The BA/BSc International Design programme is a one year Level 6 award that allows students from anywhere in the world to convert their diploma into an honours degree. We invite students from any field of design to join us in the creative and thoughtful development of novel design solutions and outcomes and to become a designer with a truly global outlook.
This programme offers you the opportunity to create and learn alongside people from another part of the world and to extend your skills as a strategic designer with an international focus. It will also prepare you for further postgraduate study, doctoral research and publishing if that is your ambition.
The International Design programme builds upon your individual strengths and experiences as an emerging professional designer. It will build your self-confidence and self-development by teaching you how to think strategically and to creatively confront new challenges. The programme is designed around you and is supported by expert tutors who will encourage you to decide upon your own direction and strategies.
The programme welcomes students from any design background including Graphic Design, Fashion or Textile Design, Interior Design, Product Design, User Experience Design or Craft Design. You will work together within in an interdisciplinary design environment strengthening your existing skills and practices within an international context. You will generate a body of work that has international scope and awareness and will make you highly employable and comfortable with diverse International clients.
The world needs creative and flexible designers who can take a broad and creative view of design and welcome new and unfamiliar ideas and techniques. You will join other students many of whom speak and write English as a second language, and are studying abroad as a learning adventure. Although most of our students are from the UK, Cardiff School of Art & design is home to creative students from every continent. You will have the chance to work with and alongside these students and to make friends and future colleagues around the world. Some previous experience or knowledge of European design would be useful to you but is not essential.
The focus of the programme is to not only support and develop your skills as a practicing designer, but to provide you with the skills and flexibility to continually position your work within unfamiliar international contexts.
Through a combination of seminars, workshops, and studio-based practice, you will be supported by a dedicated team of academics, practitioners and experts to develop a range of interdisciplinary skills to creatively adapt to the demands of an international design environment. These include;
- Knowledge of how to shape design for particular social, cultural and economic contexts and market circumstances;
- Advanced design skills as well as the skills of international design negotiation and promotion;
- Knowledge of how to act as global citizens and problem solvers, and to negotiate complex cultural nuances through design practice;
- The Development of nuanced visual thinking and visual communication skills to communicate within an international, interdisciplinary context.
- An awareness of emerging global issues of concern and also the barriers to creative design.
Modules:
Subject (Orientation):
Is design really global? Or do designers unwittingly reinforce their own economic, historic, social and cultural models. This module will teach you how to play with ideas that question and develop your design practice. You will explore how designers might think in parts of the world with which you are not familiar, or know only from what you have seen in films or on TV. You will develop a deeper understanding of how your own practice has economic, historic, social and cultural practices embedded in it that you might not realise and which seem foreign to others who do not share that context.
As a part of your subject module you will also explore visual thinking and visual communication strategies that will help you to creatively explore unfamiliar international contexts and communicate your ideas amidst a diverse range of language abilities.
Constellation:
Your Constellation module will support you in the development of a deeper understanding of how to map and position the international historical, socio-cultural, economic and theoretical context of your subject work. We recognise that English may not be your first language and so the programme tutors will work closely with you to help you write a dissertation, a technical report or to present your project verbally and visually.
Exhibition:
Built around a major project and an exhibition brief, the module will give you the chance to develop a professional presentation of your design strategies and solutions. This presentation will be the culmination of your work on the International Design programme and should provide you with a substantial basis on which to build your future career as an International Designer.
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