Information Arts and Information Design Practices Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Overview

The Information Arts and Information Design Practices , M.Des course from Manipal Academy of Higher Education offers new storytelling approaches and pushes our imagination to create narratives through personal, cultural, technological, contextual, and creative lenses.

The IAIDP program equips students with the skills to navigate the rapidly evolving Information Age. The program emphasises interpreting, organizing, and visually representing complex data in a way that transforms information into clear, engaging, and impactful narratives. Creative practitioners are trained to see themselves as information artists and designers who can develop new gestalts of perceiving, understanding, and communicating information. The program fosters creative leadership and vision in information art and design, encouraging students to translate their unique perspectives into outputs that address pressing social, ecological, technological, and cultural needs.

IAIDP emphasizes deep engagement with society, the environment, and oneself, viewing art, design, and information as a visionary and relationship-building process. It encourages immersive experiences, creative inquiries, self-reflection, leadership, environmental stewardship, and worldmaking, positioning itself as an inquiry-based program.

Career opportunities:

The above mentioned capability sets could lead to opportunities such as:

• Employment in Design Studios, Advertising Agencies and the Publishing Industry
• Employment in the New Media and Software industry
• Employment in Media and Television Industry
• Employment in startups, small and medium enterprises, NGOs, and social and educational enterprises.
• You can become a contemporary art practitioner, entrepreneur, or design consultant.
• You can actively engage in emerging domains such as digital arts and new technology and storytelling in new formats.
• Pursue your research and continue to do a PhD.
• Develop your own projects and apply for grants.
• Some jobs profiles could be Design Strategist, Project Manager – Community Programme Services, Entrepreneur- Visual Designer. Artist. Arts Manager, Design consultant, Educator, Social justice Coordinator, Multicultural program coordinator, Cultural Design Practitioner, Creative Director, Program Manager, Creative and Cultural Researcher, Storyteller, Systems designer/ Consultant, Design Consultant, Educational designer, Eco-artist/ Eco –Designer