• 专业概况
• 所属院系
• 中国学生入学要求
• 课程信息

专业概况

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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.

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

Through deep collaboration with our constituents, 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 project-based curriculum, the Stamps MDes program erases traditional boundaries between design research and design practice to create a new process-oriented curriculum.

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 include:

How might we use integrative design methods to intervene in our education systems, food systems, and housing networks to address inequities? How might we use integrative design methods to compensate for preexisting biases and prejudice in American society? How might we use integrative design methods to disrupt cycles of low expectation that are reinforced and perpetuated by social and cultural stereotypes?

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.

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. Centered in research, Integrative Design is not locked into one disciplinary design strategy. Instead, we are adaptive, utilizing multiple tactics as the project or problem requires.

In the first two years of the MDes program, students have worked with:

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

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.

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.

Stamps MDes graduates 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.

所属院系

进入哪个院系学习？ Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

中国学生入学要求

为来自中国的学生设计 Applicants must complete a bachelor’s degree from a U.S. college or university accredited by a regional accrediting association; or Complete an international degree that is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree from a college or university recognized and approved by the Ministry of Education or Commission responsible for higher education in the country where the degree is earned. Other English Language Requirements: Paper/Pencil TOEFL & TWE score of 560; MELAB score of 80.

课程信息

学制：全日制(2 年)

学费：

开学时间：预计在八月 2022

申请截止日期：

留学地点：Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design2000 Bonisteel Blvd,ANN ARBOR,Michigan,48109, United States