Outline
Design Informatics brings together scientific data processing with creative concept development. Our Design Informatics programmes are advanced, full-time courses for professionals and recent graduates. They are extremely hands-on, progressive and designed with industry at their heart.
As a student, you’ll learn to unlock the power of big data, harness massive connectivity, analytic power and industrial-strength simulation to design products and services that will transform lives. You’ll learn to work as part of a team, you’ll be challenged to think differently, and you’ll work to overcome 'real world' challenges.
Three programmes
There are three programmes available, which have been tailored specifically to two types of graduate.
At ECA, our MA programme is for people from a design background, focusing on design, products, media, fashion and architecture.
Our collaborators in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh run the two programmes for people from a computing background. They focus on informatics, vision and robotics, speech and language technology, sensor networks and machine learning. They are:
MSc Design Informatics (one year, full-time)
MSc Advanced Design Informatics (two years, full-time)
Each programme comprises a series of courses which bring together students from both backgrounds: design and programming. You will collaborate across both streams to develop digital, physical and networked artefacts that challenge what we know about connecting design and data. You will study a combination of core courses, electives that you will be able to follow on your own, a personally defined dissertation and a final project. In this way, you’ll develop the skills to apply your learning to a whole range of challenges.
Advanced study
If you choose to study one of our advanced programmes (MSc Advanced Design Informatics), you’ll also participate in a placement with a leading creative or digital organisation over the middle summer before extending your research focus in the second year with additional courses and a longer, more in-depth dissertation.
Getting hands-on
These programmes are all about participation and getting involved. As a student, you’ll take part in regular talks, workshops and debates with a whole range of high-profile speakers. You’ll enjoy film screenings and game jams and attend regular ‘creative picnics’ with industry partners, along with conferences, exhibitions and festivals where you’ll be expected, not only to attend, but to exhibit.
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Proposed new programme
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