MA Design Management is an interdisciplinary combination of creative and professional cultures. On this dynamic, project-led course, you’ll explore systems and team collaboration for positive social and technical change.

Course overview

Design and innovation are key drivers of change generating commercial, social, cultural and ecological value. MA Design Management will give you a leading-edge insight, and the mindset and problem-solving skills needed to effectively work in a constantly evolving global environment.

What to expect

The course combines academic study with creative and professional practice in a project-led curriculum that draws on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from business and the arts.

You’ll have the opportunity to pursue your own design research project; work on real-life business ideas and challenges and team up with fellow students and collaborators from design, business, marketing and IT backgrounds.

You’ll interrogate, through practical projects, a range of perspectives including design research methods; design thinking for the cultural and creative industries; branding; the role of creative interventions in brand communications; trend forecasting; strategies for the management of brand experiences; design for social needs and sustainability; project management; entrepreneurship and innovation; change management; and design leadership.

You will be equipped with a set of practical skills in project management, change management, enterprise, leadership, branding and critical writing and practice.

You will also have the opportunity to customise your studies through a major project according to your own particular design interests and career aspirations.