Design Products (MA)
About
Design Products embraces a pluralistic approach through a number of design directions within which our designers develop powerful individual and collaborative design identities. These identities represent emerging discourses and new territories for design in shaping future connections between technology and society. Design Products enables students to conceptualise and validate ideas by canvassing, participating, provoking, challenging, and questioning people, places, technology, things and systems.
Design Products encourages proactive designers who can tackle both real world and future challenges through balancing high levels of creativity and technical delivery with contextual insight, empathy and diversity. We test and stretch the boundaries of design practice in order to develop solutions to a wide array of global challenges.
The graduating works by our designers on the platforms: ‘Design through Making’, ‘Design for Manufacture’, ‘Object Mediated Interactions’, ‘Design as Catalyst’ and the ‘Design Futures’ pathway are driven by an unrelenting urge to uncover the new. This year we partnered with OPPO for a cross-platform project under the brief 'Humanising Technology'.
Design Products Catalogue: issuu.com
Too Many Designers (2MD) Publication Website: 2md.netlify.app
Too Many Designers issue01: issuu.com
Instagram: @rca_designproducts
Study Design Products at the RCA: www.rca.ac.uk
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Curated by Peter Russell-Clarke
A new Design Products MA pathway
Curated by John Thackara
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Curated by Tomoko Azumi
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Humanising Technology
Sponsors
OPPO
Together with leading electronics brand, OPPO, students have investigated the relationship between design, technology and humanity.
The brief, titled “Humanising Technology” is born from observing how today’s mobile phones have become indispensable to communication in our lives. Science and technology are making huge progress, communications are accelerating, but our personal lives and relations often suffer.
OPPO London Design Center worked closely with students by sharing OPPO’s perspective, case studies and research materials. Designers from OPPO provided feedback and tutored the students during the whole process.
The projects developed reveal a vision of Design as a mediating factor; celebrating technology, embracing humanity.