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Media Design Practices/Lab Field at Art Center is an interdisciplinary design MFA grounded in media and technology. The award winning curriculum features two intentionally divergent tracks called Lab and Field. In the Field track, students work in a global context where social issues, media infrastructure, and communication technology intersect. A collaboration with Designmatters, Art Center's social impact initiative, the curriculum includes international fieldwork In 2015-16, students will spend ten weeks working out of UNICEF's Tech4Dev Innovation Lab in Kampala, Uganda. The cross-cultural field experience prepares Field-track graduates to play a leadership role in situations of extraordinary complexity, impacting the critical issues of our time, working directly with communities, organizations, institutions, non-profits, NGOs, development agencies, social enterprises, corporations or design consultancies.Degree offered: Master of Fine Arts in Media Design. Preferred application deadline: February 1, 2015.