Master of Design

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 new Master of Design stream is a two-year online graduate degree that positions students for advanced research practice and industry-aligned skills in information design and systems design through a practice-based future-oriented lens. Students will join an international cohort of peers through dynamic synchronous and asynchronous virtual environments and activities punctuated by stimulating in-personhybrid intensives.Like our other MDes streams Information Futures highlights socially-engaged practice-based research with a focus on information and systems design relevant across a wide array of applications and work environments. Join Information Futures and push the boundaries of the field and the future of information design. The specialized curriculum allows students to develop robust skills while accessing various community-building and mentorship opportunities in a critical and expansive academic experience. They also gain best practice tools and skills for work in the virtual realm in alignment with current industry standards.Students develop thesis projects addressing themes touching on social cultural and environmental sectors policy and government work health and education editorial and communication design through approaches ranging from new critical and speculative methods to engaging with Indigenous-centered research practices.

If you are applying to the Master of Design or Master of Fine Arts degrees, you must hold a recognized Bachelor’s degree from an accredited academic institution.We accept applications from applicants who hold the following undergraduate degrees: Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Media Arts, Bachelor of Architecture.Applicants holding a Bachelor's degree in a field outside of art and design may also apply, but must demonstrate studio proficiency.Applicants holding a three-year Bachelor's degree may apply if it is equivalent to a four-year Canadian degree.Applicants must have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 (B).Applicants in the final year of their Bachelor’s degree may apply.