This module explores future directions of design and allows you to develop your awareness of the complex interrelationships between design and others specialism's. In the module, we utilise design as the driver for such discourse but engage with many perspectives beyond those familiar to designers. The module engages with debates that are not bounded by traditional disciplinary concerns and seeks to develop an advanced level of critical and creative engagement with complex societal challenges. The curriculum supports applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions. This module provides you with the opportunity to develop an understanding of the scope, nature and role of design in business and the mechanisms by which it is employed.