{"id":1045,"date":"2019-07-09T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bxmc.poly.edu\/~moeezosaleem\/IDMTest\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:29:08","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Launched in 2004, the Integrated Design & Media<\/strong>\u00a0(IDM<\/strong>) Program\u2014 formerly called Integrated Digital Media\u2014 is a place that fosters creative practice, design research and multidisciplinary experimentation with emerging media technologies. Located within Tandon School of Engineering, in the\u00a0Department of Technology, Culture, and Society<\/a>\u00a0(TCS), IDM is a \u2018STEAM<\/a>\u2018 program combining artistic inquiry with scientific research and technological practice to explore the social, cultural and ethical potentials of emerging technologies. We focus on how to create new experiences with technologies but also on what is worth making and why.<\/p>\r\n

The IDM curriculum combines project-based learning with the study of historical, cultural, legal and philosophical aspects of digital media. We emphasize the development of skills applicable to a broad spectrum of media through individual and collaborative work. Guest lectures and conferences supplement our curriculum and maximize students\u2019 personal contact with leaders in various sectors of the following fields: business, advocacy, service, entertainment, and education. The program culminates in a thesis that combines theory and practice to showcase students\u2019 creative and technical abilities.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

IDM<\/strong>\u00a0offers a four-year\u00a0BS degree<\/a>, a 30-credit\u00a0MS degree<\/a>, a cross-school minor available to all NYU students, and an\u00a0accelerated 5-year BS\/MS<\/a>. The IDM curriculum integrates topics typically found in an arts context \u2013 creative expression and design within both fixed and interactive media \u2013 with engineering topics such as signal processing and human-computer interaction. As a program within TCS, this curriculum embraces the department\u2019s core focus on the intersection of engineering and society, encouraging students to engage with technology in a creative, critical, sustainable, and ethical manner; IDM courses feature strong emphasis on human-centered, outward-facing work that integrates values of self-expression, equity, and social justice into engineering. The IDM program articulates these goals through a number of initiatives, many of which, such as the\u00a0Ability Project<\/a>, are done in close collaboration with other departments in the University.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

IDM<\/strong>\u00a0is the only program at NYU\u00a0Tandon in which the majority of faculty and students are women. As with all Tandon programs, we strive to excel in diversity, inclusion, and equity, with a high proportion of first-in-family students, students of color, and students receiving significant federal aid for college. \u00a0We firmly believe in the role engineering and creativity can play in affecting social change, and have proudly developed and hosted conferences, hackathons, and days of action around\u00a0diversity in games<\/a>,\u00a0inclusion and equity in creative technology<\/a>,\u00a0better experiences\u00a0for users of mass transit<\/a>,\u00a0safer streets<\/a>,\u00a0design for disability<\/a>, and\u00a0immigrant rights<\/a>. \u00a0We partner with Brooklyn-based non-profit arts and advocacy organizations for much of this\u00a0programming, including the\u00a0ISSUE Project Room<\/a>,\u00a0Eyebeam<\/a>,\u00a0Tech Kids Unlimited<\/a>, and\u00a0Code Liberation<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Launched in 2004, the Integrated Design & Media\u00a0(IDM) Program\u2014 formerly called Integrated Digital Media\u2014 is a place that fosters creative practice, design research and multidisciplinary experimentation with emerging media technologies. Located within Tandon School of Engineering, in the\u00a0Department of Technology, Culture, and Society\u00a0(TCS), IDM is a \u2018STEAM\u2018 program combining artistic inquiry with scientific research and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get-to-know-idm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}