Interaction Design University of the Arts London (UAL)

Overview

The Interaction Design course from the University of the Arts London (UAL) provides an opportunity for experimental and interdisciplinary practice. You'll  explore contemporary issues around digital and networked technologies and their intersection with the anthropocene, climate crisis, and social and economic inequality.

What to expect?

• Creative, and experimental practice: Using new technologies, you’ll engage and provoke audiences through contemporary issues such as digital privacy, the Climate Crisis, and social and economic inequality.

• Innovation: We define interaction design as the practice of making objects, spaces, and experiences that instigate new relations with humans, environments, and the systems revolving around them. Through this, we find new ways to provoke imagination, discussion, and critique.

• Critical thinking: the integrated approach to critical thinking will enable you to work with critical ideas in an applied design context while encouraging you to develop your own voice as a critical practitioner.

• Practical skills: You’ll develop skills in interaction design, physical computing, creative coding, and other new and traditional media forms. You’ll also build research skills in areas such as critical design, post-human centred design, feminist and decolonial theory, speculative design, and critical data studies. You’ll combine these methodologies and ideas into new and unique forms of practice.

Careers

Graduates of the course are equipped to work in an increasingly technologically informed and interdisciplinary design world with real skills in areas such as: interactive art and design, foresight and futures, interdisciplinary studio practice, though leadership, and digital arts.

A high number of the graduates continue to PhD research and become BA and MA lecturers, shaping the future of their field.  Graduates are often awarded funded opportunities to exhibit their work around the world with work produced on this course.

Roles and destinations of recent graduates include:

• Mat Denney – Artist and Lecturer in Emergent Technologies, London College of Communication

• Eleni Xynologa – Interaction Designer, Red Design Consultants

• Mariana Marangoni – Artist and Lecturer in Computational Arts, London College of Communication

• Shuo Wang – Game Interaction Designer, ByteDance

• Rania Svoronou - Lead visual interaction design, IBM iX

• Qingyi Ren – PhD Researcher in Digital Technology and Gender, University of Linz

• Anqi Wang – PhD Researcher in Machine Learning, Aalto University

• Simona Ciocoiu - Interaction Designer, ICRI (Intel)

• Masatato Seki - Creative Technologist, The Neighbourhood

• Elliott Hall – Creative Technologist and Support Technician, London College of Fashion