1. Our students bring creative talents, developed through undergraduate study or professional experience.
They learn new design methods and tools and find new areas to apply their creativity in projects that
make a difference to the world
2. staff
Design strategist Professor Seaton Hazel White,
Professor Tom Inns Baxter, OBE, Director Programme Director
of the Centre for
Natural Design
Professor Mike Press Gill Wildman, of Professor Colin
additionally each student is appointed
is a design policy Carnegie Mellon Burns, former head of
maker in areas from University is external IDEO, UK is a visiting
a study advisor who has expertise in
counter terror to craft examiner for the lecturer
the students project area
Programme.
3. structure
Discover Define Deliver
People + Design Design Practice
Realisation
Strategic Design and Communication
Futures
Thinking
Research Methods Writing
4. structure
Futures
Teaching Strategic Info Design Placement
5. projects
People and Design
20 credit module led by Fraser Bruce, This module provides students from the
Master of Design and the MSc in Design Ethnography with an insight into the
relationships between people, technology (in the broadest sense of the word -
paper is a technology) and design. Using cultural and design theories as
frameworks it explores through hands-on design projects and case studies the
ways in which design practices creatively engage with new trends in society.
6. placements
20 credit module allows students to work on live projects, from
conducting design research for Deutsche Telekom in Berlin to working
alongside designers developing design concepts. We have
opportunities this year for students to work with a Rwandan Textile
manufacturer and with leading forensic scientists to develop a forensic
jewellery identification system
7. masters projects
Ryan McLeod has an undergraduate degree in Interactive Media
Design. For his master’s project he worked alongside Graham Pullin,
designer and author of Design Meets Disability (MIT Press) to
develop speech hedge a system to customise speech synthesis for
people who cannot speak. Ryan now works for Equator Design
Divya Kymal studied graphic design in Chennai, India. Her master’s
project considered how the University of Dundee can communicate a
clear and consistent message to international applicants. After
graduation from the Masters, Divya worked for Idiom Designs in
Bangalore and now has her own visual communications company,
jointfamily
Jen Ballie studied textiles at undergraduate. Her master’s project
looked at how virtual media might reduce our consumption of
throwaway fashion. During her Masters study Jen fought off stiff
competition to secure an innovative PhD scholarship funded by
ethical retailer Neal’s Yard at the University of the Arts London.
Jen is now working in the Textiles Futures Research Group
(Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Chelsea College of Art
& Design and London College of Fashion) a world centre for
innovation.
