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Course overview
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Starts: Sep 2022 / Sep 2023
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Duration: FT 1 year
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Mode: Full time
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Fees: UK: £10,400 / INT: £17,000
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Location: The Institute
Ideal for: diverse creatives, social entrepreneurs and changemakers with a burning desire to tackle complex global issues
Building a sustainable tomorrow, today.
This Social Innovation master of design (MDes) course will empower you to create new services, organisational models and communications platforms that better serve society.
In a recent survey, our postgraduate courses scored 91% student satisfaction for creativity and design, and 93% satisfaction overall.*
*Source: Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, 2020
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Why study an MDes Social Innovation master's degree?
- Address complex global issues like inequality, social cohesion and climate change
- Develop a wealth of fundamental and transferable skills
- Hone leadership skills by prototyping and piloting theories of change
- Co-create and facilitate social action programmes
- Co-design new organisational models with powerful social missions
- Create highly participatory services using new tech and organisational models
- Think more laterally and spot new patterns of social change
- Tap into exceptional industry connections
- Study in a stunning new building in London's Design District
- Be a legacy-maker for The Institute of Creativity and Technology
In our powerful new Social Innovation course in London, you will gain the skills and insights needed to make a true impact to bring about social and environmental change through partnership development with businesses, community groups and public bodies.
You will learn to think more laterally and spot new patterns of social change in order to engage with the most serious social and environmental issues of our time – problems which need lateral ‘joined up’ solutions.
Once you’ve studied our Social Innovation master's course, which you can study full time for one year or part time for two, you’ll understand your own unique value and apply your skills to transform the way in which services, organisations and businesses are configured to meet local and global challenges.
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The MDes course was fantastic at helping me experiment and play with ways of designing services and new approaches to addressing social issues. Collaborating with other creatives helped me question and build my own design approach which has been essential to developing my career.”
Key study topics
On this MDes Social Innovation course, you will:
- Learn to effectively design and formulate creative methods to generate new solutions that will bring vision and integrity to organisations, businesses and the wider global society
- Demonstrate how social innovation operates across boundaries between sectors, organisations and traditional services
- Have the opportunity to improve civic and economic development by designing new and sustainable services, technology platforms, organisations and businesses
- Test and pilot new ideas to address fundamental problems in areas such as: inequality, health, social cohesion, the aging population, gender, race, climate change and economic development
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The Institute for Creativity and Technology
When you study a master's in Social Innovation, you will join a support network and diverse community of enterprising creatives in a stunning new building teeming with creativity and endeavour. Opening in 2021, The Institute for Creativity and Technology connects academics, researchers and postgraduate students with industry partners to explore the interplay between creativity and technology for education, industry and society.
Located in the heart of London’s creative hub, the Design District, its impossible not to be inspired by the passionate minds, creative sparks and rich culture that surrounds you.
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