Social Design

The MA enables students to understand the new social needs of the contemporary age, exploring new scenarios for the global designer. When it is aimed at defining social development strategies, the design is able to valorise human and natural resources, to drive sustainable innovation, to promote local communities development and to activate social evolution dynamics, through a global “coopetitive” approach. The Master of Arts deepens the student’s knowledge with highly specialized and advanced studies, allowing the student to define his skills and making possible a first-hand experience within the professional context through field experiences.FIRST YEARIt combines the design with social activation projects and the study of the relation among humans, environment and technology, investigating meanings and values of social responsibility related to community design, environmental design, product design, communication design, anthropology, and sociology.SECOND YEARIt enables students to develop and manage the complexity of a social design project applied to a real case study, through social design labs and courses in ecology and economy, Co-design and public policies, Art direction.