The Bachelor of Design (BDes) programme challenges conventional perceptions of product design as a solely industrial discipline, focusing instead on reimagining experiences and responding to the complexities of modern life. Our students work beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and engage with specialist expertise from other domains, such as science, medicine or technology, to create a vision of a better future.
You will explore complex social, ethical and environmental issues as subjects for design projects, and will learn how to apply research methods and analytical skills from the social sciences in order to ensure your designs respond to the needs of the people who will use and be affected by them.
Through a unique programme of studio-based learning and live projects, you will acquire a wide range of visualisation, communication and material-making skills that will enable you to bring together user insights, expert input and ethnographic information to drive the design and innovation process.
As part of our trans-disciplinary approach, the BDes programme offers classes in another language and the opportunity of a semester-long exchange with one of our international academic partners. The BDes programme shares the first two years with the Master of European Design (MEDes) programme, at which point you can choose which of the two directions best suits your academic objectives.
MEDes Product Design (5 years)
The Master of European Design (MEDes) is a unique programme created by the School of Innovation and Technology in partnership with other eminent European institutions. The programme sets the school's trans-disciplinary approach to product design in an international context, providing an opportunity for you to immerse yourself in different cultures and experience alternative approaches that will inform your future practice.
The MEDes pathway shares its first two years with the BDes programme, at which point you can choose which of the two directions best suits your academic objectives. MEDes students spend the following two years studying abroad in two different European schools, before returning to Glasgow for the final year.
