MIT ID Design Academics & Research Programme

M.Des in Design Academics and Research is an intensive two-year master degree programme being offered under Prof. H. Kumar Vyas Design Chair department, MIT Institute of Design, Pune from the academic session 2022-23. The programme has been envisaged to provide an engaged and impactful learning experience to selected candidates through a substantive and comprehensive curriculum. Design Education plays a critical role in transformation as the design is a materially engaged, world-building activity. Design is complicit in the problems we are facing and informs and shapes how people live. The unique curriculum seeks to provide a global perspective to the four-semester course, besides instilling in the candidates the fundamental values of inclusivity in the field of Design education. The specially designed post-graduate syllabus focuses on providing creative learning that includes the concept of the very idea of being a mentor, guide, faculty to student or mentee. The mentor's body of work experience suggests a way ahead which the mentee is currently facing- a creative block. The whole process of swimming through these blocks or rather “Unblocking” can be a great way to begin the flow. The course mainly focuses on the fundamentals of learning andragogy, modern trends in research methodology, leading to the completion of the mandatory requirement of executing a dissertation in the relevant chosen field of specialization. This exclusive course is geared around achieving educational outcomes that will influence Cognitive, Affective, and Social dimensions of design learning. The innovative course outline, with its strong research orientation and firm theoretical and practical foundations, uses cutting-edge technologies and field-based opportunities to prepare Design Education leaders of tomorrow.