Master of Design Futures
Master of Design Futures
The world is changing rapidly, and the pace of innovation and digital disruption is accelerating. Despite this, many of the social, cultural, political and professional structures that support our communities have remained static and unchallenged for generations. Our education, healthcare and primary production systems, our workplaces and our products need…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The world is changing rapidly, and the pace of innovation and digital disruption is accelerating. Despite this, many of the social, cultural, political and professional structures that support our communities have remained static and unchallenged for generations. Our education, healthcare and primary production systems, our workplaces and our products need to keep up. We need design leaders, design strategists and design thinkers to dismantle these structures, and to dissect and solve some of our most complex problems. Whether it’s rethinking the way remote communities access healthcare, creating a less risk-averse corporate culture, or developing a more individualised education system, our world needs more innovative thinkers and communicators; people with the knowledge and skills to design our future.
The Master of Design Futures is an accelerated, graduate course for working professionals. It is suitable for both designers and non-designers who are looking to transition into new design practices and for those wanting to advance their careers in strategic leadership roles.
In this flexible and self-directed course, you will benefit from experiential learning practices as you develop the strategic skills and tools required for leadership. Empathic research, journey mapping, rapid prototyping and storytelling are all tools that you will learn to use in your problem solving process.
This course will equip you to be a design leader by:
Extending your practice in strategic, communication and service design
Framing this new practice in the context of designing social, cultural and economic futures
Introducing you to a close-knit global network of design professionals and different orders of design problems
Helping you to identify and articulate contributions you make to organisations, as well as the value that design brings to business, government and society.
Career
The Master of Design Futures has been developed to help build the skills required for senior management and leadership roles in design-conscious organisations. These include traditional design businesses, as well as a growing number of public and private organisations that use human centred design to achieve their long and short-term goals.
Graduate careers include:
Design Leader
Director, Human Centred Design
Design Strategist
Service Design Lead
Chief Experience Officer
These careers exist under various job titles in many sectors including:
Corporate Retail
Banking
Finance
Health
Government
Not-for-profit
Cultural organisations
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Since its establishment in 1887, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) has been meeting the needs of the community surrounding it. Originally a Working Men’s College, RMIT showed its flexibility during World War Two, training over 20,000 servicemen in communications to help with the war effort.Now, it is a true pioneer in international education, championing cross-border study opportunities with campuses in various countries. Granted formal university status in 1992, RMIT is ranked 21st in the world for universities that are less than 50 years old.RMIT is the largest higher education institution in Australia, currently with more than 82,000 students. With nearly 20% of those students coming from overseas, it is a university that truly welcomes diversity and is a melting pot of different cultures. RMIT has three campuses in Vietnam, a European hub in Barcelona, an office in Indonesia, and partners with 200+ institutions in 42 countries to provide study opportunities worldwide.
