The aims of this module are to:

• Critically investigate and apply principles of speculative design as methods for imagining, challenging, and articulating alternative social and environmental futures.
• Construct narrative image-based works - including sequential, interactive, and hybrid visual forms - that communicate complex ideas through research-informed storytelling.
• Evolve Illustrative design for emerging technologies - including immersive environments and motion-based image making - as tools for creating interactive, experiential, or future-oriented visual communication.
• Evaluate the ethical, cultural, political, and societal implications of design futures.

The aims of this module are to:

• Critically design and justify a research-informed, practice-led enquiry by situating an emerging creative practice within relevant societal, cultural, or organisational contexts, and by identifying meaningful issues, gaps, and opportunities for further exploration.
• Identify, engage, and collaborate with stakeholders, partners, and communities through considered communication, negotiation, and cocreation methods, strengthening professionalism and interdisciplinary working aligned with contemporary creative industries.
• Develop advanced ethical awareness, including completion of ethics training, preparation of ethical documentation, and the application of responsible methods for consent, participation, safeguarding, and data management in creative and applied research settings.
• Construct a coherent methodological framework that synthesises primary and secondary research, with creative experimentation, culminating in a rigorous, feasible, and academically grounded Major Project Proposal.