Master of Design - Interdisciplinary

Our immersive Master of Design is for designers who aspire to create experiences and products that transform our local and global communities. Grounded in critical theory and material experimentation our program streams are actively engaged in the ecology ethics and politics of design. Our program streams are built on critical practice-based creative research. Throughout your time at Emily Carr faculty staff and peers will contribute to your professional development by mentoring challenging and supporting you.Your thesis project a creative product comprising both of innovation through media and written component will be fostered in-studio classes and research seminars by skilled and attentive faculty supervisors.Our MDes Interdisciplinary pathway is a two-year on-campus degree that centres creative research and material exploration. This degree takes a human-centered approach to design examining our communities social technological and experiential needs.You'll focus on conceptual and theoretical design issues through a practice-based and creative approach. With an emphasis on making you'll redefine sustainability and the role of design in our contemporary world. Students in this pathway engage in an interdisciplinary design practice through research seminars and studio classes. Alongside explorative coursework you'll engage with a variety of emergent and established design streams through independent thesis development on a topic of your choice.More wide-ranging and exploratory than the Interaction degree the Interdisciplinary pathway foregrounds playfulness and hands-on learning to examine how material choices relate to community sustainability and social progress. As an MDes Interdisciplinary student you'll have the chance to participate in generative public presentations and exhibitions and a series of lectures from renowned designers. With access to an expansive on-campus suite of studios labs and research facilities you will be immersed in innovative and formative play within a design field of your choice.