University Of Warwick, WMG Department
MSc Design for Sustainability
STEMFormat
Full timeDuration
12 monthsTuition fee
37460 GBPStart date
28 September, 2026Application deadline
01 August, 2026The MASc Design for Sustainability is an interdisciplinary programme offered jointly by WMG and the department for Design Studies within the School for Cross-Faculty Studies. Benefitting from the expertise of two academic departments at Warwick, students will combine industry and commercial knowledge with holistic creativity to develop design-led, sustainable solutions to global challenges.
Innovation is the engine of growth and positive change, but building a prosperous future for the environment, society, and the economy requires sustainability to lead the way. To embed sustainable practices across our lives, businesses, and systems, we need professionals who can strategically integrate sustainability at every stage of enterprise.
This MASc prepares you with the skills, experience, and mindset to design sustainable solutions to make real impact. You will learn to apply systemic design thinking, circular and regenerative design, and emerging technologies to real-world challenges, while developing the creativity and commercial awareness needed to turn ideas into practical outcomes. Through hands-on projects with peers, academics, and industry, you will build a strong portfolio that showcases both vision and practical skills. The programme will equip you to lead sustainable transformation across sectors, within both established organisations and new ventures.
Key themes:
- Systemic and Sustainable Design:Apply the latest theories and methodologies to foster sustainable innovation, from ideation to implementation. Develop effective collaboration and problem-solving skills within interdisciplinary teams.
- Systems, Circular Economy, and Regeneration:Design for long-term resilience by understanding the interconnected ecological, social, and economic systems. Focus on waste elimination, resource loops, and the restoration of natural systems.
- Sustainable Commercialisation:Explore how enterprises can create meaningful impact. Learn strategies to align business goals with sustainable practices, promote social responsibility, and maximise positive outcomes.
- Emerging and Evolving Technologies:Stay at the forefront of innovation by exploring cutting-edge technologies and their evolution, including disruptive and displaced technologies shaping the future.
Through these key themes, this programme will support you in shaping change across the environment, society, and business.
The MASc in Design for Sustainability has been created in response to growing industrial demand for graduates who can drive sustainable, creative, and systems-based solutions in product and process design. The programme has been developed collaboratively with industrial leaders and the University of Warwick's leading design community.
The course uses a variety of assessment methods across modules. These may include reports (both topic-based and reflective), individual and group presentations and discussions, design artefacts, critical evaluation or commentary pieces, case-study exercises, simulation reports, CRITS (critical reviews), design portfolios, and business or consultancy reports.
Assessments have been designed not only to assess your achievement in meeting the course learning outcomes in an academically sound manner, but also contribute to preparing you with the requisite competencies required for employment.
