Do you want to create what the world really needs? With the Master in Social Design you can become a designer for eco-social change and learn to develop innovative design ideas for the social challenges of our time.
All Facts at a Glance
Degree:
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Start:
1st April; 1st October
Model:
full-time
Language:
English
ECTS:
120
Curriculum:
Info:
accredited,
without NC
Duration:
4 semesters/2 years
Location:
Berlin
Costs:
from €790 per month
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Show costs split
Portfolio
2 - 3 creative works on the topic "Why change?" (films, texts, photos, illustrations, etc.)
Learn more about Social Campaigns & Sustainability
The Master's program in Social Design and Sustainable Innovation challenges the existing system and thinks design from the perspective of social and global challenges. The aim is to educate a new generation of designers who can innovate and think critically. You will work with methods such as social design thinking, cooperation, co-creation and other qualitative research methods. Your overarching goals are fairness, transparency and sustainability. Social design, social campaigning, corporate design, interaction design, socially engaged art, digital innovation, exhibition and event design, design practice in the context of visual communication, editorial design, photography, film and UX/UI design as well as design thinking form the cornerstones of the program. Futurology, cultural participation and cultures of care are also integrated into the program.
Become a Director, Producer, Motion Designer
Social Design and Sustainable Innovation can significantly change cultural and business organisations, leading to more authentic and digital innovation. Professional skills are derived from mastering the respective design disciplines paired with combined methodologies of social change.
Graduates take up traditional and new design professions with an extended and scientifically sound design, thinking and action approach.
They work as
- art directors,
- designers,
- consultants,
- project managers,
- interaction Designer,
- change managers, and
- curators for companies and institutions.
The Master of Arts degree also prepares students for a doctoral or PhD degree programme, which opens the way, in particular, to academic careers in teaching and research.
Your modules
In the initial semesters of your Master's programme in Social Design & Sustainable Innovation, you will delve deeply into the fields of social design and design research. You will explore the connections between art, society, and change, as well as learn how to develop impactful social campaigns. Additionally, you will be introduced to marketing and branding strategies.
As you progress through your studies, the focus will shift towards design thinking, covering its various stages: research, synthesis, creation, realisation, and prototyping. Your programme will be complemented by several internships, culminating in your Master's thesis.
We would be happy to provide you with further information, including the complete curriculum.
Your curriculum
4 Semester
120 ECTS
1st semester
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Social Design Science + Practices A
5 -
Design Research
5 -
Social Campaigning
5 -
Art, Society + Change
5 -
Marketing and Branding
5 -
Profession and Best Practice I
5
2nd semester
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Social Design Science + Practices B
5 -
Sustainable Innovation I
5 -
Sustainable Innovation II
5 -
Social Design Internship
5 -
Sociology and Branding
5 -
Profession and Best Practice II
5
3rd semester
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Design Thinking / Research
5 -
Design Thinking / Synthesis and Creation
5 -
Design Thinking / Realisation and Prototyping
5 -
Social Design Manifesto + Portfolio
5 -
Design Practices
5 -
Profession and Best Practice III
5
4th semester
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Master Thesis + Colloquium
30
Projects from the Social Design & Sustainable Innovation degree programme
Design thinking as a method of social innovation
Students are designing a community space in a refugee camp in Lebanon. They are using design thinking processes to design the space in such a way that it has an activating effect and can generate creative and positive impulses.
Strangeness and foreignness | "This is (not) my story."
German and Lebanese students deal with the topic of "foreignness and strangeness" in interdisciplinary workshops and create essays, films, photo series, graphics and installations that reflect the reality of life for refugees in Germany and Lebanon.
Collaboration with 32bit - a social design startup
32bit is a social design startup founded by alumni of the Social Design Master's programme. 32bit offers a fully equipped mobile dental practice to close gaps in medical care in rural areas - this is what drives them: Our vision is a future in which justice is the standard: a world in which everyone - regardless of age, place of residence or state of health - has fair and equal access to high-quality dental services. In an intensive co-creation process, the social design students developed a new corporate design for mobile dentistry. A prototype is already conquering the streets.
Experimental design - SRH Campus Berlin project
In the Experimental Design course, the Social Design class worked at the interface between digital and analog space. In this case, the students were tasked with exploring the new campus in Berlin Neukölln and thinking about the future with experimental design solutions. The initial question was: How can social design change the atmosphere of a space and promote creativity, self-efficacy and inclusion? The first step was to analyze the problems and identify opportunities by means of needs assessments. In a next step, experimental design solutions were developed in teams and implemented digitally and as prototypes.
Project in the field of Social Design Thinking
In the search for a sustainable future, students on the M.A. Social Design and Sustainable programme worked with the association Deutschland 2030 neu denken e.V. to develop design solutions for an exhibition that would appeal to a broad target group.
The focus was on the future scenario of a climate-neutral Germany in 2045. Various aspects of overcoming climate change were dealt with using objects and installations, some of which are interactive. In particular, the designs reflect the areas mobility, science, work, economy, technology, health and the interaction of civil society.
Our CORE principle
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Today, soft and social skills are crucial in addition to hard skills and expertise. That's why SRH University's innovative, successful, and award-winning CORE principle promotes independent and active learning so that you can apply your knowledge directly to projects and your future career—for a clear competitive advantage.
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