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MASocial Design & Sustainable Innovation

Tuition fee €5,700 per semester
Application fee €1,000 one-time
More information

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Overview

Social Design & Sustainable Innovation can mean a significant difference in cultural and business organisation, leading to more real and digital innovation. The professional skills are derived from mastering the respective design disciplines paired with methodologies of social change that are combined.

With the Master in Social Design you can become a designer for eco-social change and learn to develop innovative design ideas for the social challenges of our time.

The Master’s degree in Social Design & Sustainable Innovation challenges the current system and thinks design from the perspective of the social and planetary state of emergency. The goal: the education of a new, radical, revolutionary generation of designers. You will work with practices such as artistic research, cooperation, co-creation and other methods of qualitative research. The overall goals are fairness, transparency and sustainability.

Programme structure

4 SEMESTERS 120 ECTS

1. SEMESTER 30 ECTS

  • Social Design Science + Practices A
  • Design Research
  • Social Campaigning
  • Art, Society + Change
  • Marketing and Branding
  • Profession and Best Practice I


2. SEMESTER 30 ECTS

  • Social Design Science + Practices B
  • Sustainable Innovation I
  • Sustainable Innovation II
  • Social Design Internship
  • Sociology and Branding
  • Profession and Best Practice II

3. SEMESTER 30 ECTS

  • Design Thinking / Research
  • Design Thinking / Synthesis and Creation
  • Design Thinking / Realisation and Prototyping
  • Social Design Manifesto + Portfolio
  • Design Practices
  • Profession and Best Practice III

4. SEMESTER 30 ECTS

  • Master’s Thesis + Colloquium

Career opportunities

Graduates take up traditional and new design professions with an extended and scientifically sound design, thinking and action approach.

They work as:

  • Art directors
  • Designers
  • Consultants
  • Project Managers
  • Web Developers
  • Change Managers
  • Curators for companies and institutions.

The Master of Arts degree prepares students for a doctoral or PhD degree programme, which opens the way in particular to academic careers in teaching and research.

Apply now! Winter semester 2023/24
This intake is not applicable
Studies commence
1 Oct 2023
Apply now! Summer semester 2024
Application period has ended
Studies commence
1 Apr 2024
Apply now! Winter semester 2024/25
This is a rolling intake - applications are accepted all year round.
Studies commence
1 Oct 2024

Application deadlines apply to citizens of: United States

Apply now! Winter semester 2023/24
This intake is not applicable
Studies commence
1 Oct 2023
Apply now! Summer semester 2024
Application period has ended
Studies commence
1 Apr 2024
Apply now! Winter semester 2024/25
This is a rolling intake - applications are accepted all year round.
Studies commence
1 Oct 2024

Application deadlines apply to citizens of: United States

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