Course summary
This programme allows students to engage with the craft of user-led and co-created innovation in design practice across a variety of fields and in widely differentiated social, economic, technological and industrial contexts. The course aims to respond to the changed context of design practice in the 21st century, where the discipline-based skills of the product designer, ceramicist, visual communicator or textile designer sit alongside the working practices and expertise of a professionally-diverse and often globally-dispersed workforce. The programme is aimed at postgraduate students who wish to expand and develop their creative practice through an exploration of user-led, collaborative and research-focused techniques of design innovation; it encourages students to identify historically novel or nascent areas in which the complexity of contemporary life threatens to overwhelm any existing solutions, systems, services or design responses and to pioneer collaborative and user-led solutions for these through the deployment of design innovation strategies and creative thinking.
Assessment method
Assessment throughout the programme is by a combination of individual essay or group project, written and oral examination.
Entry requirements
Good degree in a relevant area plus, normally a portfolio of work.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Channel Islands | £22679* | Year 1 |
| England | £8820* | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £8820* | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £8820* | Year 1 |
| Wales | £8820* | Year 1 |
| EU | £22679* | Year 1 |
| International | £22679* | Year 1 |
*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
EU Students with Pre-Settled or Settled Status in the UK may be eligible for Home Fees. A full fee assessment will be made upon receipt of a completed application.
Provider information
Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G3 6RQ