UBCO / Field guide / 2026
Into
the Unknown
A student-made field guide to a graduate program built as a living studio.
A professional graduate studio
Learn by working with real problems
The Master of Design at UBC Okanagan is a place-based, change-making studio. Students work across design, engineering, entrepreneurship, and community contexts to understand complex problems and make useful interventions.
The MDes moves between campus, Woodhaven, field visits, civic spaces, businesses, and the people who shape the work.
Follow the walk →UBCO / HOW THE STUDIO WORKS
A sharedpractice
02 / PROGRAM CONTEXTThe studio moves between questions, evidence, prototypes, conversations, and reflection.
Use this site as a set of paths: walk the field site, open the atlas, understand the method, or read the program guide.
Campus in motion
Explore the campus
in 360°
Drag through the first scene, then open all nine stops in the campus walk.
OPEN THE CAMPUS WALK ↗
Campus panoramas: UBC Okanagan official self-guided virtual tour · route and presentation.
360 walkthrough
Walk
Woodhaven
Look around the original 360 field record and follow 21 connected stations toward the cabin.
Places from the schedule
See
the places
Open the locations the cohort visited and read what happened at each one.
MDes program guide
Understand
the program
See how the MDes connects questions, people, making, partnership, and public work.
Method / how the studio works
Find
the question
See the four moves—notice, frame, make, and test—that keep questions connected to place and people.
A student-made field guide / 2026