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This module will embed learning within a framework of live design practice. You will work collaboratively alongside staff, students and collaborative partners on a range of live research and knowledge exchange projects with external clients. In negotiation with teaching staff, you will undertake a self-generated design project with an external client or collaborative partner where the appropriate learning outcomes can be achieved.

This module requires you to take responsibility for your project aims and collaborative processes, work to professional standards and work autonomously within a larger design team and client body that may include interdisciplinary approaches. You will need to demonstrate leadership whilst managing complex open-ended technical design problems and processes.

At the beginning of the module, you will negotiate an Individual Learning Agreement with the teaching staff to define the learning to be undertaken, how it will satisfy the requirements of post-graduate (Level 11) study and how these activities will address the learning outcomes of the module. You will keep a learning journal throughout the module to document and critically reflect on your learning.

In summary of the module, you will produce a multimedia portfolio that documents the range of professional knowledge, skills and critical reflection that you have gained and applied in this module. This documentary portfolio will be supported by a written reflective report where you will critically analyse and appraise the quality of your own work within the context of the professional environment you were working within. The final outcome of the module will be designed to be displayed as an exhibition in the Degree Show.

LO1: Demonstrate a critical understanding of the role of the designer within a professional multi-disciplinary working environment.
LO2: Apply advanced design knowledge, skills and understanding to conceptualise and execute (in collaboration with others) a significant design composition utilising physical modelling, testing or other appropriate technical skills.
LO3: Demonstrate abstract thinking, evaluation and synthesis to collaboratively develop original creative and appropriate responses to open ended technical, social, cultural and aesthetic problems.
LO4: Utilise a wide range of appropriate visual and aural presentation and illustrative techniques to effectively communicate research, concepts and outcomes in a final showcase of your work.
LO5: Exercise significant autonomy, initiative and reflexivity in the context of your design specialism.