ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering Master in Design for Emergent Futures
ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering

ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering

Master in Design for Emergent Futures

  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Madrid, Spain

Master degree

8 months

English

Full time

Oct 2026

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About : The Master in Design for Emergent Futures program focuses on innovative design methodologies for complex societal challenges. Students explore the intersection of design, technology, and sustainability over a period of two years. The program emphasizes collaborative learning through projects that tackle emergent issues in various environments.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue careers in diverse fields including sustainable design, urban planning, product design, and innovation consultancy. The program equips students with skills applicable to roles in government, NGOs, and private companies focused on impactful design solutions.

Master in Design for Emergent Futures

The world of the future is yet to be imagined and designed. Shaping societies, industries and behaviours is a task to tackle by those able to combine different disciplines and overview the present challenges to become agents for change and adaptation.

The Master in Design for Emergent Futures focuses on designing interventions in products, platforms, and deployments to produce new emergent futures.

We want to help you take design one step further by turning your innovative ideas into great solutions. By combining high technology, innovation, thinking and creativity for the future, designers, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, technology entrepreneurs, computer scientists and changemakers will provide the strategic vision and tools to become agents of change in multiple professional environments.