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MDes in Design Innovation and Interaction Design

Subject Ranking

# 13QS Subject Rankings

Program Duration

12 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

Art and DesignMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Art and Design

Degree

Other

Study Level

Masters

The Master of Design (M.Des) in Design Innovation programme provides an academic framework for postgraduate students to engage with the craft of user-led and co-created innovation in design practice across a variety of fields and in widely differentiated social, economic, technological and industrial contexts. The programme responds to the changed context within which design practice occurs in the 21st century, a context within which the discipline-based skills of the product designer, ceramist, visual communicator or textile designer must sit alongside the working practices and expertise of a professionally-diverse and often globally-dispersed workforce. The programme seeks to develop design practitioners, graduates and professionals who are capable of operating in contemporary collaborative working environments, utilising the skills and knowledge of others and responding in a reflective and sympathetic manner to the demands, constraints and opportunities afforded by the context within which design practice occurs. Candidates on the Design Innovation programmes (suite of named awards) will become trans-disciplinary practitioners who can respond to both the demands of local communities and those of multi-national corporations, to technology driven change and the socio-economic aspirations of diverse stakeholders, as they seek to innovate the artefacts, services and experiences that constitute the experience of modern life.

Program overview

Main Subject

Art and Design

Degree

Other

Study Level

Masters

The Master of Design (M.Des) in Design Innovation programme provides an academic framework for postgraduate students to engage with the craft of user-led and co-created innovation in design practice across a variety of fields and in widely differentiated social, economic, technological and industrial contexts. The programme responds to the changed context within which design practice occurs in the 21st century, a context within which the discipline-based skills of the product designer, ceramist, visual communicator or textile designer must sit alongside the working practices and expertise of a professionally-diverse and often globally-dispersed workforce. The programme seeks to develop design practitioners, graduates and professionals who are capable of operating in contemporary collaborative working environments, utilising the skills and knowledge of others and responding in a reflective and sympathetic manner to the demands, constraints and opportunities afforded by the context within which design practice occurs. Candidates on the Design Innovation programmes (suite of named awards) will become trans-disciplinary practitioners who can respond to both the demands of local communities and those of multi-national corporations, to technology driven change and the socio-economic aspirations of diverse stakeholders, as they seek to innovate the artefacts, services and experiences that constitute the experience of modern life.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate

6+

Tuition fee and scholarships

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Founded in 1845, The Glasgow School of Art is one of the few remaining independent art schools in the UK. With a proven history of producing some of the world’s most influential and successful artists, designers and architects, the GSA’s studio-based specialist, practice-led education draws talented individuals with a shared passion and concern for visual culture from all over the world. Many graduates have chosen to stay in Glasgow so that today the city is home to one of the UK’s largest and most vibrant creative communities. 


Undergraduate students work within the School of Fine Art, the School of Design or the Mackintosh School of Architecture. We offer undergraduate degree programmes in Architecture, Communication Design, Digital Culture, Fashion Design, Fine Art Photography, Interior Design, Painting & Printmaking, Product Design, Product Design Engineering, Sculpture & Environmental Art, Silversmithing & Jewellery and Textile Design.

Founded in 1845, The Glasgow School of Art is one of the few remaining independent art schools in the UK. With a proven history of producing some of the world’s most influential and successful artists, designers and architects, the GSA’s studio-based specialist, practice-led education draws talented individuals with a shared passion and concern for visual culture from all over the world. Many graduates have chosen to stay in Glasgow so that today the city is home to one of the UK’s largest and most vibrant creative communities. 

 

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