M.Des.@SMI  Admissions – Round 2 Closing on 24th May

The Postgraduate Program in Design at Srishti Manipal allows graduates or professionals to extend and enhance their design knowledge through inquiry-based practice. The two years MDes program covers dimensions that foster the ability to become an independent, self-critical, creative designer. The blend of art, design, and technology focuses on transdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to information, teaching deep engagement with society, environment, and self. The program facilitates graduates to lead to a career in academic or industrial research and development, work with innovation labs and centres, and establish mainstream large Industries. With a focus on design through research, graduates work with emerging experimental start-ups to become social entrepreneurs, shaping the emerging ecology of start-up organisations in India through design-driven innovation.

Graduating students can chart their careers as strategic design innovators and practitioners not only in the burgeoning software/hardware industry but also in government, NGOs, and urban and rural development think tanks.

Through these courses an aspiring practitioner learns about technology, both existing and emerging, be sensitive to the impact it is creating on the world by designing for environmental impact, business strategy, socio political context, focused inquiry into human (and sometimes non-human),

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