Creative Computing MSc

This unit launches your master’s study experience at Norwich, encouraging you to explore leading practices and emerging research in creative computing, enhancing your ability to design and produce innovative computational workflows. Through discovery-based learning, you will develop a deep understanding of computational technologies and their applications in technical, conceptual, and cultural contexts. The integration of theory and practice aims to enhance your creative agency and technical fluency, equipping you for careers in computational practice, the creative industries, or digital technology. This unit encourages an expanded approach to creative thinking, examining broader systems and the interconnected boundaries of creative computing with other fields. Key topics include computational languages, algorithms, coding, software development, user experience, data visualisation, speculative design, machine intelligence, and emerging technologies such as AR/VR and AI. This hands-on approach encourages innovative thinking and practical application, preparing you to tackle real-world challenges in the creative industries.

This unit focuses on developing advanced technical skills necessary for developing computational practices. Through individual and group projects, you will engage with a wide range of media and processes, integrating digital and analogue techniques to solve theoretical and conceptual challenges. The unit covers software development, physical computing, AI and machine learning, programming languages like Python and JavaScript, and tools such as Unity. You will explore innovative approaches to expand your problem-solving capabilities. This hands-on experience aims to enhance your practical skills and broaden your working methods, preparing you for working with contemporary and emerging media platforms.

This unit explores leading practices and emerging research within creative technology, emphasising critical frameworks in socio-economic, political, ethical, and cultural contexts. Through reflective analysis and interactive sessions, exploring themes like machine learning theory, games theory, human-computer interaction, semiotics, Gestalt psychology, globalisation, and consumption. The unit aims to enhance your capacity for complex critique and culturally aware, ethically engaged practice, utilising discursive interaction to inform your inquiry methods. A research-led approach will help you explore the boundaries between creative technology disciplines, positioning you as a critically engaged practitioner ready to contribute to contemporary and cultural debates.

This unit encourages your exploration of a range of professional-level technical skills essential for innovative creative computing practice. Building on the ‘advanced technical skills’ unit, it focuses on experimentation across a range of media, advancing your personal and practical skills. Through individual and group projects, you will refine computing processes, exploring innovative solutions that expand your problem-solving abilities and creative thinking. Unit briefs focus on creating effective solutions for contemporary and emerging media platforms, supported by practice-based research projects. The unit covers software practices, physical computing, algorithmic design, and emerging technologies like AR/VR/AI, promoting an expanded approach to contemporary creative computing. Focusing on contemporary techniques, you will blend theoretical concepts with technical skills, enabling you to create innovative and complex outcomes, essential for advancing in the dynamic creative technology industry.

This unit is designed to enhance your knowledge of leading practices and emerging research in creative technology. By developing effective research and reflective strategies, you will enhance your critical understanding of key methodologies and gain insights into creative thinking within socio-economic, political, ethical, and cultural contexts. Building on the ‘dialogue, debate, and domain knowledge’ unit, you will explore themes like machine learning theory, games theory, human-computer interaction, semiotics, Gestalt psychology, and globalisation. You will develop questions aligned with your practice able to contribute to broader knowledge debates. Research-led projects will support your critical and reflective analysis enhancing your ability to synthesise conceptual and practical problem-solving and expand social and ethical dialogues in relation to computational technologies.

This unit represents the culmination of your master’s study, integrating everything you’ve learned on your studies. You will identify a research question, plan a project to test hypotheses, and work towards innovative outcomes, which may involve multiple outputs or a focused exploration of one aspect of your practice, supported by feedback from tutors and industry professionals. This unit encourages exploring creative coding, computational thinking, modelling, and machine learning, while examining the historical, theoretical, cultural, technical, and economic contexts of your discipline to deliver a project that makes an innovative contribution to the creative technologies sector. This project will enable you to reflect on your practice, demonstrate your creativity and technical skills, and support your professional practice as an ethically minded, astute professional who can synthesise experiments and ideas into complex creative outcomes.