The circular economy requires the redesign of everything - from materials, to products, to services, to policies, to narratives and communications, to systems and environments. This course creates a stage for the exploration of the complex issues to interrogate and provoke sustainable systemic change. It provides the actionable methodology, tools, practice and theory for learners to design a different future.
Integrating a network of international organisations, charities and companies who are making change happen, this pathway supports embodied learning to encourage acting, as well as making and thinking. Learners connect the materials, the production, the practices , the polices and systems to opportunities for regeneration, rethinking, and reforming.
The role of the designer in the circular economy is of paramount importance, as is the integration of circular economy principles into design practice and thinking. This course supports learners to fabricate critical and vital dialogues in policy, narratives, industry, amongst manufacturers, customers and consumers. It creates the stage for behavioural change, new attitudes, knowledge and skill sets which will shape the future.
The 60-credit Graduate Diploma programme encourages participants to integrate research, creative practice and contemporary methods, theory and contexts.
The modules seek to prepare students, from the broadest range of creative backgrounds, with the practical and theoretical means to develop contemporary design practice and theory within a specialist award, while benefitting from a broader interdisciplinary creative discourse and community of practice.
