43 Sustainable Design Masters Degree Programs

With the fashion industry facing a decisive transition, the Master's degree in Fashion Design, Technology and Innovation proposes an approach to the sector based on sustainability, creativity, and experimentation. Recognizing the necessity to radically rethink fashion, this master's degree encourages students to develop imaginative solutions to transform the current dynamics of the industry and contribute to a new scenario that combines environmental balance and social commitment with the economic viability and the use of cutting-edge technologies.

Kingston University’s Sustainable Design MA will help you channel your creativity towards building a more sustainable, inclusive and equitable society. Studying this masters in Sustainable Design will give you the critical thinking skills and practical experience you need to succeed in further study or employment.

Shape a sustainable future with the master’s program "Design for Sustainable Future." Combining design, management, and environmental engineering, it equips professionals to drive societal and environmental change. Gain skills in circular economy, sustainable practices, and collaborative design for impactful solutions.

The Master in Sustainable Fashion Design shapes students into fashion designers with a strong awareness of ethical and sustainable fashion. The curriculum promotes an in-depth understanding of creative and design aspects combined with a thorough technical knowledge of production and industrialisation, ensuring an ethical procedure at every stage.

The Master of Building Performance and Sustainable Design will see you develop advanced technical, collaborative and cultural competencies to drive world-leading environmental outcomes in interdisciplinary teams and projects for a low-carbon built environment.

The new Master’s course in Design for Sustainability and Regeneration offers theoretical insights into current concepts and approaches for designing sustainable solutions, offering practical experience in applying strategies and tools of ecodesign and design for sustainability. It has been estimated that 80 percent of a product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage, So the designer needs proper tools and needs to be aware of the environmental risks or benefits of their choices and appropriate strategies to encourage design decisions that meet the need to produce to more sustainable standards, which are increasingly necessary and socially demanded.

You’ll be educated to become a designer in sustainable innovation and to develop the required skills to drive creativity in a multi-disciplinary team.

The Master of Arts in Responsible Fashion Design - Circular Practices for the Fashion Industry, aims to train conscious designers, able to evaluate the systemic implications of projects and positively influence their impacts through the adoption of sustainable practices.

The Specialized Master’s Degree® Bioresource Composites: Innovation and Eco-design trains future high-level executives in the field of innovative composite materials that take into account the challenges of sustainable development.

This program offers a studio-based, interdisciplinary approach to design, tackling societal challenges. Established and innovative design concepts are incorporated in a unique collaborative setup across campuses.

Critically analyse the challenges faced by urban areas in designing sustainable, inclusive, and healthy urban environments, evaluating the effectiveness of various mitigation strategies. Students taking this programme will be at the cutting edge of this transition toward a more sustainable planet.

In a world marked by uncertainty and complexity, design plays a key role, BAU’s Master in Design Research guides students in understanding and questioning the present and encourage them to create transformative proposals with creativity and a critical spirit.

This program aims at providing a multidisciplinary background for architects, with a special focus on environmental sustainability and landscape design. The concept of sustainability is associated with a high-quality transformation of the landscape, from the macro-scale of urban planning to the micro-scale of technical details, how the varied scales connect and interrelate with each other.

The MA City Design envisions new concepts of city and urban life by placing design speculation at the core of social innovation. City life is undergoing momentous change. New forms of urban development and technologically driven forms of social innovation are transforming the way we live, work, reproduce and take care of the world around us, producing new lines of social solidarity as well as new sites of social conflict. Yet most of the methods used to research and design cities have resisted change, thus limiting our ability to perceive relevant changes and conceive radically different futures.

Our Master’s Degree in Design X Other Species responds to this need by adopting transdisciplinary design as a cultural and ecological practice aimed at fostering conditions of coexistence for, with, and by other living species.

The Master in Entrepreneurship and Design for Sustainability is your gateway to harnessing these prospects. This program fosters an entrepreneurial mindset that views sustainability as a powerful opportunity rather than a challenge. Through this Master’s program, you will learn to create, craft, and launch innovative ideas using cutting-edge design approaches.