If you have an undergraduate degree and one and a half years professional experience in any recognize d discipline from any part of the world and wish to discover what design can do to help create viable futures, then this program is for you. Recent graduates can gain entry via a Graduate Certificate (one semester full time).
Applications will be considered from any of the design professions – architecture, urban design, landscape design, interior architecture, industrial design, fashion design, graphics and animation, or from fine arts, film-making, music or theatre. Graduates will also be welcomed from other areas such as IT, engineering, management, the sciences or law.
The program, commencing in July 2008, is one year full time (with and additional one semester honours option). It will be a mixture of coursework and research and will be led by Adjunct Professor Tony Fry, who is an internationally recognized design theorist, writer and educator. As a designer he has worked on award winning projects in many fields of design.
If you share a concern for viable futures for humanity, the biodiversity of life and the environments (natural and artificial) that support the forms of life we need and value, this Griffith University program will be very relevant to your personal and career development. You will also have a desire to be a leader of positive change.
The key requirement for you, as a program applicant, is to have a commitment to change towards sustainability by design.
Program places will be limited in number.
Careers Statement
The Master of Design Futures degree has been created to provide professionals from a very broad range of professions (within and beyond design) with an understanding of innovative design knowledge, strategies and practices that will place them in a position of leadership in delivering change toward an economy and culture able to significantly advance sustainability. As such it can be viewed as a means of: individual professional development; the provision of practice change leaders; and the basis for entrepreneurial new practice development.