Design for Change Dún Laoghaire, Institute of Art, Design + Technology

Overview

The MA Design for Change is a full-time international, practice-based programme which gives designers and non-designers alike an in-depth knowledge of social design practice, design strategy, and the skills to leverage design in the pursuit of positive individual, organisational, societal, and global change.

The programme develops critically conscious and socially literate changemakers, who have been immersed in the thinking, skills, and experience required to facilitate current and future transitions in ethical and ecologically sustainable ways; to become pioneers and leaders in the practice.

With the partners at the George Brown College, Toronto (IwB) and through external engagement, students learn to apply the transformative capacity of design through the implementation of powerful, collaborative, contemporary design skills to achieve meaningful co-created solutions which enable progressive change in individuals and communities.

The MA responds to the great challenges of the present and future; social, economic, and ecological which all require new ways of thinking and new ways of doing. Strategic, ethical, radical, just, and purposeful, this programme offers new dynamic ways of engaging with our collective challenges.

There is an opportunity to choose from one of 3 specialist pathways within the programme:

• Social Design

• Ecological Design

• Design Futures

Future careers