Transitional Environments Design (MDes)

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Entrance Year 2025

Programme Code 73035

Stream Code TED (Full-time)/
TEP (Part-time)

Mode of Study Mixed Mode

Normal Duration 1 year (Full-time)/
3 years (Part-time)

Fund Type Self-Financed

Credits Required for Graduation 37

Initial Registration Credits 6 for local students
12 for non-local students

Tuition Fees HK$6,670 per credit
(Tuition fees will not be charged for the 1-credit AIE subject.)

Programme Leader(s)

Prof. Laurent Gutierrez
PhD, MArch, BArch, PgD, BT, BTS

The Master of Design (Transitional Environments Design) (TED) is a specialism developed in response to the unprecedented rural and urban changes that have occurred during the last few decades in Hong Kong and Mainland China. TED aims to develop students’ intellectual and practical mastery of the analysis and design of diverse rural and urban environments in the region, with broader implications for global contexts. The approach of this specialism is based on an understanding of the sociocultural dynamics of the regional context, transformed into new design strategies and design interventions.

Application Timeline - Sep 2025 Entry

Applications start: Sep 25, 2024

Review deadlines: Early Round: Nov 19, 2024; Round 1: Jan 16, 2025; Round 2: Mar 13, 2024; Round 3: Apr 30, 2025

Programme application deadline: Apr 30, 2025

The Scheme is accepting applications from local applicants for the Jan 2025 Entry. Please refer to PolyU Taught Postgraduate Admissions for details.

Register for our Info Seminar (12 Oct) here.

Aims

The Transitional Environments Design (TED) specialism focuses on the contemporary Hong Kong/Chinese rural and urban experience in the context of the Greater Bay Area. It offers a unique postgraduate education in rural and urban space design.

Also: Employers of MDes Graduates

"The transitional design approach is about transferring an understanding of the socio-cultural dynamics into new design strategies and design interventions."

Objectives

In line with the School’s critical approach to environmental and ecological design, this tailor-made specialism regards design as a holistic and systemic perspective on “wicked” and entangled global and local problems, following the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations.