Develop your design innovation focus

Design innovation requires the ability to connect different perspectives and disciplines. Through core modules, optional modules, projects and research, you’ll develop your own focus while building a broad understanding of how design can create positive change.

You can develop deeper expertise in one of three interconnected thematic areas, or combine perspectives across them to create your own a distinctive pathway in design innovation profile aligned with your interests and career ambitions.

Strategic design and organisational leadership

Explore how design can support strategic thinking, innovation, leadership and managing transformation within organisations and wider systems. 

Sustainable futures and social transformation

Investigate how design can respond to environmental and social challenges, enabling imagining and managing more sustainable, inclusive and resilient futures. 

Creative industries and digital economies

Explore how design enables building and managing new experiences, creative opportunities and innovative practices through emerging technologies, digital transformation and evolving cultural contexts.

These areas are not fixed pathways, and the multiple electives allow you to create a learning journey aligned with your interests and career ambitions.

An impressive toolkit of skills

By the end of your master’s, you’ll be able to:

• Apply design approaches to address and manage complex challenges and identify innovation opportunities.
• Conduct design research and develop human-centred, value-driven solutions.
• Develop strategies for new products, services, experiences and organisational change.
• Collaborate across disciplines and communicate design-led ideas effectively.