What are all the different ways Prepared by

Ahmed Ansari
2019

I could do my Masters thesis?

Doing a graduate thesis project in a creative field is hard. There are many different ways to do a graduate thesis in art,
media and design. Each approach entails a slightly different way of framing questions, a process or way of doing
things, different skillsets, and different outcomes.

This flowchart should help you frame the approach and methodology that you will use for the rest of this year to do
your thesis. It is meant to help you ask yourself the question: for the kind of general topic I’m interested in, what kind
of thesis do I want to do? Do I want to work for or with a community to help them come up with solutions to a problem
they’re facing, or do I want to create some kind of critical reflection or awareness around a social or cultural issue? Do
I want to explore and extend what can be done with a particular technology, or do I want to dive deeply into a
theoretical domain and develop new ways of educating artists or designers about it?

Think about what this thesis means to you, what ways of working you find engaging and interesting (this is an year
long endeavor, after all), and what you want to get out of it at the end. Above all, have fun with your thesis: this is a
great opportunity for you to spend a lot of time working on something dear to you with all the resources and support
that NYU and the faculty at IDM have to offer, so use this time and space to do something amazing!

I am

working with working with an creating a set of trying to understand

interested in institution
technologies, tools artifacts or an a domain of
or materials or community or experience human knowledge

to work to critique to raise

explore what awareness
together on and get
can be done or educate
an issue or people to reflect
with them about an issue
problem on an issue
in order to

to effect to explore
extend what a theme to figure out how it
long term can inform or critique
they can do or concept
systemic change creative practice
critically

explore their to
applications explore possible
in solving a futures with
human problem them

so my approach will be
Human Systems or
Technology Centered Participatory
Innovation Transition
Design or Co-Design
Design

Creative Critical
Art or Critical Design
Futures or
Media Design Studies
Fictions