Stamps MDes in Integrative Design - 2016

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Table of Contents 3 Who We Are

7 Our Partners

15 Stamps Visiting Designers

4 What We Do:

8 Our Resources

17 Ann Arbor by the Numbers

9 Our Outcomes

19 Program Elements

Design Research, Applied

5 Our Method: STEEPV 6 Our Approach:

Real-World Collaboration Through Integrative Design

10 The MDes Cohort 11 Stamps Faculty

21 Financial Support 22 Apply & Stay Connected

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Peter Jones, author of Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience and Associate Professor, OCAD University

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What We Do: Design Research, Applied Healthcare. Global Warming. Terrorism.

Food Justice. Poverty. The 21st Century is rife with multi-causal, socio-culturally complex issues where a true-or-false rationale is disingenuous, unproductive, and even detrimental.

T H E S E I S S U E S A R E K N O W N A S “ W I C K E D P R O B L E M S .”

Applied

as a verb, design can help us deconstruct and respond to the most challenging “wicked problems” of our time.

T H R O U G H D E E P C O L L A B O R AT I O N W I T H O U R C O N S T I T U E N T S ,

stakeholders, and partners from the corporate and non-profit sectors, integrative designers in the Stamps MDes program address wicked problems through hands-on, real-world projects. With its projectbased curriculum, the Stamps MDes program erases traditional boundaries between design research and design practice to create a new process-oriented curriculum.

2 0 1 7 C O H O R T F O C U S : A P P R O P R I AT E C A R E

Providing the right treatments at the right times is critical to quality healthcare. In tandem with excellent service, appropriate care plans pave the way for successful outcomes for the patient and the nation at large. Major questions for the 2017 cohort will be: how do we leverage evidence-based practices to provide efficient, quality patient care? What measures can we introduce to ensure patient preferences are respected while administering safe, timely, and effective care?

How can we eradicate disparities in healthcare to deliver exemplary treatment, regardless of patient gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status?

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Our Method: STEEPV Integrative design starts with deep inquiry and research. MDes candidates examine wicked problems using a methodological framework called STEEPV, interrogating the Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, and Valuesbased issues surrounding the challenge at hand.

STEEPV

is an effective, human-centered methodology for addressing the complex,

provocative issues of our world — and its applications are endless.

STEEPV Healthcare Snapshot

Social

Technical

Approximately 35 percent (64 million) of working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.

Preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America behind heart disease and cancer.

Source: Jour nal o f Patient Saf ety

Sou rce: The Com monwe al th Fund

Economic

Environmental

Political

The average cost of a prescription in 1975 was $5. The average cost of a prescription in 2015 is $400.

Pharmaceutical waste can be found in trace amounts in soil and groundwater throughout the world.

By 2085, U.S. spending on medical care will be 100 percent of tax revenues, and medicalrelated debt will outstrip GDP.

Source: Stephen Sc hondel meyer,

Sou rce: He a l th ier Hospital In itiative

Source: M ic hael O ’Don nel l ,

Universi ty o f Minnesota

Un iversity o f M ic h igan He al th

College o f P ha r mac y

M a nagement Rese a rc h Center

Values-based We believe that individuals deserve healthcare that is reflective and respectful of their personal values. Patients deserve to be listened to, involved in their care plans, and treated as experts of their own experiences.

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Our Approach: Real-World Collaboration Through Integrative Design

It’s exciting to see MDes students go through a real-life situation. This isn’t something

Over the course of the two-year graduate program, each MDes cohort forms a pro-bono integrative design firm of sorts, collaborating as a team on hands-on projects alongside real-world stakeholders, constituents, and partners.

simply done out of a textbook.”

PA S T P R OJ E C T PA R T N E R S I N C LU D E

Bob Lync h, Director of Advanced

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare

Development, Stryker

System, Guardian Industries Corp, and others.

the Kellogg Eye Center,

Our Approach: Integrative Design → Integrative Design is a universal joint. Centered in research and working hand-in-hand with stakeholders, partners, and constituents, Integrative Design is not locked into one disciplinary design strategy. Instead, we are adaptive, utilizing multiple tactics as the project or problem requires.

Other Programs:

Multidisciplinary

OR

Interdisciplinary

OR

Transdisciplinary

→ Multidisciplinarity is a button and

→ Interdisciplinarity is a zipper. There

→ Transdisciplinarity is Velcro®. It

a buttonhole. There are two distinct

are two distinct things, two facing

consists of two distinct layers that are

things that when brought together

rows of teeth that are pulled into

useless without the other. Without the

create a third effect — holding

relation by a third thing — the slider.

other side, each makes no sense on

together. There is a dominant partner

This slider could be a common value

its own. The totality is a new thing in

— we usually talk about buttons and

or goal that temporarily holds the

itself. Velcro can attach at any point.

overlook the holes.

stakeholders together.

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MDes U-M 2015-16

Partnerships Healthcare:

University of Michigan:

→ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

→ College of Pharmacy

→ VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

→ Medical School:

→ C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

→ Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

→ Center for Innovation - Mayo Clinic

→ Neurology

→ University of Michigan

→ School of Social Work

→ Ross School of Business

W.K. Kellogg Eye Center

→ University of Michigan Health System

→ School of Information

→ University of Michigan Medical Group

→ Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

→ Patient and Family Centered Care,

Adult Services, University of Michigan

Health System and University Hospital

→ Peer & Family Support Program at

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

→ Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak → Beaumont Hospital, Troy → United Physicians, Inc. → St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor

→ School of Kinesiology → Health & Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board → Health Management Research Center → College of Literature, Science, and the Arts:

→ School of Public Health → College of Engineering:

→ Multidisciplinary Design Program

→ Center for Entrepreneurship

→ Biomedical Engineering

→ Mechanical Engineering

Industry:

→ Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety

→ Guardian Industries Corp.

→ Michigan Health Engineered for All Lives (M-HEAL)

→ Huron Valley Physicians Association → Integrated Healthcare Associates

→ Stryker → Steelcase Health

→ Michigan Pediatric Device Consortium

→ Pelico, LLC

→ University of Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education:

→ Bully Pulpit Games, LLC

International Universities: → Strategic Innovation Lab, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada → IxD Lab, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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→ Department of Psychology

→ School of Dentistry

→ School of Kinesiology

→ Medical School

→ School of Nursing

→ College of Pharmacy

→ School of Public Health

→ School of Social Work

→ Health Professions & Studies, Flint

→ Education, Health, & Human Services, Dearborn

U-M Resources You have Access to…

And Collaborate with…

world-class studios

engineers

radiology lab

filmmakers

state-of-the-art digital media labs

physicians

multi-camera HD video studios

climatologists

robotics institute

architects

virtual reality cave

astrophysicists

3D printers, routers, and scanners

nurses

physical computing studio

urban planners

materials library

healthcare researchers

computer and video game archive

design historians

nanotechnology institute

public policy makers

industrial knitting machines

journalists

map libraries

microbiologists

3 hospitals large-format printers 40 outpatient locations 24-ft astro-tec dome planetarium 7 U-M museums

nanotechnology researchers

MDes

anthropologists curators sound engineers social workers

artificial intelligence lab

chemists

motion capture facility

ecologists

MRI scanners museum of zoology collections anatomy labs professional audio recording studios

neuroscientists botanists information architects data analysts

botanical gardens

cancer researchers

entrepreneurship clinic

cognitive scientists

2 Stamps School galleries 150 clinics

industry professionals forensic scientists

billions of points of healthcare data

screenwriters

17 statewide quality collaboratives

entrepreneurs

1.7 million plants in the herbarium marine hydrodynamics lab and more…

public health experts 3D modeling experts and more…

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Our Outcomes Across industries, employers recognize the distinct benefits of deep collaboration with integrative designers to identify, envision, and co-create the systems-based products, services, and environments of the 21st Century.

S TA M P S M D E S G R A D U AT E S

will possess a unique set of cross-

disciplinary skills and demonstrable evidence of those skills in action, creating true professional distinction and meeting the growing employer demand for creative, nimble, strategic collaborators.

I realized that we really needed

We are interested in engaging

It was clear to me that the

to personalize the way we

with our patients on a deeper

ways we’d been looking at

deliver patient education.

level to better understand their

improving patient transitions

Currently, there is no standard

unique perspectives and goals

from hospital to home weren’t

for this. Through an intense

to align the healthcare services

really making things better for

research process, the MDes

we provide. The MDes cohort

patients or their families or

cohort has helped us move

hosted an innovative design

caregivers. The MDes cohort

towards productive patient

charrette which helped us

was able to uncover the issues

conversations that support

reframe the various dimensions

impacting this transition in

behavioral change and a

of patient experiences, and

new light which helped the

healthy self-care plan.”

suggested new approaches for

healthcare teams design

Paula An ne Newman -Casey, MD

us to explore to create improved

responses in a very systematic,

Assistant Professor in the Department

experiences for our patients.”

yet entirely empathetic way.”

Tom Kerr

La kshm i Ha lasyaman i , MD

Systems Redesign Coordinator

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center

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VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

The MDes Cohort The cohort is composed of professionals who wish to transform their careers through critical thinking, analysis, and an unflinching examination of complex, real-world problems.

HAND-PICKED

with an eye for diverse global perspectives and knowledge

from across the design disciplines and beyond, the MDes cohort is small in size, ensuring optimal collaboration in an environment where all members are seen, heard, and active.

The MDes Cohort come from a wide spectrum of backgrounds

research

design

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MDes

Faculty Advisors At Stamps, MDes students have access to the practice and expertise of some of the top voices in the field. Each MDes candidate is assigned a faculty advisor who serves as a mentor and a guide.

John Marshall Associate Professor MDes Program Director Jan-Henrik Andersen Associate Professor Sophia Brueckner Assistant Professor

Roland Graf Assistant Professor Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo Professor Sun Young Park Assistant Professor

Brad Smith Professor Hannah Smotrich Associate Professor Bruce Tharp Associate Professor

Stephanie Tharp Associate Professor Nick Tobier Associate Professor Joe Trumpey Associate Professor

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S TA M P S M D E S F A C U LT Y  

For more information about each faculty member

and examples of work visit: stamps.umich.edu/mdes-faculty

Faculty offer a broad spectrum of research and professional experiences, serving as the primary support for students in academic planning, advising and addressing challenges.

John Marshall

Jan-Henrik Andersen

Sophia Brueckner

▸ digital fabrication

▸ electro-mechanical durables design

▸ UX/interaction design

▸ tangible user interfaces

▸ health and wellbeing technology

▸ design methods

▸ product design

▸ problem-based learning

▸ visualizion of subatomic particles

▸ digital fabrication

▸ sustainable marine farming

▸ wearables

▸ 3D rapid prototyping

▸ design ethics

Roland Graf

Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo

Sun Young Park

▸ architecture

▸ publication design

▸ human computer interaction

▸ object design

▸ interface design

▸ human interface development

▸ exhibition design

▸ user experience design and design research

▸ interactive installation

▸ design research & scholarship

▸ cross-disciplinary design ▸ design research & scholarship

▸ generative systems

▸ computer-supported cooperative work ▸ health/medical informatics ▸ social computing

Brad Smith

Hannah Smotrich

Bruce Tharp

▸ anatomy & biomedical illustration

▸ publication design

▸ sociocultural anthropology

▸ environmental graphic design

▸ mechanical engineering

▸ community design collaborations

▸ commercial & speculative product design

▸ visual identity systems

▸ design entrepreneurship

Stephanie Tharp

Nick Tobier

Joe Trumpey

▸ design process

▸ landscape architecture

▸ ecological design

▸ interdisciplinary and team-based design

▸ public projects & actions

▸ permaculture design

▸ social entrepreneurship

▸ natural materials & building

▸ critical & speculative writing

▸ community-based design build

▸ visualization of cardiovascular development ▸ magnetic resonance imaging of embryos ▸ animation & design

▸ critical design practices ▸ design research

▸ industrial design

▸ constrained resource design

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MDes

Collaborative Studio →

Students conduct their creative work in a new collaborative space within a

THE MDES AREA HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO

support collaboration — it is flexible and reconfigurable, with spaces and tools for both group and individual work, as well as a broad range of prototyping processes.

33,000 square-foot facility that also houses faculty

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Graduate students also have 24/7 access to large state-of-the-art metals, fibers, ceramics,

studios, a multi-purpose

sculpture, wood, print, digital media, and digital

shop, digital media equipment,

only available at a top research university,

fabrication studios, as well as a range of resources

and large shared working

such as audio engineering booths, robotic labs,

and meeting spaces.

institutes and collections, and much more.

virtual reality studios, specialized libraries,

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Stamps Visiting Designers

During the academic year, students have direct access to a wide array of creative innovators who are part of the Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and the Witt Visitors Program. Visitors meet with graduate students for group or individual discussions.

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PA S T V I S I T O R S H AV E I N C L U D E D :

CEO of IDEO Tim Brown Information Designer Richard Saul Wurman Architect and Designer Michael Graves Information Architect Lisa Strausfeld Designer & Activist Emily Pilloton Graphic Designer Paula Scher Architect and Designer Bjarke Ingels Droog Design Co-founder Gijs Bakker Interaction Designer Massimo Banzi Graphic Designer Stefan Sagmeister IBM Design Manager Phil Gilbert Graphic Designer Ellen Lupton Droog Design Co-founder Renny Ramakers Product Designer & Architect Patricia Urquiola

Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, MOMA

Design Agency Project Projects NASA Visual Strategist Dan Goods

Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)

Temple Grandin, Author and Designer 16

Ann Arbor by the Numbers

“Times Higher Education World Rankings” T I M E S H I G H E R E D U C AT I O N • 2 0 1 5

#13

#7

“Best Cities for Millennials”

“Best Cities for College Grads”

FORBES • 2015

L I VA B I L I T Y • 2 0 1 4

#4

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“Most Creative Cities”

“Most Walkable Cities”

T H E D A I LY B E A S T • 2 0 1 2

GOVE R N I NG .COM • 2013

#1

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“The 10 Most Intelligent College Towns in America”

“Best Cities for Well-Being”

ZOOMTE NS.COM • 2014

U S A T O D AY A N D G A L L U P • 2 0 1 4

#5

#1

“Happiest Cities in America”

“Most Educated Cities”

T H E D A I LY B E A S T • 2 0 1 2

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#17

FORBES.COM • 2014

#2

#9

“Best Cities for New Grads”

“Least Stressed Cities in America”

KIPLINGE R • 2013

AOL .COM • 2015

#13

#11

“Top 100 Best Cities to Live”

“Safest Michigan Cities”

L I V A B I L I T Y. C O M • 2 0 1 4

MLIVE • 2015

#4 “Best College Towns for Food and Drink” TH RILLIST • 2015

Ann Arbor and Beyond A N N A R B O R I S C O N S I S T E N T LY R A N K E D

one of America’s best college towns, offering a rich cultural and intellectual life and a vibrant sense of community.

#1 “Most desirable city to live and work for millenials”

Students also benefit from the urban energy and collaborative opportunities of a creative corridor extending from Toronto, through Detroit, to Chicago.

Learn more at V I S I TA N N A R B O R . O R G .

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH • 2015

#7

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“Best Cities for College Grads”

“Most E-Literate Cities in America”

L I VA B I L I T Y • 2 0 1 4

T H E AT L A N T I C . C O M • 2 0 1 2

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The Stamps Master of Design

(MDes) in Integrative Design FIRST SEMESTER

Design Studio 1 Inquiry

6 (4+2)

Research Methods

3

Design Seminar 1 Integration

3

University Elective

3

Total credits

→

DESIGN STUDIO 1

15

SECON D SE M ESTE R

SUMMER

Design Studio 2

Fieldwork Studio

Prototyping

6 (4+2)

6 (4+2)

Design Seminar 2 Design for 21st Century

3

University Elective

3

University Elective

3

Total credits

is focused on Inquiry.

What is known? What is not known?

15

Total credits

→ centers on Prototyping. It’s about taking what IN SECOND SEMESTER, DESIGN STUDIO 2

Who do we know? Where is the opportunity?

we’ve learned from the first semester and

The cohort will be exploring the territory and

trying to deploy it. We want to capture some

looking for open areas where contributions

information and data about how our ideas

can be made.

operate in the world. What works well?

What needs to be fixed? This is backed up by

That effort is supported by the Research

Design for the 21st Century, a design seminar

Methods and the Integration Design Seminars

that explores this new program in Integrative

that delve into the resources of the University

Design and how it operates in the world.

and beyond. How do other researchers

How is it different? And why?

go about doing their work? What can we contribute to that? What are we integrating?

How are we going to integrate it?

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The MDes curriculum includes both design education and engagement

source of support to candidates in planning

training. Within the structure of the umbrella

their academic program, seeking advice, and

topic, the first year is focused on identifying the

dealing with challenges as they arise. Credits

problems and the second year on addressing

for studio work are split between collaborative

them. Stamps MDes faculty are the primary

work and individual development.

THIRD SEMESTER

FOURTH SEMESTER

Design Studio 3

Thesis Project

Co-creation

6 (4+2)

Thesis Prep

CREDIT BREAKDOWN

First -Third Semesters 9 (6+3)

4 credits – collaborative work overseen by studio leader 2 credits – individual development within the collective activities, overseen by primary advisor

3

Fourth Semester Design Seminar 3 Professional Practice

University Elective

3

3

6 credits – overseen by primary advisor 3 credits – overseen by studio lead

Total credits

→

Total credits

12

THE SUMMER FIELDWORK STUDIO

12

60 credits total

This is backed up by Thesis Prep, which focuses

takes the

things that we’ve learned and the ideas that

on the research and methodologies that are

we’re exploring and moves them into different

necessary to undertake the project.

contexts. For example, we might start our summer as part of a collaborative pop-up studio

Professional Practice looks toward the future,

with another university design graduate cohort,

when you’ll have your Masters of Integrative

then move to working in a corporate context,

Design. How do you make a case for having such a

and then to working in a small consultancy.

unique qualification? What are the opportunities?

It’s all about integrative design — trying out

What will the ladder be post-graduation?

different models in different contexts.

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THIRD SEMESTER

is the ramp-up towards

→

FOURTH SEMESTER

is primarily your Thesis

Project. You’ll work together with the MDes

the thesis. The Co-creation Studio focuses on

cohort, with faculty, and with your networks to

finding your constituents, your stakeholders,

define, refine, and present your thesis to the world.

and your partners; beginning the process of getting buy-in on the identified opportunity; and actually beginning to build a project.

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Generous Financial Support The Stamps School offers generous financial support for all MDes students in addition to teaching, staff, and research assistantships and stipends to offset project expenses.

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→ Apply Now

stamps.umich.edu/mdes-apply

MDes Program Attributes:

Successful applicants will be:

→ substantial experience in integrative design methods and practices

→ career changers proficient in specialized, complementary skills they would like to incorporate into an integrative approach.

→ involvement with real-world clients and stakeholders → access to hundreds of experts and professionals from across the U-M campus → project-based learning

→ experienced designers wishing to transform their career path or professionals in other fields who want to transition to a designengaged practice

→ skill building in research-led design and design-led research methodologies

→ prepared to revise and expand their understanding of research, design methods, and design practices

→ collaborative studio in the Faculty/Graduate Student Studio Building

→ interested in a collaborative, design-centered approach to solving complex problems

→ access to the facilities and resources of a top-tier research university → generous financial support

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Editor

Art Direction & Design

John Marshall

Truly Render

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