Masters in Design Informatics

Design Informatics combines computational and creative thinking to critically re-imagine and design engaging and meaningful data-driven experiences, products and services. The central premise of our Design Informatics programme is that data is a material for design: by shaping data and their representations, we shape the world around us. Data Science provides the groundwork for this, with hands-on, practice-based challenge-led project briefs underpinned by speculative design methods and reflective research through design processes.

You will apply and explore these methods in the context of physical computing, robotics, machine learning, AI, mixed reality interactions and data ethics. You will connect, critically analyze and re-imagine technology in real-world contexts linked to society, culture, heritage, health, architecture, fashion, ecologies, finance, tourism, through interdisciplinary case studies, individual, and collaborative projects.

You will develop an ethically aware, critically reflective technical and creative practice at the intersection of data, design and society. By combining theory and research with an open-ended process of making and hacking you will imagine alternate future interactions and disrupt thinking.

As a designer… you will develop your ability to work with data, physical computing and emerging technologies working alongside computer scientists as well as taking your design practice into new speculative and innovative data-driven directions.

As a computer scientist… you develop your creative thinking, and learn about speculative approaches and design methods, working alongside designers, and apply your computational skills to cutting edge creative projects.