The Master of Design in Industrial Design program at University of Illinois Chicago intends to broaden students' worldviews and involves studio classes, workshops, seminars and lectures.

School: School of Design, University of Illinois Chicago
Course: Master of Design (MDes) in Industrial Design
Location: Chicago, USA
Course dates: August 2024 to May 2026
Application deadline: 15 January 2024; applications submitted after the deadline will be considered on a rolling basis until 15 May 2024

Our MDes program aims to broaden students' worldviews and deepen their understanding of their roles as designers through studio classes, workshops, seminars, lectures, visits and opportunities for regional and international travel.

Concluding the program, each MDes student explores a topic of inquiry in which they contextualize and formulate a position and develop tangible designerly responses. This process entails a broad range of engagement and adopts a holistic approach, encouraging and empowering students to blend theory with practice.

MDes student design projects are not merely formal and aesthetic propositions but also profound explorations that scrutinize the complex interplay between the natural and artificial elements in society and global culture.

Taught by nationally and internationally recognized design practitioners, the program is situated in the heart of Chicago at the city's largest university and its only public Research 1 institution.

Applicants who do not hold a bachelor's degree in design may be eligible for the school's MDes Preliminary Year, which provides a year-long course of study in preparation for the two-year MDes sequence.

Applications to this course have now closed.

Top image: Toffee, Nahid Shirzadkhan, 2023

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