In the second semester, the focus moves to dynamic and data-driven web applications, immersive experiences such as game design, cross-disciplinary design and the artistic dimensions of design as creative practice. Teaching is through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions and studios. In the first semester, the programme focuses on developing design thinking and digital skills, exploring approaches to design of interactive media, and discussion of cultural theories about living and working with digital media. Projects encourage original thinking and independent achievement within a framework of team-working and creative ability. Teaching is through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions and critique.

Our programme is practice-led and there are significant demands on our students to create innovative design for, and with, digital media and technologies across a range of creative contexts that can include: Things that are not themselves digital are commonly designed digitally.ĭigital design requires a multi-perspective approach to developing media and interactive experiences, and this programme deals with the complex relationships between design and digital media. The products and services we use, the environment we inhabit, the information we use, or are presented with, are all designed with specific intent. Design, also, continually shapes contemporary experience. How we communicate, our social life, the core of our society, is now based on digital media. At work, in education, in leisure and entertainment, even in sport, digital tools and devices are everywhere. What will I study?ĭigital media technology is at the heart of modern life. Based in a lively, collaborative environment, the programme provides a critical and reflective framework to explore practice-led design and digital media in commercial, cultural and social contexts. The Design and Digital Media programme offers opportunities for you to develop new and existing skills and insights in the creative use of current and emerging design practices and technologies for digital media across a range of uses and platforms.

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