MDes Design Innovation & Citizenship

Haldane Building, 7 students

This programme explores the relationship between design practice and contemporary society and encourages a design-led critique of the present. The programme asks design practitioners to step beyond their traditional professional and occupational roles and consider the broader application of design practices to formulate and articulate social change. In challenging the purpose, methods and ambitions of current design practice, our students identify opportunities for new design activity, pioneer innovative forms of engagement and collaborate with citizens to generate responses to emerging problems, political issues and social phenomena.

Citizenship means being part of a community with the power and capabilities to enact change when needed, supporting people to take control of circumstances and processes that directly affect their everyday lives with the application of ‘thinking through design’.

from I Take Climate Action:Explore climate change awareness to action

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from Earthlings: Moss In The City

from Earthlings: Moss In The City

from Earthlings: Moss In The City

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from Feminist City: Imagination of the Future Civic Innovation in Public Life

from Feminist City: Imagination of the Future Civic Innovation in Public Life

from Feminist City: Imagination of the Future Civic Innovation in Public Life

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from StoryUs – Community Intercultural Relationship Building

from StoryUs – Community Intercultural Relationship Building

from StoryUs – Community Intercultural Relationship Building

from StoryUs – Community Intercultural Relationship Building

from StoryUs – Community Intercultural Relationship Building