Design Imaginaries: Teaching Futures at ArtCenter’s Media Design Practices

Faculty from ArtCenter's Media Design Practices (MDP) program discuss a few of the core questions that shape their teaching and recent work, and share student work that has emerged from these collective conversations.Media Design Practices (MDP) is an interdisciplinary design Master of Fine Arts preparing designers to question, innovate and lead through design, critical thinking and creative technology. The program trains students to bring a daring, critical and engaged mindset to a world in constant flux, recognizing that today’s technological transformations, global inequity and environmental uncertainty demand new design practices. Through prototyping, research and fieldwork, students—who join the college from diverse backgrounds and cultures—learn to question the present and envision the future of how technology will impact humans and multispecies ecosystems.Panelists: Sean Donahue, Tim Durfee, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Yasaman SheriDesign Imaginaries: Teaching Futures at ArtCenter’s Media Design Practices MFA