MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures

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.

1 year 3 months full time (45 weeks across a four-term model)

The MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures course welcomes applicants who are keen to explore design in terms of its humancentred and strategic approach its collaborative potential and as a leading force for driving meaningful and contextually relevant societal and ecological transformation

Applicants may come from a range of design disciplines or related creative industry experiences with a 21 or above Honours degree course or have other equivalent qualifications

The course team also welcomes students with relevant technical practical background experience who have worked in creative industries and who show a commitment to design and experiential learning being keen to explore their practice as a place of sustainable action and social transformation

The teaching team is looking for applicants who value critical thinking and socially and environmentally focused design and are looking to question the relationship of design industry and the global systems it inhabits
Educational level may be demonstrated by

Honours degree at 21 or firstclass
Possession of equivalent qualifications
Prior experiential learning the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required
Or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which taken together can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required
IELTS 6.5 or equivalent is required with a minimum of 6.0 in speaking and reading and 5.5 in writing and listening

TOEFL IBT - valid for 2 years - Score Required - 90 - Listening - 17, Reading - 18, Writing - 17, Speaking - 20.
TOEFL iBT Home Edition is NOT accepted.