Master's Degree in Strategic and Systemic Design for Futures

LCI Barcelona

This master’s degree prepares you to anticipate change, understand complexity, and design strategic interventions with real impact. It combines futures thinking, systems thinking, emerging technologies, and strategic design to transform organizations, communities, and ecosystems through a critical, creative, and actionable approach.

Throughout the master’s degree, you will work with advanced methodologies in futures thinking, systemic design, and applied strategy. You will learn to analyze complex systems, build scenarios, prototype interventions, and design viable roadmaps that connect vision, impact, and decision-making in real-world contexts.

Who is it for?

Designers and professionals in business, innovation, public policy, or social impact seeking to apply strategic and systemic design to address complex challenges and anticipate futures.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze complex systems and identify dynamics, stakeholders, and emerging patterns.
• Apply futures thinking and strategic foresight to build scenarios and opportunities.
• Design interventions, services, and prototypes with systemic impact.
• Formulate viable strategies that connect future vision and real-world implementation.
• Communicate complex scenarios through narratives and strategic visualization.

Upon completion of the master’s degree, you will be able to integrate strategy, design, and futures thinking, specializing in:

Strategic Futures Design: Design scenarios, visions, and future criteria to guide strategic decision-making.

Systems & Service Design: Analyze and redesign systems, services, and experiences through a multi-layered approach.

Innovation Strategy: Translate future insights into applicable strategies and viable roadmaps.

Futures Prototyping & Storytelling: Transform abstract futures into tangible prototypes, narratives, and experiences.

Diploma & Accreditation:

Upon completing the program, you will obtain the Master's Diploma in Strategic and Systemic Design for Futures, issued by LCI Barcelona. Backed by the LCI Education international network, this qualification certifies advanced, practical, and interdisciplinary training oriented toward leading innovation, strategy, and transformation processes in complex contexts.