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 individualized 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. Emphatic 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.

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 centered design to achieve their long and short-term goals.

Graduate careers include:

• Design Leader
• Director, Human Centered 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