School of Design - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
MSc Craft and Creative Business
Overview
The MSc Craft and Creative Business is the only multi-disciplinary postgraduate crafts programme in the UK dedicated to developing and integrating contemporary craft practice and crafts business. It answers the sector's need for craftspeople to hold specific business knowledge that can enable them to become internationally established.MSc Craft and Creative Business acknowledges that craftspeople are exemplars of portfolio life and are naturally entrepreneurial.
This course ultimately addresses entrepreneurialism and business strategy for crafts practitioners. The programme draws upon the diverse and internationally acclaimed research conducted in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and academic schools across the University of Dundee. Duncan of Jordanstone is one of the few Art & Design Colleges in the UK that is part of a world-class university (Times World University Rankings 2007).
This programme will be of interest to ceramic, furniture, jewellery and silversmith and, textile graduates across Scotland, the UK and the world, who are looking to extend their creative abilities, create and develop a sustainable business and increase their awareness of the global marketplace. In addition to craft practitioners we welcome anthropologists, curators, design managers, philosophers, photographers, and writers. We also welcome applications from people with alternative qualifications (including relevant work experience).
Aims of the Programme
The principal aim of MSc Craft and Creative Business is intense development and management of practitioners' creative ability and business acumen so that it reaches the highest standard, demonstrating originality and excellence. It focuses on equipping students with the skills to research, develop, evaluate and communicate craft and crafts business.
The programme will challenge craft makers, managers and coordinators to expose themselves to new experiences and audiences, new trans-disciplinary working practices, business knowledge and opportunities. It will deepen their understanding of all of the activities that collectively comprise the economy of the applied arts sector.
MSc Craft and Creative Business is a programme which reflects Duncan of Jordanstone College's multicultural and interdisciplinary approach to postgraduate studies. It provides the opportunity to work independently and collaboratively with fellow Master of Design, Design Ethnography, Fine Art, Forensic Art and Media Art colleagues.
Length of study: Full time 12 months, Part time 24 months
For more information please see the Admissions website and/or download the PDF.
Contact
Fiona Fyffe / Lynne Morris
Postgraduate Secretary
Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art & Design
University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HT
UK
Telephone: 01382 385429 (from the UK)
Telephone: +44 1382 385429 (from outside the UK)
Fax: 01382 201378 (from the UK)
Fax: +44 1382 201378 (from outside the UK)
Email: f.j.fyffe@dundee.ac.uk or l.p.morris@dundee.ac.uk
Images to the left are the copyright of Past, Present and Future Crafts Practice Project. Above: Tavs Jorgenson, below Maria Vuorinen.
