Academic: Teaching and Learning
I lead the postgraduate Design Management cluster of courses at University for the Creative Arts (UCA), which recently moved from Farnham to Epsom. These are: MA Design and Strategy, MA Innovation and Brand Management and MA Creative Enterprise. The courses are dedicated to furthering the theory and practice of design management through interdisciplinary working methods, and investigating how the underlying strategies, processes and relationships between design, innovation, branding and creative entrepreneurship contribute to good business.
The courses are continually developed to reflect key trends in design, society, business and culture. I use ‘Design Management’ as a core text. The book is also used as a key text in other modern design and management courses at design and business schools throughout the world.
Other associated activities on the courses:
In 2007, along with Martin Bouette and David Kirby, we made a succesful bid to the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group (HEEG) for the funding of a collaboration between UCA and the University of Surrey on ‘Promoting Creativity and Entrepreneurship through Professional Collaborations for Higher Education Students’. Held at Farnham Castle, this project enabled postgraduate students in engineering, science, management and the creative arts to connect with entrepreneurship and to promote and stimulate cross-disciplinary innovation.
In January 2008, staff and students from the Design Management Cluster at UCA traveled to France attend a one week Design Management ‘Winterschool’, held in collaboration with staff and students from the University of Salford (UK) and the University of Toulon (France). The 2009 Design Management Winterschool will be held in London; more on this later.
I’ve also previously taught on:
BA (Hons) Interior Design, University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham (formerly the Surrey Institute of Art and Design)
MA Computer Related Design (now MA Designing Interactions), Royal College of Art
MA Virtual Environments, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
MA Digital Architecture, Middlesex University
Foundation Course, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communications
And I’ve been a visiting lecturer with:
Masters in the Business of Design, Domus Academy, Milan
BA (Hons) Design Management, Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland
BA (Hons) Design Management, Parsons School of Design, New York
FDA, Graphic Design, LCC, University of the Arts London
MBA, University of California at Irvine
UCA DM Graduates, 2008
Professional Practice: Training Tools and Services
stuff here later…
