Furniture: Design and Make BA (Hons)
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Description
The programme provides a work-related Honours top-up progression route from the current Foundation Degree in Furniture Design and Make. The programme will consist of two key elements focussing on independent and industry-linked projects.
Independent (personal): Establishing a self-initiated brief through a significant written research project and directly linking this with a major design and make project. Modules will include Personal Project: Written, and Personal Project: Design and Make.
Industry-linked (professional): Developing links with industry and supporting them to build business and enterprise skills relevant to furniture designer makers. Modules will include Professional Develo…
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The programme provides a work-related Honours top-up progression
route from the current Foundation Degree in Furniture Design and
Make. The programme will consist of two key elements focussing on
independent and industry-linked projects.
Independent (personal): Establishing a self-initiated brief through
a significant written research project and directly linking this
with a major design and make project. Modules will include Personal
Project: Written, and Personal Project: Design and Make.
Industry-linked (professional): Developing links with industry and
supporting them to build business and enterprise skills relevant to
furniture designer makers. Modules will include Professional
Development and Professional Design and Make (an industry linked
‘live’ project).
Upon successful completion you will be awarded a BA (Hons) in
Furniture: Design and Make from Buckinghamshire New University.
Please note that as programmes are reviewed regularly, the
module list may vary from that shown here:
Modules:
• Professional Design and Make – 30 Credits
• Professional Development – 30 Credits
• Personal Project (Written) – 30 Credits
• Personal Project (Design and Make) – 30 Credits
TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Projects are the principal vehicle for teaching and learning;
comprising the presentation of a creative problem, resolved as a
result of information delivered by lecture, seminar, personal and
group tutorial, practical demonstration and workshop guidance.
Learning is further developed through formative critiques designed
to promote critical but supportive discussion and feedback on
individual project work. Group tutorials give students the
opportunity to share learning experiences with their peers and to
encourage them to evaluate themselves and their peers.
RESOURCES
Students will be provided with a suitably equipped place to work
when attending College that will include access to specialist
staff, dedicated IT facilities/software and other learning
resources which will be appropriate for the nature of work students
will be required to undertake. Each student will be allocated their
own work bench and space in the HE workshop and access to dedicated
space within the design studio. Key resources available
include;
• Dedicated workshop space and work bench
• Large wood machine workshop with dedicated technician support
• Wood veneering/laminating/wood bending workshop
• Wood finishing workshop
• Design studio with dedicated IT suite
• Wood and tool store
• Learning resource centre (with excellent furniture section)
Access to other OCVC workshops including metal fabrication,
composites centre, jewellery/silversmithing and ceramics is
possible by appointment through the course leader. Access to Bucks
New University workshops and facilities including upholstery,
metalwork and CNC is also possible by prior agreement with the
Course Leader and Link Tutor.
Additional support in upholstery and CNC is regularly provided by
our industry partners whilst furniture fixings are sponsored
through a partnership with Hafele.
STUDY SUPPORT
If you do not have a recognised disability or specific learning
difficulty, but feel that you require additional support with your
studies, you may be eligible to access some discrete sessions in
one of the following areas:
• Assistive software training
• IT upskilling
• Essay planning and structure
• Proof reading and editing written work
• Bibliographies and referencing
• Time management and personal organisation
• Revision and exam tips
• Presentation techniques
N.B. Your eligibility for any of the above support will be reviewed
with your course tutors and a member of the study support team on
your campus.
The main aim of the programme is to develop graduates who are
highly competent individuals with proficient knowledge in the
discipline and professional skills for a career in furniture
designing and making.
The Rycotewood Furniture Centre at City of Oxford College has been
actively engaged in the training and education of students entering
the furniture industry for more than 70 years, with successful
delivery of higher education for over twenty years. In this time it
has actively engaged with employers with respect to placement,
bespoke training and in seeking external advice in the design of
its programmes. It has established a reputation beyond its local
roots and enjoys a position of national pre-eminence in the field,
located in Oxford and close to the UK’s traditional
furniture-making industry of High Wycombe.
ASSESSMENT METHODS
Students will be asked to participate in formative assessment
procedures which require them to consider their own work against
the agreed assessment criteria. This allows them to reflect upon
their own practice, with tutors, and to take responsibility for
acknowledging areas of strength and areas for further development
in their work. All assessment is coursework or project-based.
The majority of students will have usually completed a Level 5
qualification in a related subject, i.e. HND, FdA prior to
application. It is anticipated that further applicants will be
limited to a few exceptional cases. We would welcome applications
from mature students with design or woodworking experience who may
not have formal qualifications.
Selection will be by interview with a portfolio, or other evidence
of ability to succeed in the subject.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Applicants whose first language is not English must also
demonstrate that their level of English is acceptable, by achieving
a score in a recognised test such as:
• an IELTS score of 6 overall
On successful completion of the BA (Hons) Furniture Design and Make there are opportunities for progression to postgraduate study within the National School of Furniture at Bucks New University; several students have progressed to the MA Art and Design practice (leading to an award in MA Furniture). There is also the possibility of progression to other postgraduate courses, such as the MA RCA.
Part-time students should apply through the College. You can
apply online using the APPLY NOW button below.
FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
Students will have the opportunity to present design proposals and
practical outcomes for formative and summative assessments.
Formative assessment and feedback occurs formally and informally
during every project. It could take place informally during
individual and group tutorials or formally at set times including
submission of a written project first draft or presentation of
design concepts. The feedback is part of an essential dialogue
between tutor and student about their progress indicating clearly
opportunities to improve.
Summative assessment occurs at the completion of each individual
component of coursework. This involves the scrutiny of all
completed project work submitted. The assessment criteria applied
are clearly stated on the assignment briefs and in the programme
handbook. Tutors will be looking for evidence that students have
met the learning outcomes of the assignment and carried out all the
elements of the required submission. It is on the basis of this
summative assessment that a final grading is made for any module.
Written feedback will be provided against each of the assessment
criteria with clear links back to the learning outcomes for each
module.
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