Making and Material Science Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

BA (Hons) Making & Material Science is a hands-on, studio-based degree that combines creative making with technical experimentation, material exploration, and applied design thinking. The course is designed for students who enjoy designing, building, testing, and understanding how things are made, while exploring the relationship between materials, technology, sustainability, and contemporary creative practice.

You’ll work across workshops, studios, and digital fabrication environments, developing practical and conceptual skills through experimentation with materials, processes, and emerging technologies. Alongside traditional making techniques, you’ll explore areas such as prototyping, fabrication, digital production methods, material testing, and creative applications of technology.

The course encourages interdisciplinary thinking and problem-solving, helping you develop the confidence to move between creative and technical approaches to making. You’ll learn through studio projects, workshops, critiques, collaborative activities, and public-facing outcomes, while building an understanding of the environmental, social, and professional contexts shaping contemporary design and production.

Making & Material Science positions making as both a creative and applied practice. You’ll develop the ability to combine material understanding, technical knowledge, and critical thinking to realise innovative and purposeful outcomes.

Graduates may progress into careers across design, fabrication, creative production, materials innovation, technical making, and broader creative industries, or continue into postgraduate study and independent practice.