Master of Design

01/16/2025

01/10/2025

The final application deadline for the MDes program is fast approaching for the May 2025 start date.

This 12-month professional program connects engineers, designers, artists, and social scientists, and provides them with the opportunity to experience design thinking and human-centered approaches that address challenges facing society – both locally and globally.

We are looking for our first cohort of people working towards solving critical problems facing humanity. Join us and be a part of a community of changemakers who are redefining what it means to be a master of design.

The final deadline for domestic applicants is January 21, 2025.

Follow the link below to find out more and apply today!

https://masterdesign.ok.ubc.ca/

Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies UBC Engineering - Okanagan UBC Okanagan Graduate Studies UBC Okanagan Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The Master of Design is a professional graduate level program that blends critical design thinking, creative practice, and engineering principles within a culture of innovation, creativity and social and sustainable entrepreneurship. The program is geared towards working professionals seeking ways t...

10/31/2024

In this video, MDes program faculty Megan Smith, Alon Eisenstein and Kenneth Chau talk about the program and what they are excited about in the program.

Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies UBC Okanagan UBC Engineering - Okanagan UBC Okanagan Graduate Studies

The Master of Design is a professional graduate level program that blends critical design thinking, creative practice, and engineering principles within a cu...

10/29/2024

Interested in bringing about real-world change through UBCO’s professional Master of Design (MDes) program? You still have time to apply! The application deadlines have been extended:

🌏 International Students:
Apply by Nov. 7, 2024

🇨🇦 Domestic Students:
Apply by Jan. 21, 2025

Learn more at masterdesign.ok.ubc.ca

10/28/2024

Last spring, Megan Smith, MDes Director, and Philip Wyness, FCCS Technical Director, worked with a design team from VS America to design the new Design Studio for UBC’s Master of Design program.

“The space aims to inspire the next generation of design leaders and entrepreneurs through it’s flexible layout, cutting-edge technology, and emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility.” Megan Smith.

Check out the link below to read an excerpt from the project profile, prepared by Thomas Doe, Director of Higher Education for VS America.

In the spring of 2024, Megan Smith, MDes Director, and Philip Wyness, FCCS Technical Director, worked with a design team from VS America to design the new Design Studio for UBC’s Master of Design program. Below is an excerpt from the project profile, prepared by Thomas Doe, Director of Higher Educ...

09/26/2024

09/05/2024

“This is an entirely new program in the Okanagan, and we are excited because we see it as a way of empowering people to tackle big challenges. Students will come to us with big problems they want to solve in their communities. We will gather faculty around them and equip them to tackle those challenges.”

- Megan Smith, MDes Director.

Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences UBC Engineering - Okanagan

Working professionals seeking innovative learning encouraged to apply

08/13/2024

Applications are now open to come study UBC Okanagan in our Master of Design (MDes) program. We are looking for our first cohort of people working towards solving critical problems facing humanity. Our goal is to help you do that.

Join us on Sept. 10th or 12th for a virtual info session to have a chance to ask questions about the program and to answer your questions as you prepare your application and portfolio for admission for the Oct. 1, 2024 application deadline.

UBC Okanagan Graduate Studies Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies UBC Engineering - Okanagan Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Want a professional degree in design? Applications are now open to come study at UBC Okanagan in our Master of Design (MDes) program. We are looking for our first cohort of people working towards solving critical problems facing humanity. Our goal is to help you do that.

07/23/2024

Over the last six months, MDes Director, Megan Smith, and Communications Strategist, Shauna Oddleifson, worked with local designer Chris Bingham from Cyan Bold Design to create a new visual identity for the MDes program.

Chris Bingham, CDPTM, is the graphic designer responsible for Cyan Bold Design in Kelowna, BC. Chris works as a brand strategist and consultant, a role that involves bridging the gap between marketing and design. This new visual identity can be seen throughout our web site, in our digital marketing, and will soon show up on new tote bags, t-shirts and other items for giveaways.

Follow the link below to read more about Chris Bingham and see some of the new designs.

The Masters of Design (MDes) program got a new look this spring. MDes Director, Megan Smith, and Communications Strategist, Shauna Oddleifson, worked with local designer Chris Bingham from Cyan Bold Design to create a new visual identity for the program.

06/10/2024

Today our program faculty got together to talk about the Masters of Design (MDes) program and what it is all about.

The MDes aims to provide a supportive environment that fosters creativity, collaboration and entrepreneurial spirit to design solutions that can change the world.

“The program is designed to help people make a real impact. That is one of the reasons why entrepreneurship is built into it, we are looking at the way people can change the world through new ways of doing business, new economies, new ways of working together." Megan Smith, Director Master of Design

Let's design together to create a more equitable and sustainable world.

Find out more at www.masterdesign.ok.ubc.ca

Photo: Alon Eisenstein, Assistant Professor of Teaching , School of Engineering; Megan Smith, Associate Professor in Creative Technologies & Director Master of Design; Kenneth Chau, Associate Professor School of Engineering.