MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures

University of the Arts London

MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures will connect you to others with a shared interest in eco-social justice and sustainability. Develop a more critical perspective while applying your design practice and radical imagination to some of our most complex eco-social challenges.MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures has been established as a collaborative, creative and generative studio for designers interested in working with complex global issues.The course explores the future of design practice and its interdependence with eco-social concerns. Whether you are a graphic designer, systems designer, animator, filmmaker or architect, no matter your educational or professional background, you are invited to investigate and question your discipline in relation to the global systems you inhabit. Looking at the environment, materiality, empathy, ethics and justice within broad and dynamic socio-cultural, economic and political contexts, this is both a practical and thoughtful course with an emphasis on innovative practice, collective action, plurality and real-world change.The MA will culminate in a final ‘Design in Action’, creating demonstrable eco-social impact.