SOCIAL INNOVATION DESIGN PROGRAMME

Overview

The Social Innovation Design Programme brings exceptional university students from diverse backgrounds internationally to engage in lectures, seminars, workshops, and visits that stimulate meaningful knowledge exchange and explores the potential of design to create transformative social change. This programme brings artists, designers, and engineers together to collaboratively think about and discuss how design thinking and innovation can be applied to tackle social issues and benefit societies. Students will explore and analysis products, services, and systems that are sustainable, intelligent, efficient, and effective. At the end of the programme, students will develop a community-based project prototype and present to a panel of advisers who will help them to refine their project and its engagement with society.
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Participants will live and study in University of Oxford colleges and work with leading figures in social innovation across academia, the arts world, and industry. The programme includes visits to the major museums and galleries in London and Oxford and meeting with the curators and directors of these institutions. The programme’s knowledge exchange seminars focus on small group discussions and combines research with design practices to foster critical thinking and interdisciplinary skills.

Course Content

Lectures

Thought provoking lectures that examine key aspects of social innovation design from different perspectives.

Seminars

Small group seminars with course tutors to discuss and look in depth at each group’s work, development, and critical thinking.

Workshops

Interactive workshops to further hone, inspire, and develop new skills.

Museum Visits

Guided visits to the world-renowned museums and galleries in London and Oxford that compliments the course theme.

• Saatchi “BA 2119 Flight of the Future” special exhibition
• Tate Modern “Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life” special exhibition
• Ashmolean Museum, Object handling session and Private Collection
• Victoria & Albert Museum

Group Critiques

Group discussions and reflections focused on depth of analysis and critical studies.

Group Reflections

Group critiques to both challenge, support, and promote the growth of individuals' works.

Final Presentation

End-of-course community-based group project presentation to a panel of advisers.

Tutors

Institutional Engagements