Design (Social Design) PolyU Design

Overview

Since design is transdisciplinary by nature, students admitted to the Design (Social Design) program at PolyU Design will acquire a variety of interdisciplinary design thinking, making and envisioning skills, which are developed from the traditional, but goes beyond merely two-dimensional, three dimensional and four-dimensional design

Aims and Objectives 

Dedicated to the promotion of social and cultural sustainability, the programme focuses on the realisation of social innovations and civic goals through the framework of design thinking and solution prototyping. The programme aims to:

• Augment students’ (empathic) understanding of social needs/changes from real-life perspectives.
• Introduce students to methods for social observation, ethnographic design research and codesigning practices. 
• Engage students with outside partners to address social issues and develop design resolutions. 
• Inaugurate designerly thinking into the professional practices of non-design disciplines. 

• Prototype and realise design solutions for sustainable and positive social change.

Career Prospects 

Graduates of the BA (Hons) in Design (Social Design) are expected to become project or service designers and/or creative coordinators in the field of 

• social and cultural business
• non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 
• multidisciplinary design consultancies, etc.