University of Huddersfield, MA, Textiles

The Master's course encourages, and enables, interaction and cross-disciplinary enquiry and applied creativity within contemporary art and design practice; it seeks to develop heightened creative and analytical skills and extend the ability to challenge, question and propose innovative and new viewpoints associated with contemporary textile practice; an holistic approach is encouraged to critical enquiry and textile practice and its wider context within the international design, art or craft industries; engendered in the course is the opportunity for both individual and collective reflection and the establishment of a contextual and philosophical viewpoint on textile thinking, interpretation, realisation and practice; students are encouraged to exploit the potential of the extensive textile workshop facilities which include both digital and traditional textile technologies in woven, knitted, printed, embroidered and laser cut textiles; an experimental approach to textile practice/design is fostered; individual and group projects could span conceptual design for interiors or fashion, technical textiles, new technologies, hand crafted artefacts or textile art.