หลักสูตรศิลปกรรมศาสตรมหาบัณฑิต สาขาวิชาการออกแบบนิเทศศิลป์ (หลักสูตรนานาชาติ)

Communication Design is an ever-expanding area of practice and theory and CommMA embraces a wide range of methods and possibilities for how design can function. Making is central to this. And making is rigorously understood as research or the production of new knowledge. Our two pathways, Experimental Communication Design and Type Design as Research allow for a critical understanding of practice-based research as a form of inquiry while supporting the individual concerns of students. This marries practice to theory and encourages, particularly in the latter pathway, a dialogue between the historical and the contemporary in acknowledging ‘design’ as a process to be continually reinvented.

Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world, socially, culturally, and politically. Influences from ancient India, Imperial China, and the West through the uneven spread of modernity have created a layered and complex landscape. The city of Bangkok is established as a local gateway and CommMA understands our centrality both specifically and broadly. The program supports research into regional and intra-regional forms of design while also investigating Southeast Asia’s international significance for visual cultures. Student practices are not all required to address these contexts but graduates emerge with a critical consciousness beyond Western-centric worldviews.

Students are welcomed from the disciplines of both art and design as well as other practical and academic contexts. This interdisciplinary environment extends the achievements of our undergraduate program, CommDe, which has established itself as a leading department for experimental communication design. To be part of our community is to be engaged in crucial dialogues with emergent practices and your peers. Our staff is experienced across a wide range of areas including conservation, design education, editorial design, new technologies, social and political histories of design, and visual cultural studies. And all have extensive contacts with industry and other professional contexts.