MA Design (Fashion) at Arts University Plymouth is an opportunity to reimagine the status quo of fashion and to use a research-led, practical exploration of materials, processes and technologies to propose new strategies for the industry. This course will give you the opportunity to dive deep into current practices and theories in Fashion Design that are transforming the nature of this rapidly changing sector through a direct, critical interrogation of its standards and hands-on research. Designed to foster both design entrepreneurs and creative practitioners, our MA Design (Fashion) encourages you to build upon your existing knowledge or fashion experience to develop a fashion project realised through new material applications, circular production protocols and systems thinking in a research-based, studio centred enquiry.
Your fashion research and creative development will happen together, where your existing practice or industry experience will act as the foundation for guided experiments to deconstruct and reimagine the assumptions embedded within both design education and fashion cultures.You will benefit from embarking on this study journey within a truly interdisciplinary academic context, enriched by ongoing input from industry specialists and institutional partners who will help ground your experiments with real world challenges and opportunities. Through external briefs, your ideas and proposals will take on professional dimensions and provide you with a period of focused making through a full iterative evolution, from concept to prototype to product or service, providing you with both the creative agency and industry networks required to succeed in the field.
Expected July 2027
Start date
October 2026
Main Site
Tavistock Place,
Plymouth,
Devon,
PL4 8AT, Southern England, United Kingdom
MA applicants are normally expected to have an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, the strength of your creative practice and other forms of experience will be taken into account at the interview stage and we encourage you to start a conversation with us.
Your portfolio should give us an indication of the work that you have made, organised or been involved in. For our postgraduate arts, craft and design courses, we expect to see examples of work you have created.
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