Design Informatics

Overview

We play with making physical and digital artefacts and experimental data things. We build, test, hack and re-interpret what data means to society, and where design has opportunity to shape future thinking for challenge lead enquiry.

Data Informatics sits within the Institute of Design Informatics and is informed by research practice and industry partnership across Edinburgh College of Art, and School of Informatics.

What will I study?

Within Design Informatics, we critically explore a world facilitated and experienced through data as a lens to being human. Our bodies, cities, architecture, and cultures are embedded with data.

Both data and design are implicit to our approach to creating new experiences and artefacts. We explore these areas with data technologies as our material including Internet of Things, AI and Machine learning, blockchain, immersive experiences and physical computing. We ask questions, explore industry challenges, and interrogate ideas by hacking material and immaterial data things to create real-world, yet future facing speculative artefacts and experiences.

Career opportunities

This Design Informatics programme offered by The University of Edinburgh will enable you to engage across a wide range of fields that exploit the intersection between:

• data science

  • Design
  • information technology
  • Experience and immersive design
  • Programmable matter

The programme will open a host of opportunities in working with:

• companies
• charities
• the public sector

For those who wish to stay in academia, the course provides a solid foundation for a PhD in related areas.