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The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are one or a combination of the following qualifications:
Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your portfolio of work, personal statement and reference.
All classes are taught in English. If English isn't your first language you must provide evidence at enrolment of the following:
APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Related academic or work experience
The quality of the personal statement
A strong academic or other professional reference
A combination of these factors
Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
BA Product and Furniture Design puts making at the centre of design production. This ensures you develop your practical skills. You will combine these with a critical and investigative approach to objects.
To develop a flexible approach to materials and practice in a shifting landscape in order to develop an understanding of the agility and resilience required for the designer-maker approach to contemporary creative industries and audiences
To study people’s interaction with objects as well explore social science techniques to enable you to develop your work so that it might have practical, aesthetic or playful uses
To work with our heritage and museum sector partners to design objects and explore ethnographic studies of social conventions in the museum, heritage and experience design sector. Additionally, projects will consider curatorial, community, diversity and access issues
To develop an understanding of key ethical, critical, technical and theoretical debates in the area of product and furniture design
In year 1 you will have the opportunity to design and make furniture
In year 2 you will work in public places considering the use of local materials, contexts and social concerns to communicate a sense of place or to solve local issues
To develop a range of critical, creative, technical and professional skills relevant to employment in product design, furniture and related areas
To experiment with new and existing technologies and materials to develop successful products
To develop research and analysis skills that encourage both critical reflection, intellectual risk taking and the development of effective and appropriate communication methods
To develop experience and knowledge of collaborative co-creative methodologies to stimulate new partnerships with stakeholders, audiences and institutions both locally and globally
To have access to Chelsea's shared workshops. View the Chelsea facilities
You will have the opportunity to undertake work placements during the course. Previous organisations and designers have included The Natural History Museum, McCollin Bryan, Richard Fox, Studio Swine and Tatty Devine.
You will have the opportunity to study abroad in the second year of your degree as part of the college's Erasmus scheme.
BA Product and Furniture Design is offered in full-time mode. It is divided into 3 stages over 3 academic years. Each stage consists of 30 teaching weeks. You will be expected to commit an average of 40 hours per week to your course, including teaching hours and independent study.
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Graduating students will have an interdisciplinary approach to design. You will have gained critical and professional skills. These will enable you to work as studio based designer makers, project consultants, curators and commission-based designers. Our graduates have found jobs within a variety of fields. These include product design, craft production, interior design, architecture and fine art. Many others have also gone on to postgraduate study.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
