Content and structure

CAS Design Cultures – Actively shape society, culture and systems

The CAS Design Cultures programme offers you the opportunity to immerse yourself in innovative living and cultural spaces. These spaces are characterised by forward-looking economic, social, ecological and cultural strategies. The course aims to examine and help shape these environments within the context of design attitudes and practices, in order to encourage engagement with the malleability of one's own culture and surroundings.

Structure

The CAS Design Cultures programme is completed over a period of three to six semesters. The start and end dates of the course can be determined individually. Participation in a study trip forms the core of the programme; the CAS trip is supplemented by compulsory and elective modules of varying intensity and duration and the associated performance assessments. In an individual thesis, participants reflect on their personal experiences and challenges in applying design-oriented approaches and attitudes in an unfamiliar context. 

Target audience

The CAS Design Cultures is intended for people in any function or sector who who want to acquire a designerly mindset and approach and specifically apply and reflect on this in other or future-oriented contexts and cultures:

  • Designers and creatives who increasingly give their design activities a more international focus.
  • People who are curious about applying selected concepts from ecosystems to the areas of collaboration, innovation, team and organizational culture. 
  • Specialists and project managers from all sectors who want to familiarize themselves with international living and design cultures.
  • Managers who wnat to experience the innovative potential of design in selected innovative contexts.

CAS with prospects

The CAS Design Cultures is part of the modular continuing education programme MAS Strategic Design. This MAS consists of various CAS programmes. The individual programmes can be taken separately and in any order. Within three to six years, three CAS programmes and the MAS final module can be combined to form a full MAS degree. 

Die Grafik zeigt die Titel der sechs CAS-Programme im Portfolio des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs MAS Strategic Design an der ZHdK.

CAS Design Thinking
Mindset, Models and Methods for Transformative Projects in Organisations and Society

CAS Facilitating Innovation
From the Idea to Implementation – Supporting Teams and Organisations Effectively

CAS Design Leadership
Leadership Skills for Strategic Designers and Creative Leaders

CAS Crafting Futures
Imagine Futures, Create Spaces of Possibility and Move Organisations

CAS Design Cultures
Design Between Attitude and Action – Co-Shaping Society, Culture and Systems

MAS Strategic Design
Simple Principles for Complex Challenges

More information about the MAS Strategic Design: 
MAS Strategic Design