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MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures
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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
London College of Communication
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
22-SEP-25
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Duration
15 months
Course summary
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.
Course overview
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.
Who is this course for?
Students who care about the world they inhabit. Who make work with purpose and intent. Enthusiastic, collaborative and responsive designers who want to concentrate their practice on working as agents of positive change.
Students curious about both the systemic power of design in shaping the future, and the limitations, ethics and critical dialogue around eco-social innovation practices.
Students with a creative background and with practical design experience. Able to take initiative, try things out, take risks, disrupt, put their values into practice, and lead through uncertainty.
Students who want to work with people who are not the same as them. Able to create productive ecosystems of collective action. Able to cross boundaries of discipline, experience, identity and beliefs.
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£ 28,570per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
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University League Table
29th
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Campus address
University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London, London, WC1V 7EY, England
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Subject ranking
23rd out of 84 1
40th out of 122 5
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Entry standards
/ Max 239156 65%19th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10065.0 65%36th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.04 76%67th
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Entry standards
/ Max 221147 66%34th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10051.0 51%111th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 42.93 73%103rd
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