Fashion Jewellery University of the Arts London (UAL)

Overview

• Introduction 

BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery is an idea-led design course that uses fashion jewellery as a medium for students to find their voice and develop their vision. We support you to become an informed and inspirational fashion jewellery designer who can innovate and challenge industry through a unique approach to your practice. 

We teach a wide range of approaches to manufacture that includes traditional and new technologies as well as digital approaches. Design thinking, cultural and contextual awareness and professional communication and presentation skills support you to become a designer who is able to respond to the demands and challenges of our times.

We offer an experiential and transformative curriculum that is grounded in dialogue and uses jewellery as a medium to express ideas. We place value on the cultural capital and lived experience of our students and we support our students to develop their unique design identity. We teach transferrable skills that are of value in the wider creative industry.

What to expect 

• Students will take part in Design and Studio sessions where they will be introduced to different design methodologies and to research and development processes. This supports students in developing methods that work for them.  
• Technical and Digital Core Skills classes from a dedicated technical team support students to materialise ideas into jewellery pieces. 
• Outside of taught sessions students are expected to make the most of supervised studio time in workshops, IT facilities and the libraries. 
• Students will learn from experts in the field as the academic team is made up of active practicioners and researchers who work at the forefront of their disciplines. This includes jewellery and sustainable practices and digital approaches to jewellery and ensures that the curriculum evolves in line with relevant and current industry developments. 
• Situated in the wider creative and fashion industry you can expect involvement from a range of external industry guests through lectures and workshops.
• We encourage and support students with internal and external competitions as well as progression to MA level study.
• Several units on the course allow students to choose a direction which best suits their interests, personal development and career goals so students can tailor their studies to their needs. 
• Critical thinking and cultural and contextual awareness are supported by the academic team and the Fashion Cultures and Histories Research Centre enabling students to appreciate the bigger narrative of the subject area and the impact of their practice.