Course Content
As a student on this programme, you will be given an opportunity to develop your own research agenda and cultivate personal research interests through a series of themed modules. Modules may include the following:
Semester 1
- Research Methods (Chair: Martin McCabe, GradCAM)
- Design and Material Cultures (Dr Lisa Godson)
- Design and the luxury markets in France, c. 1750-1789 (Dr Macushla Baudis)
- Uncovering the everyday: shopping and consumption in eighteenth-century Ireland (Anna Moran)
- Approaches to domestic space in the Georgian era (Dr Conor Lucey, UCD)
- Space, place and identity in nineteenth-century Ireland (Chair: Anna Moran)
- Living with the past? Taste, display and decoration in the nineteenth-century home (Anna Moran)
- Spatial Cultures (Chair: Declan Long, NCAD)
Semester 2
- Dress, meaning and identity (Hilary O’Kelly, NCAD)
- Dress and Material Culture (Hilary O’Kelly, NCAD)
- Archival narratives: hands-on workshops on the use of archives in qualitative and quantitative research (Dr Una Walker)
- The Reinvention of Identity: State and commercial visual communication in twentieth-century Ireland (Dr Ciarán Swan)
- Design and Modernism (Dr Lisa Godson, NCAD)
- DesignedArt: Converging Fields and Critical Responses in Contemporary Practice (Emma Mahony, NCAD)
In addition, lectures are delivered by guest speakers, including Sarah Foster (Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork), Mary Ann Bolger (DIT), Dr Alison Fitzgerald (NUIM), Alex Ward (National Museum of Ireland) and Audrey Whitty (National Museum of Ireland).
Major Research Project
An opportunity for each student to develop a self-set project examining themes and questions and engaging particular personal interests in aspects of design and material culture.
