Contemporary Creative Practices: Methods is a postgraduate course that examines major concepts in art, design and media practices in the 21st century. Students will become familiar with the most challenging experimental art design and media of recent past and the present. This course examines in depth two key themes across art, design and media art such as identity and difference, creative methodologies, and politics in order to critically discuss and historically contextualise creative practices.themselves in Post Modernity and its offshoots. Topics explored include the questioning of the boundaries between ‘high’ art and ‘popular culture’; between art, design and media; the importance of 'embodiment' in cultural practice; identity politics; and the re-imagining of the roles of artist, designer and media-maker.