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Question about Harvard GSD M.Des and M.DE
Are these programs for architecture graduates to further studies in specific areas or are these programs less premised around architecture.
What are the types of projects that would belong in an application portfolio for these programs?
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aren’t these unaccredited master programs designed to lure extra tuition from foreign applicants looking for “big name” degrees and those who want to delay adulthood by staying longer under the security blanket of academia?
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MDE is supposed to be the more serious one, as it is a dual degree with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Thus - less artsy stuff and more lab work.
It does take away some of the MDes' more science-based lunch, which leaves MDes with the softer, critical theory stuff. The Real Estate track is still pretty rigorous but the others are pretty liberal arts/art school heavy.
Actually, it looks like the MRE is a separate degree now. This leaves MDes as very art-driven now that the empirical curriculum have been removed.
MDE is a combination of design and engineering. It is very focused on systems thinking and the connections between science, technology, and design. It has many connections to the ways that research is now conducted in landscape architecture programs—although in the end the outputs are much different. The output tends to vary widely, but can be most closely related to product design—although, again, the outcomes are more diverse than what you would find in most product design programs. There are design studios in addition to non-studio coursework. It seems that it privileges applicants with more of a technical background.
The MDes is for students who do not wish to take studio, but wish to focus on critical engagement with emerging discourse across architecture, landscape architecture (Ecologies Domain), and planning (Publics Domain). All while taking big leaps into critical theory, science and technology studies, philosophy etc. As students in MDes tend to do lots of 'design research,' the portfolio should show evidence of ability in publications, exhibitions, drawings... Curation is an important part of the MDes across all of the four domains. Except, perhaps, the 'Narratives' Domain which is more situated in the practice of writing than others. The 'Mediums' Domain is for students interested in innovating in representation or in technologies that are used in architecture and landscape architecture, but the focus of student work is very very broad and can have applications beyond these two professions. Many students in MDes feel a little bit like outsiders as they do not have a desk at Gund, and they are not situated in any department (architecture; landscape architecture; urban planning and design). However, for some, I'm sure this is also an advantage.
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