Applications

Limerick School of Art and Design have launched their new MA in Art and Design, which focuses on Social Practice and the Creative Environment. This unique programme is designed to fulfil student demand from art, design and related fields, nationally and internationally. This is a one-year full-time taught MA programme, multidisciplinary in nature, which focuses on the growing area of social practice.

The course offers you a strong theoretical and critical grounding on the area of social practice, equips you with appropriate research skills, educates you in the roles you will play within communities/situations/spaces, and ultimately, offers you a deep level of authentic experience and situated learning within the context of the delivery and documentation of your self-chosen social practice project

Initially the course leads you through the critical and theoretical frameworks current in the field of social practice. Semester One is designed to fuel your practice by providing the context for engagement in a variety of social contexts. You will meet key artists, designers, policy makers, agencies and brokers of public situations, who will put forward models of best practice. The second stage of the course places you as a practitioner working in your chosen area of interest; you will undertake a project, through which you will reflect on, document and present.

Duration
One year taught Masters in Art and Design (full-time), 2 year taught Masters in Art and Design (part-time).

The course is composed of 5 modules.
Module 1: Commentaries – Critical Grounding, Taking a Position. This module introduces you to the critical thinking underpinning contemporary art and design practice and its relationship to social and cultural issues.
Module 2: Transactions, Roles and Research. This looks at the different roles, ethical and logistical responsibilities involved in a social practice project.
Module 3: Practice – Analyse, Contextualise, Assimilate. Delivered by guest lecturers, this looks at case studies of art and design practitioners with a focus on social engagement.
Module 4: Social Practice: Major Project. An exciting opportunity for you to engage with a community/situation/space and deliver a socially engaged art/design project
Module 5: Documentation: Critical Reflection and Evaluation of Major Project. This involves you documenting and reflecting on their chosen social practice project

In 2010-2011, throughout the MA SPACE programme more than twenty visiting lecturers came to Limerick School of Art and Design specifically to work with postgraduates students on the programme.

These included; Wochenklauser, Danish Artist Collective; Superflux, UK/India based Design Company; Gideon Koppel, UK based Film Maker; Dr. Adam de Eyto, Sustainable Designer and Researcher; Sarah Browne, Artist; Sarah Tuck - Director of CREATE; Cliodhna Shaffrey, Independent Curator; Dr. Eileen Humphries, Sociologist/Researcher; Caroline Campbell - The Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation (IVARO); Phillip Delamere, Arts Office, Roscommon County Council; Dr. Luigina Ciolfi, Research Officer, Interaction Design Centre.

Minimum Entry Requirements
Candidates entering the course must have: A minimum 2.2 honours degree in their chosen Art, Design, Humanities, and/or related fields of study e.g. Architecture, New Media, the Performing Arts and Multi-Media

Or

Equivalent qualifications including the pre-NFQ NCEA National Diploma. Applicants with equivalent qualifications on the European and International frameworks will also be considered. International students must evidence a proficiency in English language.

All qualified candidates will be interviewed in order to assess their interest in or previous experience in the area of Social Practice, and their potential contribution to the group dynamic. Applicants will also need to undergo Garda Vetting, as many students may work with groups containing children and/or vulnerable adults.

First round MA SPACE applications for the academic year 2016-17 are now being considered. Please send a completed application form (see download button above) and email it to muriel.dinneen@lit.ie or post a hard copy of your application to the address below.
Deadline for first round applications is 5pm on Friday 5th February, 2016

Postal address:
Muriel Dinneen
School Administrator
Limerick School of Art and Design LIT
Clare Street, Limerick.

Tel: 061-293871 Fax: 061-311496

For Further Information Contact:

email: muriel.dinneen@lit.ie tel : +353(0)61 293871