Environmental Design (MEDes) (Thesis)

The Faculty of Environmental Design offers the truly innovative thesis-based Master in Environmental Design (MEDes) degree program. Increasingly, natural, built and social environments are seen as intertwined, interdependent and indeterminate, creating challenging conditions which must be addressed to achieve a sustainable future. To meet this challenge requires environmental designers with exceptional leadership and visionary skills, who are able to inform, design and manage interventions across the scales of human endeavour.

Our faculty members are eminent design researchers and professionals, recognized internationally for their work. Faculty proficiency spans a tremendous interdisciplinary spectrum including: expertise in animal science, architecture, computational media design, education, ecology, environmental law, environmental science, economics, ergonomics, geography, industrial design, landscape architecture, life cycle assessment, planning, philosophy, urban design, wildlife biology and complex systems analysis.

Our Students

The MEDes Thesis program is intended for those wishing to expand their current professional or design related backgrounds with advanced interdisciplinary practice-based research and study. Blurring traditional disciplinary definitions, students undertake their studies in one or more of our core thematic areas: ecological design, urban systems design, technological systems design, human and cultural systems design. Each represents the scholarly, professional practice and research strengths necessary to critically engage the broad scope of environmental design inquiry.

Applications for the Fall 2012 class of the MEDes program will be accepted from December 1, 2011 until February 1, 2012.

Visit our admissions page for more details.