Program Overview

Expand your horizons and innovate for social good by applying your creative skills and imagination to foster a healthy society at the intersection of design, creativity and health.

• Develop skills, knowledge and capability to pursue opportunities and conduct independent creative research arising from the intersection of design and health.
• Expand your professional aspirations and innovate by synergising your creative practice with critical and conceptual thinking around design and health.
• Develop or expand your professional relationships and networks.
• Receive teaching from world class design for health researchers and practitioners

Placing emphasis on personal research and practice, this course provides a stimulating and supportive environment within which you can develop your interests and ideas at the intersection of design and health. Our academic staff are design specialists, researchers and practitioners with expertise across all facets of design and health who will support and encourage you to expand your creative practice. The course is part of an interdisciplinary Postgraduate design programme which promotes an ethos of social and cultural innovation.

How you learn

The initial modules focus on developing your critical understanding of design thinking, theoretical studies, research methods, and making practices. You will also gain knowledge of the diverse range of concepts, approaches, issues and debates related to design for health research and practice and related fields. These modules are taught by staff from the Department of Art & Design and the Lab4Living. Building upon the skills and knowledge gained from the initial modules and supported by key specialist staff, you will embark on an independent practice-based research project in the final module of the programme.

Learning is supported through:

• Immersive learning alongside peers in a studio environment
• Practice-based research
• Project work
• Individual and group tutorials
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Constructive critical debates