MDES DESIGN INNOVATION & SERVICE DESIGN

Haldane Building, 13 students

Design Innovation is a programme focused on human-centred design – looking at the way the world works and identifying ways it might be better, either through big systemic changes or small interventions that help individuals: the future of work and education, the impact of social isolation, the need for better urban transport, attitudes to end of life care, the role of the city environment on mental health and physical wellbeing.

These are just some of the topics that have become Masters projects – 12-week independent explorations of the world at a human and individual scale.

To some extent, the outcomes of these projects are irrelevant (though they really are excellent, as you’ll see). Being a designer and an innovator is not just a matter of a skillset but of a mindset– something very difficult to assess or to teach.

We hope that you take the time to explore the thinking, insights and ingenuity of our 2023 cohort, by student, by theme or by tag through this site.

from Crush Cup : Revival of the Terracotta

from Crush Cup : Revival of the Terracotta

from Crush Cup : Revival of the Terracotta

from Crush Cup : Revival of the Terracotta

from Crush Cup : Revival of the Terracotta

Weaving Cyber Community

from WEVING

from WEVING

from WEVING

from WEVING

from Mapping Technique

from “Me before new home”

from “Me before new home”

from Mapping Technique

from Regain NATURE in Anthropocene

from WeeCare – caring transition

from Creative ways to weave stronger community cohesion, Govanhill as an example

from Personal project – drawings & videos

from Sense Space elective portfolio

from Personal project – drawings & videos

from Weegie’s Miles

from Weegie’s Miles

from Me before new home

from Weegie’s Miles

from Weegie’s Miles

from Mapping the city-Colour of Glasgow(series)

from Plant Liberation Movement

from Mapping the city-Colour of Glasgow(series)

from Mapping the city-Colour of Glasgow(series)

from Plant Liberation Movement

from The Fl:p

from The Fl:p

from The Fl:p

from The Fl:p

from The Fl:p

from Foragow-Find Nature in Glasgow

from Foragow-Find Nature in Glasgow

from Museum change lives

from Museum change lives

from Museum change lives

from Museum change lives

from Museum change lives

from WE CAN HELP CommunLiNK

from WE CAN HELP CommunLiNK

from WE CAN HELP CommunLiNK

from WE CAN HELP CommunLiNK

from WE CAN HELP CommunLiNK

from First-time Gift Aid

from First-time Gift Aid

from First-time Gift Aid

from First-time Gift Aid

from First-time Gift Aid