The Master’s program in Design is positioned within the broad field of contemporary design practice and research. Responding to real-world challenges arising from social transformation and industrial change, the program establishes a talent-development framework characterised by practice-led learning, research-informed enquiry, interdisciplinary integration, and collaborative education. Delivered through a studio-based model, it adopts a joint supervision mechanism led by individual supervisors and supervisory panels. Drawing on both internal resources and an extensive network of external partnerships, the program integrates teaching modules, thematic research, and applied projects into a coherent training pathway. Students are supported through a complete developmental cycle—from problem identification and contextual investigation to proposal development, prototyping and validation, and final dissemination—ensuring an equal emphasis on academic rigour and professional competence, and enabling learners to cultivate independent design judgement and a confident professional voice in situated contexts.

The curriculum is underpinned by art theory, humanistic enquiry, and design methodologies, and encompasses key domains including media and communication, product and service innovation, spatial and environmental design, and public culture and curatorial practice. It further extends into creative practices closely connected to contemporary everyday life, such as animation and moving-image storytelling, fashion and lifestyle design, and branding and packaging. In parallel, the program actively engages with the accelerating trajectory of digitization and intelligent systems by introducing computational approaches, data-informed thinking, and emerging media as both design language and creative toolkit. This supports advanced exploration in interaction experience, intelligent systems, and digital creation, and prepares students to propose integrated design solutions that are implementable, verifiable, and scalable within the intersecting contexts of technology, culture, and commerce.

The program’s educational objectives focus on cultivating high-level, interdisciplinary, and innovation-oriented design professionals. Graduates are expected to demonstrate an international outlook and a strong sense of social responsibility; to conduct systematic research and work effectively across disciplines; and to possess robust project-delivery capability from concept through to implementation. At the same time, they should have critical thinking and aesthetic judgement, and be able to address public issues and societal needs through design, producing outputs with both scholarly value and tangible impact. Through a structured combination of coursework, studio practice, thematic research, and staged reviews and presentations, the program continuously strengthens students’ research capacity, creative competence, and professional communication, enabling them to develop sustained competitiveness and long-term professional growth across diverse design contexts.

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