MA Digital Fashion Innovation

MA Digital Fashion innovation recognises individuals and their aspirations and celebrates ideas, making, and creative risk-taking. Our guiding principle is to offer distinctive, exciting and challenging opportunities for you to engage in your respective subject disciplines. This will help you critically engage with, and redefine your particular approaches to your practices and position them within your chosen external, creative, economic, and cultural environment.

MA Digital Fashion Innovation represents an exciting opportunity for you to challenge and build on your previous achievements and to study at an advanced level. The course provides specific discipline-focused project work aimed at enabling you to take the right path towards your chosen career in industry or progress to further study at doctorate level.

Unit 1: Strategies for practice
This unit comprises a range of projects that begin with re-visiting the fundamentals of digital fashion. Although some properties are likely to be familiar, you’re encouraged to analyse and critically evaluate how and why they are manifested in your practice. If your first degree discipline was not fashion focussed or if you are less familiar with working with digital technology, critical language and debates, these introductions to the digital and practical fashion and related tools required will give you the opportunity to develop skills and adjust to new ways of working. You’ll be challenged to articulate and question some of the basic assumptions that may underpin your practice.

This unit may consist of shared sessions encouraging and creating a network for all postgraduate students to attend alongside subject specialist sessions, which are particular to individual MA courses. MA specialist sessions require compulsory attendance for students on specific courses but, could, if space permits, be open to all students in the postgraduate network. You’ll identify theories relevant to your emerging study focus and research methods appropriate to these concerns for generating new knowledge and understanding, which will directly inform and identify your Masters Project proposal.

Unit 2: Master’s Project 1
Exploration: Requires you to formalise your intentions in a Study Plan, and to interrogate and explore contextual issues relevant to your study focus through your creative design practice.

Unit 3: Master’s Project 2
Implementation: Here you’ll carry through your plan of action identified in your proposal and establish ways of presenting and disseminating the outcomes of your creative design project, communicating your outcome to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Part-time pathway
The part-time pathway is carried out over a period of 90 weeks – rather than 45 weeks as in the full-time pathway.