Advanced Home Futures MSc

Program Overview

The Advanced Home Futures MSc program at Teesside University explores innovative designs and construction principles for future housing, emphasizing sustainability, technology, and user experience. Through a multidisciplinary curriculum and immersive learning environment, graduates develop groundbreaking ideas and methods for designing future homes and spaces, preparing them for careers in home design, construction, and related fields.

Program Outline

Advanced Home Futures MSc Program Extraction:

Degree Overview:

• Program Focus: Explores innovative designs and construction principles for future housing, including emerging technology, sustainability, and user experience.
• Unique Feature: Adheres to George Clarke's MOBIE modular building concept and advanced home construction principles.
• Learning Outcomes: Graduates will be equipped to develop groundbreaking ideas and methods for designing future homes and spaces.
• Target Audience: Professionals in home design and construction, town and social housing planning and management.

Outline:

• Structure: Full-time, 1 year for September entry or 16 months for January entry.
Part-time, 2 years for September entry or 28 months for January entry.
• Curriculum: Multidisciplinary approach integrating design, technology, social sciences, and management.
• Core Modules:
• House and Home:
Examines the cultural, social, and economic aspects of houses and living spaces.
• Future Thinking Technologies: Explores digital technologies for enhancing the built environment.
• Future Houses: Analyzes trends shaping housing demand and designs sustainable solutions.
• Managing Innovation: Develops leadership and management skills for multidisciplinary project teams.
• Future Home Design Project: Team-based project focusing on a large-scale innovative building or home design challenge.

Assessment:

• Methods: Written reports, design artefacts, presentations, individual and group projects.
• Focus: Critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, innovation, and collaboration.

Teaching:

• Approach: Immersive learning environment with individual and group activities, informal lectures, inquiry-based learning, practical sessions, workshops, and studio work.
• Faculty: Experts from diverse fields including architecture, design, engineering, construction, and business.
• Unique Feature: Connection to industry professionals through local, national, and international building and architectural practices.

Careers:

• Opportunities: Home design, construction, project management, research, town and social housing planning and management.
• Graduate Attributes: Developed capabilities include design thinking, digital skills, communication, leadership, innovation, and project management.

Other:

• Location: Teesside University in Middlesbrough, UK.
• Fees:
• £7,365/year for full-time UK students, £17,000/year for international students.
• Part-time UK students pay £820 for each 20 credits.
• Entry Requirements: Minimum 2.2 honors degree or relevant professional experience.
• Partnerships: Creative UK membership for networking and professional development opportunities.

Tuition Fees and Payment Information:

Full-time

2024/25 entry Fee for UK applicants £7,365 a year Fee for international applicants £17,000 a year

Part-time

2024/25 entry Fee for UK applicants £820 for each 20 credits