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Master Eco-Social Design We design solutions for the well-being of current and future communities and explore new roles for designers in the eco-social transformation.

We are committed to creating sustainable, equitable, and resilient futures. The self, the commons, and the planet are at the center of our design interventions to cope with today’s systemic challenges. We apply collaborative and practice-based design approaches to address social, environmental, and economic issues.
Eco-Social Designers explore the wicked problems of living within the planet’s ecological limits. They navigate complex systems, collaborate with human and non-human actors, and design interventions at different scales – from policymaking to prototyping regulations, community activism, and individual actions.

We offer ambitious Designers an intense full or part-time study program to develop their transformative design practice with our partners from research, civil society and industry.

We ask questions, engage stakeholders, experiment, and prototype solutions. How might we…

understand and foster change in complex, adaptive systems?
contribute to the most pressing challenges of our time as designers?
foster curiosity and experimentation?
design for cultural differences and inclusion?
design for environments where human and non-human beings thrive?
shape a culture of participation and designing with others?
facilitate collaborative problem solving?
prototype policies for resilient communities?
evaluate outcomes and facilitate transition?
design for nature-based solutions?"

Our lecturers support students in the following areas:

System Literacy
Future Literacy
Environmental Literacy
Social Innovation
Design in socio-political systems
Design Research
Natural Sciences and socio-ecological systems
Strategic and Systemic Design
Participatory Design

The MA programmes in Design, Digital Ideation, Eco-Social Design and Service Design are taught in English.

Fields of activity
Thanks to their competencies in systems thinking, social and environmental policymaking, sustainability design and impact assessment, graduates can lead design processes in cross-sector innovation. In cooperation with clients from industry, research, public and cultural sectors, they generate sustainable value for people and society.

Registration
The application deadline is every March. If you are interested in attending the Master of Arts in Eco-Social Design programme, contact us any time: we will be happy to review your application. In select cases, admission is possible after the application deadline.

Contact
Jan-Christoph Zoels – Head, MA in Design programs
Jan-Christoph.Zoels@hslu.ch
Karin Fink – Co-Lead, MA Eco-Social Design
Karin.Fink@hslu.ch
Andreas Unteidig – Co-Lead, MA Eco-Social Design
Andreas.Unteidig@hslu.ch

Location
Hochschule Luzern
Design & Kunst
745 Viscosistadt
Nylsuisseplatz 1
CH-6020 Luzern-Emmenbrücke
hslu.ch/master-eco-social-design