are leading practitioners and academics in product design, furniture design, social design, strategic design, innovation design, and related topics.
Students need to do a 12-month work placement as part of their course.
This module establishes that research is integral to the design process, and developing a robust understanding of practical, theoretical, and material approaches to it, is fundamental to enquiry-led practice. You are therefore asked to explore a diverse range of multidisciplinary practice-based research methods through engagement with externally facing, social, political, cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts.
Students need to do a 12-month work placement as part of their course.
This module establishes that many future jobs do not yet exist, so there are opportunities for you to play a part in co-creating them. You are therefore asked to critically consider current roles for designers, emerging fields of design, and how we might reframe, or even reinvent, our future design practice. Throughout this module you will be expected to take an unbounded approach to design, using ‘what-if’ questions to open spaces for critical debate and imaginative thought. Through projects and workshops (Element 1) we will anticipate new multidimensional and hybrid practices and investigate the possibilities of designer as maker / curator / social innovator / educator / activist. This exploration will support you producing a Major Project Proposal (Element 2) for a sustained independent project realised in TB3.
Students need to do a 12-month work placement as part of their course.
This module provides a dedicated product and furniture design study opportunity. It occurs in Teaching Block 1. Students are offered a number of optional and compulsory briefs engaging both practical and theoretical design faculties. Briefs are open to individual interpretation, designed to promote creative independence and establish the benchmark of Level 7 critical expectation at the outset of the student experience.
Students need to do a 12-month work placement as part of their course.
This Teaching Block 2 module extends and builds directly upon the dedicated product and furniture design study experience of Teaching Block 1. It runs in parallel with the Creative Futures module DE7301 on the full time mode and exercises independent, focused practical design research to underpin the Major Project proposal undertaken within DE7301. The module aims to prepare students to begin realisation of their Major (capstone) Project upon completion. Students take responsibility for either continuing to develop their thematic practical design enquiries already established in Context I, refining and editing material and developing new research and study as necessary, or embarking upon new self-initiated enquiries.
Students need to do a 12-month work placement as part of their course.
In this module, you will define and realise your Major Project. The module establishes a space for developing your future practice through a substantial body of research and experimentation, and the integration of learning from previous modules. You will be supported through tutorials, reviews and peer-to-peer activities. You will be expected to bring an individual critical position to your project, in an expanded mode of your discipline and its possibilities.
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