📚About the Program
The Master Programme in Design + Change is an advanced-level two-year programme within Design, the main field of study.
WHY? Exploring new roles of designers:
Design involves creativity, criticality and transformation. Design calls into question the state of things and makes an impact. Design challenges preconceptions, prejudices, norms, and stereotypes and provokes emotions, thoughts, sensibilities and actions. Design can enhance our lives and our relationships to the world. It can make us attentive and empathic to the ecological and socio-cultural systems in which we live. In a world of many challenges, design can be an agent for sustainable change.
In shaping our futures, designers will face unprecedented challenges compared to what conventional designers faced during the twentieth century. In fact, the role of the designer will and should change. Instead of only designing for mass production, which was important during the first phase of industrialisation, designers of futures must handle multiple roles and increasingly complex issues. As agents for change, we believe designers will play key roles in shaping futures of sustainability and we are looking for those sharing this vision to join us in exploring it together.
HOW? Transdisciplinary study in design:
On the Design + Change MFA Programme at Linnaeus University (LNU) we challenge the traditional role of the designer, working across disciplinary and media boundaries to define new roles that meet contemporary and future needs. For design to confront the crises we are now facing, we need to work together with other academic disciplines and cultural practices and in partnerships with professional designers, community organisations, businesses, activists and governmental bodies.
Students on the Design + Change MFA programme can choose to extend their existing knowledge in a specific design discipline/field or explore new ones. The programme focusses on artistic and experimental processes and artistic research. Students will develop their capacity for critical and creative reflection in making well rounded and futures-oriented design proposals and?purpose-driven interventions. Particular attention is paid to contemporary and emerging design disciplines such as critical, disruptive and speculative design and design in climate and ecological emergency, while referring to other design practices such as social design, metadesign, design activism and design for social innovation. Furthermore, students are introduced to and practice relevant methods for questioning the current state of things, opening up to ways of thinking and shaping futures creatively and differently through shifting paradigms such as the change from human-centred to life-centred design processes.
The programme consists of a progression of project-based courses in which students encounter specific themes and design fields concluding with an independent thesis project in the last semester of the programme. Developing transdisciplinary perspectives remains at the core of the programme and students have the opportunity to independently initiate and develop collaborations with external partners.
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AUTUMN 2023
Växjö, Full-time, Campus
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Master’s level
Syllabus
Full-time, Campus
English
Växjö
28 Aug, 2023 - 08 Jun, 2025
January 16
Some courses and programmes will accept late applications.
LNU-F1935
General entry requirements for studies at the second level and specific entry requirements:
90 credits in the main field of study, Design (including an independent project of at least 15 credits) or the equivalent,
Approved portfolio and letter of intent.
English B/6 or the equivalent.
Individual Assessment
142,500 SEK
570,000 SEK
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Career
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