MSc. in Strategy & Design for the Anthropocene
ESC Clermont Business School
Key Information
Campus location
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 semesters
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 12,950 / per year
Application deadline
31 Jul 2024
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
Introduction
Transforming Organizations Facing A Big Challenge
Today’s reference to sustainable development as a response to environmental "crisis" no longer allows us to grasp the deep transformations witnessed by the Earth’s entry into a new geological and climatic epoch: the Anthropocene. This term refers to a new geological period dating back to the Industrial Revolution marked by the impact of human activities. Well beyond the design of a new product, a new service, or a new business model, design today needs to tackle the issue of strategic anticipation that is impacting all socio-economic activities. It is precisely to address this imperative and the growing demand from students who are increasingly concerned about these challenges that ESC Clermont Business School and Strate Ecole de Design are offering this new program which is the first of its kind in the world.
Objectives
Training professionals from different fields mainly associated with the design and strategic management; developing means of action to transform organizations; adopting a prospective approach and taking into account ecological disruptions in the Anthropocene Era. This program responds to strong societal demand from organizations, as well as the academic world, from both students and scholars alike.
Value Proposition
- Addressing the Anthropocene through the prism of design, integrating the strategy of the humanities and the strategy of organizations.
- In-depth reframing of issues historically associated with sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
- Taking into account the contributions of environmental, climate, and engineering sciences, especially for decision-making and organizational transformation.
Admissions
Curriculum
Semester 1
Learning Expedition: Inquiring Critical Zones
- General introduction, 6 hours
- Learning Expeditions and Inquiry
Critical Zones and Earth-System. Micro & Macro Levels: New Inquiry Methods and Protocols
- Introduction to Inquiry, 32 hours
- Investigating Territories in Critical Ecological Zones, 8 hours
- New Inquiry Protocols, 11 hours
- Archiving and Documenting Inquiries Workshop, 6 hours
Critical Zones and Earth-System. Macro Level: Diagnosis and Modelling
- Reports & Narrative of The Anthropocene, 27 hours
- Introduction to Complex Systems Modelling, 27 hours
- Scales of the Anthropocene: Territories, Milieux, Controversies, 6 hours
Semester 2
Strategical Foundations for the Anthropocene: Technics, Institutions and Organizations
- A Deep History of the Anthropocene, 18 hours
- Anthropology of Nature, 6 hours
- Towards and Beyond the Organizational World: a Historical Perspective, 15 hours
- An Analysis of Institutions and Economics, 9 hours
- Strategy, 21 hours
- Organizations in the Anthropocene, 12 hours
- Innovation in the Anthropocene, 27 hours
- Technics in the Anthropocene, 42 hours
- Complex Systems and Environment: a Case Study, 13 hours
Learning How To Do Things (Micro Level): Community-Engaged Design
- Rural Community-Engaged Learning Expedition
- Institutions, Corporations, Territories, Risk, Vision and Scenario Mapping, 24 hours
- Designing, 42 hours
- New Arts & Crafts and Local Productive Models – Workshops, 24 hours
- Biotic and Human/Non-Human Communities Design 24+ Workshop, 6 hours
- Designing Engaged Design, 15 hours
- Esthetics and Experience, 12 hours
Designing Organizations for The Anthropocene
- Designing and Engineering at the Meso Level, 20 hours
- Environmental Accounting, New Metrics, and Territorial Metabolism, 27 hours
- Industrial Organizations and Arbitration Protocols, 6 hours
- Redesigning Business Models and Ecological Redirection, 9 hours
- Design of the Commons and Public Policy, 15 hours
- Designing “Entreprises à Mission”, 15 hours
- Designing Law, 12 hours
- Designing Negative Commons, 12 hours
Semester 3
Professional Mission & Thesis
- Master’s Thesis
- Oral Defense
- Company Assessment
Career Path and Internship
- Documenting Workshops
- Tools for Professionalization
- Designing Jobs and Business-Models
Program Outcome
MSc students will acquire new technical and operational skills to initiate transition policies within organizations that wish to implement change by making proactive, rapid and effective ecological redirections. They will also be trained in the processes, methods, and techniques that will enable them to design desirable futures within ecological, climatic, legal, social and political constraints. They will learn how to set up new forms of investigation to address unusual critical situations: accelerated changes in an ecosystem, the collapse of a resource or living environment, situations of scarcity, humanitarian and social crisis, strategic crisis, forward-looking strategies, etc.
“Tomorrow’s managers, engineers, and designers will have to be able to play a transformative role, proposing methods and engineering skills to «redirect», as you propose, the technological organizations and innovation projects, making them compatible with the ecological transition, or even radically reinventing them. We believe that the players in our ecosystem - and ourselves - may be interested in hosting your future students on a work-study (internship or apprenticeship) basis.”
Jacques-François Marchandise
General Delegate of the Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération
“I am convinced that the profile of the graduates of this Master of Science will be coveted on the job market, and in many sectors and that your training will be pioneering and is destined to show the way that others will inevitably follow.”
Matthieu Auzanneau
Director, The Shift Project (the transition carbon think tank)
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Career Opportunities
- Ecological transition design manager
- CSR manager
- Ecological transition consultant
- Territorial development manager
- Prospective manager
- Sustainable development manager