Design has never been more important than now as societies around the world are challenged by interconnected issues. Policymakers and business leaders are increasingly understanding the significant value that design can bring with its ability to communicate and frame problems with different perspectives.

Within our Department of Art and Design, students have an intensive, active and interactive, personal and collaborative learning experience. Students learn by theory and by practice as well as fostering a strong collaboration with the UAE design community at large.

Our design students are trained to focus their talents not only on the appearance of things, but to question why things are as they are, and more importantly what they could be in the future. We prepare exceptional students and our alumni extend this ethos at graduate schools and in industry, impacting design around the world.

Kevin Badni
Head of Department