Prof Stephen Wang appointed New Scheme Leader of MDes

PolyU Design's Master of Design programme is well established and was recognised as one of the best in the world.  The School constantly reviews its curriculum to ensure its quality and relevance, and we look forward to providing further news on that soon. At the same time, we are pleased to announce that Prof. Stephen Jia Wang will take up the role as the new Scheme Leader of the Master of Design programme.

Prof. Wang joined PolyU Design as Professor in UX Design & Design Intelligence in January 2020. He consults projects by Guangzhou Automobile Corporation (GAC Group) and Huawei User-Center Design and is also one of the Project Leaders of the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (AiDLab), a research operation jointly established by PolyU and The Royal College of Art (RCA). He is also a key founding member of the recently established PolyU Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT).

Prof. Wang's vision for the Master of Design (MDes) Scheme is to nurture proactive leaders and game-changers for the future industry.  He said:  "I see the Scheme as a unique and dynamic platform to maintaining and expanding long-term partnerships with industry and commercial clients for student projects and other activities. These partnerships are going to draw from and inform a new landscape and direction for design practice and thinking.  With high-level flexibility and variety restructured in the curriculum, the Scheme gives new impetus to interdisciplinary research and education in the region. As designers see the world as systems to be organised and integrated, they don't have to choose any specialty for a profession, but see areas of study as sources of knowledge and patterns to inform their work towards meeting global challenges. In this Scheme, designers of innovation feel at home in the arts, humanities, science, engineering, and mathematics."

For more information on Prof. Wang's academic interests, see [link]