IOCT Masters
Are you:
- A technologist with a creative dimension?
- A designer with programming skills?
- An artist working with technologies?
The IOCT Masters in Creative Technologies is a unique creative technologies programme. The course has been carefully designed to support you in developing and strengthening your individual creative technologies practice within the context of the increasingly multi/inter/trans disciplinary environments and collaborative digital world. You'll be part of a diverse and stimulating creative community, based around the purpose-built Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University. This groundbreaking cross-discipline approach pioneered by the IOCT has been described by Jerry Fishenden, National Technology Officer of Microsoft UK, as "a potential blueprint for the next generation of R&D" commenting, "This commitment to bringing together disciplines in new and exciting ways will help develop the UK's reputation as a leader in the creative industries."
The Masters programme will bring together eScience, the Digital Arts and Design and Humanities in a way that will cross traditional disciplines and boundaries, encouraging innovation and developing new modes of collaboration in eScience and digital arts research. The course is broad in range and flexible in structure and is designed to appeal to applicants who wish to study at higher degree level and is equally suitable for those wishing to take Masters as a qualification in itself as well as those thinking of moving on to doctoral research. The course consists of a range of modules across the subject areas of eScience, Technology, Digital Arts and Design and Humanities as well as research training relating to creative technologies research practice provided in the form of the compulsory Research Methods modules. Students also complete a Major Project, the focus of which is chosen by the student in negotiation with tutors. Projects in the past have included design and construction of multi-touch surfaces, interactive games design, augmented reality exhibition displays, product design, web design, e-learning packages and digital art exhibitions. Projects may also be selected from a range of commercial briefs, working with local organisations.
The course will encourage reflection on creative technologies in the twenty-first century giving you a critical, cultural and contextual understanding of the area as well as practical expertise through offering a range of project-based modules.
Course Philosophy
We cannot know how the world will be in thirty years from now. The world we inhabit today has changed immeasurably since that of the 1970s. Technological innovations have enabled collaboration and cooperation, communication and access to knowledge, and a radical reappraisal of creativity, in a way that was not foreseen. The IOCT Masters student will be uniquely equipped for this future world, by gaining an insight into a range of methods and practices, research and development, knowledge and understanding, uniquely drawn from a number of Faculties in De Montfort University.
It is our contention that this area 'between' traditional disciplines will grow, and that the modern Masters student needs a portfolio of skills and knowledge to become employable in the future. We hope that the IOCT Masters in Creative Technologies will provide such a portfolio.
For further information or to be kept informed about the IOCT Masters, please contact:Dr Sophy Smith
Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH
Tel: (+44) 0116 255 1551, ext. 6864
Email: SSmith05 [at] dmu.ac.uk