SCI-Arc's MediaSCAPES is a one year, three semester non-professional Masters degree program blending research and design studios with intensive seminars and workshops. Students receive a Masters of Design Research (MDesR) degree with a specialization in Media. In the five years between 2007 and 2012, the world will experience greater technological advances in the mediascapes which form our everyday life than the entire previous fifty years of progress. The SCI-Arc MediaSCAPES program has been established as a response to these massive changes, as an academic platform defining a new paradigm in curriculum, research and design that critically responds to contemporary technologies and emergent geopolitical systems.