MDes Design Futures

Royal College of Art

The MDes Design Futures at the RCA equips you with research, strategic and entrepreneurial design skills to address complex social and environmental challenges through futures thinking. You immerse yourself in core units on research methodologies, complex systems and envisioning futures before developing your own independent research project grounded in ethical and resilient interventions. Alongside a wide range of electives including design resilience, ethics and innovation, you learn to visualise alternative futures, engage people in debate, and shape purposeful change through design practice and foresight.