Program Overview

Overview of the Stamps School of Art & Design

The Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan offers a unique art and design education, focusing on research and creative practice as engines for cultural change and innovation.

Programs

Undergraduate

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• BFA
• BA
• Interarts Performance
• Dual Degrees
• Minor in Art & Design
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Graduate

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• MDes in Integrative Design
• MFA in Art
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MDes in Integrative Design

Overview

The Stamps Integrative Design program is a place for future-focused, rigorous experimentation, situated in a cross-disciplinary art and design school. The program benefits from a broad range of practices, a deep history of craft, and cutting-edge fabrication facilities.

Curriculum

The program emphasizes interdisciplinary problem-solving, community engagement, and critical making, preparing students to become strategic leaders, visionary makers, researchers, and/or educators who will address complex challenges, societal needs, and emergent opportunities with tangible, forward-looking interventions.

Funding

Students have access to various resources, including metals, fibers, ceramics, sculpture, wood, printmaking, digital media, and digital fabrication studios.

Faculty Advisors

The program includes a diverse faculty and the resources of a premier research university.

Studio & Facilities

The MDes Studio is a dedicated studio located in the Faculty and Graduate Studios building, equipped with personal workspaces, collaborative shared spaces, and fabrication spaces and prototyping to facilitate day-to-day work.

FAQ

The program has a commitment to socially conscious practice, emphasizing methods and tools of social practice and engagement, and students have opportunities to directly connect with communities and critical topics through studios and projects.

The MDes Community

As a multi-disciplinary program, students have the ability to articulate their own design practice aesthetically, methodologically, and contextually within a lively community of varied and individualized approaches. The studio environment is a uniquely generative space for developing ways of working, and locating the values, curiosities, and territories that drive design practice.

Research Areas

The program fosters community collaboration and conversation, with value-driven design guiding the work in the program. Students have 24/7 access to their studio facilities, as well as a wide range of resources and equipment available at a top research university, including audio engineering studios, robotics labs, virtual reality studios, specialized libraries, institutes, collections, botanical gardens, and much more.