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MAÎTRISE DESIGN, CRÉATION ET INNOVATION

The Maîtrise Design, Création, et Innovation program is organized around current major issues, allowing students to develop design thinking, explore innovative approaches, and master the necessary tools to generate novel solutions.

EN BREF

• Organized around current major issues
• Develops design thinking and innovative approaches
• Masters tools for generating novel solutions

INFORMATION IMPORTANTE

Programme en bref

The program is organized around current major issues, allowing students to develop design thinking, explore innovative approaches, and master the necessary tools to generate novel solutions. By specializing in a cutting-edge domain, such as prospective design, service design, interaction design, eco-design, etc., students will develop essential skills for today's design practice.

Cours et particularités

• The program consists of 45 credits
• Particularities include:
  • Typical path over 4 trimesters full-time or 3 trimesters if coming from the Honor's path in the Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design at the University of Montreal
  • Thematic seminars and advanced design workshops
  • Professional mission (between the 1st and 2nd year of study) exploratory or knowledge mobilization activity with public, parapublic, private, or community organizations; objectives: enrich and feed projects by inviting a reflective look at the issues and practices of the field

International

• Opportunity to study abroad as part of the course "Projet intégré - organisation - international"
• Immersion in formative environments to acquire fine expertise in emerging design practice areas

Thématiques de projets

• Students work on individual research and creation projects within thematic teams
• Project themes include:
  • Design and local excellence
  • Circular design: innovation, products, manufacturing, and sustainable uses
  • Mobility/transport: mobility in future cities
  • Homelessness and design: responding to diverse experiences
  • Towards a more inclusive built environment: designing for neurodiversity and user plurality
  • Montreal 2050: prospective and design fiction approaches to the city in the Anthropocene

Expertises

• The training is open to the diversity of expertise developed by the professors of the School of Design, including:
  • Collaborative design: user-centered approaches, interdisciplinary approaches, participatory approaches
  • Eco-design: prospective, strategic design, product-service systems, circular economy, life cycle analysis
  • Design and society: empathetic approaches, service and public policy experiences, consumption, daily scenarios, cultural identities, and socio-economic development
  • Mobility and transport: equipment and infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, active and multimodal transport
  • Game design: gamification and serious games
  • Design and city: urban furniture, urban scenography, appropriation, prospective city, sustainable city, smart city, role of design in urban projects, transdisciplinarity
  • Design and digital: interfaces, UX, UI, emerging technologies, augmented reality, immersion
  • Product/systems connected design: connected objects, ethics, and artificial intelligence, strategic design
  • History, theories, and ethics in design: design history, project theories, practice epistemology, habit, sociology of design
  • Design and health: aging, adaptation-rehabilitation of products and services
  • Design of interior environments: living environments, experience, scenography, ephemeral environments
  • Design and pedagogy: project-based learning, game-based pedagogy, physical and digital learning environments

Conditions damissibilité

• Find all the information and the complete list of required documents on the admission website

Coűts et aide financičre

• The cost of studies and tuition fees may vary depending on your status (Quebec resident, non-Quebec resident, international student)
• For more information, consult the admission website

PROJETS DE RECHERCHE-CRÉATION

• Students work on individual research and creation projects within thematic teams
• Project examples include:
  • Silence
  • The machine to queerize
  • Cinereal artifacts: making the intangible tangible

VIE ÉTUDIANTE

• Discover the intensity and effervescence of the student experience at the School of Design

ATELIERS

• Workshops are available for students to realize their projects, including:
  • Wood
  • Models
  • Plastic
  • Metal
  • Painting
  • Digital

EXPO DES FINISSANTS

• Exhibition of final projects by graduating students
• Past exhibitions:
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • Previous years