Core77: Bruce Tharp on the Stamps MDes
Core77: Bruce Tharp on the Stamps MDes
Stamps Associate Professor Bruce M. Tharp discusses the new Stamps MDes in Integrative Design program on Core77.
Today, we’re checking in on a master’s program with a broader, more interdisciplinary focus. The University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design is currently accepting applications for a Master of Design in Integrative Design. It’s a two-year program with an interesting approach — the idea is that students with a variety of design backgrounds will work together in teams to invent solutions for a wicked problem that will rotate every few years. The inaugural problem is “wicked healthcare,” and Stamps has lined up medical companies, biomedical engineers, surgeons and others to participate in the curriculum.
Recently, we talked to Bruce M. Tharp — a long-time Core77 contributor and a new addition to the Stamps faculty — about the MDes program.