Stamps MDes in Integrative Design - 2017

MDes in Integrative Design

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What We Do: Design Research, Applied

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Our Method: STEEPV

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Our Approach: Real-World Collaboration Through Integrative Design

Our Outcomes

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Stamps Visiting Designers

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Career Placements

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Metro Detroit & Ann Arbor

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Professionally Networked

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Ann Arbor by the Numbers

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MDes Charrettes

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Curriculum

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The MDes Cohort

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2018 Cohort Focus: Equity and Access

Financial Support

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Successful applicants

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Apply & Stay Connected

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MDes Allies

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MDes Faculty Advisors

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U-M Resources

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MDes Collaborative Studio

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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, socioculturally complex issues where a true-or-false rationale is disingenuous, unproductive, and even detrimental.

THESE ISSUES

are known as “ 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.

collaborative

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

d ende en op

cross-disc ipli na ry

with our partners, stakeholders, and constituents from the corporate and non-profit sectors, integrative designers in the Stamps MDes program address wicked problems through hands-on, real-

MDes

world projects. With its project-based curriculum, the Stamps MDes program erases traditional boundaries between design research and design practice to create a new process-oriented curriculum.

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MDes at a Glance I N T H E F I R S T 2 Y E A R S O F T H E M D E S P R O G R A M T H E S T U D E N T S H AV E W O R K E D W I T H :

→ Hundreds of faculty, researchers, and healthcare professionals → Thirty-two University of Michigan Schools and Departments → Twenty-six hospitals and clinics, conducting over 500 hours of clinical observations. → 242 total workshop and charrette participants at the MDes studio 3

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, Ecological, Political, and Values-based 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 Equity and Access Snapshot

Social

Technical

Impoverished families exhibit more

If the 4.1 billion people without

chronic physiological stress, more

internet across the world were

deficits in short-term spatial memory,

given access, 500 million people

more feelings of helplessness and

could be brought out of poverty.

more antisocial conduct.

Source: Price Wa terhouse Co op er

Source: Gary Evans, PhD, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016

Economic

Ecological

Political

To afford a two-bedroom apartment

In 2013 lead exposure accounted

Minimum wage has not been raised

in the US, individuals must earn a

for 853,000 deaths due to long-

in the US since 2009, yet 2016

"Housing Wage" that is $13.96 higher

term effects on health, with

data indicates cost of living has

than the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

the highest burden in low- and

increased by nearly 12 percent.

Source: Na tiona l Low I ncome

middle-income countries.

Source: US Dep ar t ment o f Lab or

Housing Co a l ition

Sou rce: World He al th Organ ization

Values-based We believe that people deserve equitable access to the resources they need to live healthy, safe, and dignified lives. Communities as a whole thrive when all members are able to have fair and just access to quality education, food, and housing.

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Our Approach: Real-World Collaboration Through Integrative Design 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.

It’s exciting to see MDes students go through a real-life situation. This isn’t something simply done out of a textbook.”

Bob Lync h , Director of Advanced Development, Stryker

Our Approach: Integrative Design → Integrative Design is a universal joint. Centered in research and working hand-in-hand with partners, stakeholders, 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 Design Programs:

Multidisciplinary

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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.

2018 Cohort Focus: Equity and Access Equity is a state in which all people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and various other markers of social disadvantage, have fair and just access to the resources and opportunities necessary to thrive. Equity disparities often reflect reciprocal influences between biased or unfair policies, programs, practices, or situations that contribute to a lack of equality in expectations, circumstances, and quality of life. Improving equity begins with improving access.

Major questions for the 2018-20 cohorts will be: → How might we use integrative

→ How might we use integrative

→ How might we use integrative

design methods to intervene in

design methods to compensate

design methods to disrupt cycles

our education systems, food

for preexisting biases and

of low expectation that are

systems, and housing networks

prejudice in American society?

reinforced and perpetuated by

to address inequities?

social and cultural stereotypes?

Past project partners include → Kellogg Eye Center

→ Guardian Industries Corp

→ Lifebox

→ Blue Cross Blue Shield

→ Steelcase Health

→ The Michigan Program

of Michigan

→ Patient and Family

→ VA Ann Arbor

Centered Care (PFCC)

Healthcare System

at Michigan Medicine

on Value Enhancement (MPrOVE) → IBM Watson Health

We are seeking to extend our network of stakeholders that are actively tackling these wicked problems, and would welcome the opportunity to work together, with, and for partners from the corporate and non-profit sectors. If this is you, please get in touch.

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MDes Allies Healthcare:

University of Michigan:

→ Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak

→ College of Pharmacy

→ Beaumont Hospital, Troy

→ College of Engineering:

→ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

→ Biomedical Engineering

→ C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

→ Center for Entrepreneurship

→ Center for Innovation - Mayo Clinic → Huron Valley Physicians Association

→ Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety

→ Integrated Healthcare Associates

→ Mechanical Engineering

→ Michigan Program on Value Enhancement (MPrOVE)

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

→ Patient and Family Centered Care, Adult Services, University of Michigan Health System and University Hospital

→ Multidisciplinary Design Program → College of Literature, Science, and the Arts:

→ Peer & Family Support Program at Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

→ Department of Psychology

→ St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor → United Physicians, Inc. → University of Michigan Health System → University of Michigan Medical Group → University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center → VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

→ Department of Psychology → Health & Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board → Health Management Research Center → Medical School: → Neurology → Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences → Michigan Pediatric Device Consortium → Ross School of Business

Industry:

→ School of Information

→ Guardian Industries Corp.

→ School of Kinesiology

→ IBM Watson Health

→ School of Public Health

→ Lifebox

→ School of Social Work

→ Pelico, LLC

→ Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

→ Steelcase Health → Stryker

International Universities:

→ University of Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education: → College of Pharmacy → Education, Health, & Human Services, Dearborn

→ IxD Lab, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

→ Health Professions & Studies, Flint

→ Strategic Innovation Lab, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

→ Medical School → School of Dentistry → School of Kinesiology → School of Nursing → School of Public Health → School of Social Work

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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

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

Career Placements In April 2017, the first cohort of MDes students graduated from the Stamps School. Pioneers in their profession and their approach, MDes graduates are establishing themselves in a variety of ways.

Job offers from:

Contract work with:

Research:

→ C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

→ The Inovo Group

→ Philips Medical Systems International B.V.

→ University of Michigan School of Public Health

→ IRB Study Approval for ongoing, in-depth research on healthcare delivery in in-patient settings at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

→ Steelcase

→ Siemens Healthcare

→ Diagram (NYC)

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Professionally Networked Building relationships outside of the university through projects, site visits, fieldwork, competitions, and internships is an integral part of the MDes curriculum.

MDes students have interned with:

Site Visits: → Airbnb

MDes students have done fieldwork at:

→ C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

→ Autodesk

→ Guardian Industries Corp.

→ Doblin

→ Cooper

→ Steelcase

→ Guardian Industries Corp

→ Fjord

→ Integrated Michigan Patient-

→ Guardian Industries

centered Alliance in Care Transitions

→ IDEO

(Blue Cross Blue Shield of

→ IDEO.org

Michigan’s first patient-focused

→ LUNAR

Collaborative Quality Initiative)

→ Pixar

→ Philips Medical Systems International B.V. → The Michigan Program on Value Enhancement (MPrOVE) → University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center → University of Michigan School of Public Health

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→ Steelcase → SYPartners

MDes

Charrettes At key moments throughout the program, MDes students conceive of and host Design Charrettes with partners and stakeholders. These intense systems and strategy design sessions lead to tangible outcomes and recommendations that address vital elements of the cohort’s wicked problem.

2017 Charrette: MDes X IBM OV E R T H E C O U R S E O F T W O DAYS I N M A R C H 2 0 1 7,

were worth $239 Billion, demonstrating high-

MDes students presented “MDes X IBM,� a

level corporate interest and support. Additionally,

design charrette to explore the intersection of

faculty and students from across the university

cognitive technology and healthcare. Participants

participated in the charrette, as did clinicians and

represented a wide range of disciplines and

administrators from Michigan Medicine, providing

expertise. In addition to IBM Watson Health Team,

a rich diversity of thought. Together, charrette

MDes students hosted other industry leaders

attendees participated in a series of design-

in manufacturing and technology, including

led team activities to help support the creation

Guardian Industries Corp, Georgia Pacific, Molex,

of five different scenarios where cognitive

Stryker, and Steelcase Health. Collectively, the

technology intersects with healthcare.

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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

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design

Successful applicants will be:

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

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

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

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

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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 PhD.

Jan-Henrik Andersen

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

MDes Program Director

▸ electro-mechanical durables design

▸ digital fabrication ▸ tangible user interfaces

▸ product design

▸ design methods

▸ visualizion of subatomic particles

▸ problem-based learning ▸ cross-disciplinary design ▸ design research & scholarship

▸ sustainable marine farming ▸ 3D rapid prototyping

Sophia Brueckner

Roland Graf

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

▸ UX/interaction design

▸ architecture

▸ health and wellbeing technology

▸ object design

▸ digital fabrication

▸ interactive installation

▸ human interface development

▸ generative systems ▸ wearables ▸ design ethics

Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt

Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo

Assistant Professor

Professor

▸ collaboration

▸ publication design

▸ design research

▸ interface design

▸ graphic design

▸ exhibition design

▸ user experience and interaction design

▸ design research & scholarship

▸ service design

Sun Young Park

Brad Smith PhD.

Assistant Professor

Professor

▸ human computer interaction

▸ anatomy & biomedical illustration

▸ user experience design and design research ▸ computer-supported cooperative work ▸ health/medical informatics ▸ social computing

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

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

Hannah Smotrich

Bruce Tharp PhD.

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

▸ 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

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

▸ design process

▸ landscape architecture

▸ interdisciplinary and team-based design

▸ public projects & actions

▸ critical design practices

▸ industrial design

▸ social entrepreneurship ▸ critical & speculative writing

▸ design research

Joe Trumpey

Omar Sosa Tzec PhD.

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

▸ ecological design

▸ information design

▸ permaculture design

▸ visual rhetoric

▸ natural materials & building

▸ human-computer interaction

▸ community-based design build

▸ user experience and interface design

▸ constrained resource design

▸ inspection methods for interfaces and interactions

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 16

MDes

Collaborative Studio →

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

THE MDES STUDIO 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,

a few new photos needed

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Stamps Visiting Designers

Temple Grandin, Author and Designer

→

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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

Designer & Activist Emily Pilloton

Information Designer Richard Saul Wurman

Graphic Designer Paula Scher

Architect and Designer Michael Graves

Architect and Designer Bjarke Ingels

Graphic Designer Jonathan Barnbrook

Droog Design Co-founder Gijs Bakker

Information Architect Lisa Strausfeld

Interaction Designer Massimo Banzi

Photo by James Rotz (MFA ‘14)

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.

Jane Suri Fulton, IDEO Executive Design Director

Phil Gilbert, IBM Design Manager

Inclusive Design Sara Hendren

Product Designer & Architect Patricia Urquiola

Graphic Designer Stefan Sagmeister

Design Agency Project Projects

Speculative Designer Lucy Mcrae

NASA Visual Strategist Dan Goods

Graphic Designer Ellen Lupton

Industrial Designer Karim Rashid

Droog Design Co-founder Renny Ramakers

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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 (3+6)

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

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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.

→

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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MDes Program Attributes: → substantial experience in integrative design methods and practices → involvement with real-world clients and stakeholders → access to hundreds of experts and professionals from across the U-M campus → project-based learning → skill building in research-led design and design-led research methodologies → collaborative studio in the Faculty/Graduate Student Studio Building → access to the facilities and resources of a top-tier research university → generous financial support

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MDes Program Director

Editor

Art Direction & Design

John Marshall

Truly Render

Carl Greene

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This is one of the best integrations of design approaches in an MDes program that I’ve seen anywhere in North America.”

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

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