Design For Change - MA

Teaching will take place across two semesters through a series of Design Labs, which provide thematic focus to open project briefs.

Through these Design Labs, you will be encouraged to make innovative use of analytical design research methods, apply contemporary synthetic approaches to producing and prototyping design-led insights and to develop bleeding edge forms of communication, presentation and dissemination of design knowledge and future propositions for design-led interventions.

Design Labs are complimented by optional courses, which you will select from a range of subjects across the School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art and allied academic disciplines within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. You will also benefit from our keynote speaker series, providing you with direct access to industry thought leaders and academic experts and our annual field trip which will build on an intensive session of workshops, site visits and engagement in the field.

The programme culminates in an independent dissertation embracing your own, situated and practical interventions to real world challenges interrogated through the first two semesters.

It may be possible to undertake a work-based dissertation and apply your new skills in real world applications.