Is this for you?

• Are you a curious, open-minded individual who thrives on exploring new ideas and uncovering hidden opportunities in the world around you?
• Do you flourish when collaborating with others?
• Are you prepared to breakdown old ways of thinking and operating?
• Does interdisciplinary thinking come naturally to you?

Just finished your bachelor’s or master’s programme?

You have finished a bachelor’s or master’s programme in a specific discipline (natural sciences, social sciences, design sciences, applied sciences, humanities, …)  and you want to expand your knowledge and skills in a cross-disciplinary setting. You want to experience how design techniques can enrich your disciplinary knowledge and arm you with individual skills to act in a collaborative setting.

You have some years of experience?

You have several years of experience in an organization, and you feel the need to expand your knowledge on driving change and inspiring teams towards transformation. You want to experience and master the methodologies to address innovation, future opportunities, and complex problem solving. You want to learn how service design and systemic design techniques can help you in your daily practice, and how to develop a purposeful leadership attitude towards organizational change.

You will learn how to tackle organizational and societal challenges by mastering methodologies that enable you to reframe problems and think in terms of opportunities and solutions. You’ll gain practical skills to analyze complexity, understand systems, and design impactful interventions to address real-world issues with confidence and creativity.

You will develop hands-on expertise in generating ideas and co-creating solutions, learning to navigate the uncertainty and ambiguity that comes with innovation.

Through this learning journey, you’ll understand how to build and leverage networks to drive systemic change. You’ll gain the skills to foster collaboration across disciplines and act as a catalyst for transformation. Beyond technical skills, you’ll cultivate a proactive mindset, and the personal agency needed to take meaningful, constructive initiatives within organizations, innovation consultancies, or broader societal contexts.

If you're already a designer, feel free to skip this part. However, if you're new to the world of design, here’s what you need to know.

For many, design is synonymous with stylish objects or beautiful lifestyle products, but design is also a process and a mindset. Over time, it has transformed into a creative problem-solving discipline, applying its methods, tools, and techniques to areas beyond products, designing services, processes, organizations, and entire systems. Today, design drives innovation, delivering solutions not only in physical artifacts but also in intangible applications across diverse fields.

What sets design apart is its interdisciplinary approach, integrating human-centered, economic, sustainability and technological perspectives into comprehensive solutions. Design thrives on creative synthesis, going beyond merely analyzing the world as it is to envision and experimenting how it could be. It excels in lateral thinking, reframing challenges, generating ideas, prototyping solutions, and validating them to ensure the best possible implementation in the real world.

At its core, design flourishes collaboration and co-creation, emphasizing teamwork and synergy to address challenges from a holistic perspective. Yet, when it comes to solving complex problems, no single discipline can succeed alone. True transformation relies on the combined expertise of many fields working together toward shared goals.

While this programme won’t make you an experienced designer in a year, it will equip you with the skills to expand your disciplinary expertise, adopt a design mindset, and broaden your perspective on how to create meaningful change.