ma material futures encourages a wholly multi-disciplinary approach to design. through trans-disciplinary practice and collaboration you will explore how we will live in the future. by working with experts, taking risks and blurring the boundaries between design, science and technology, you will look beyond existing disciplines, anticipating the future needs, desires and challenges that we face in the 21st century. we believe that only by observing and analysing how we live today we can begin to explore how we might occupy tomorrow. considering the current and future context of design decisions is key to our ethos. we will encourage you to combine social, scientific, political, environmental, ecological and economic inquiry. these insights will help inform future design scenarios, material propositions and research-led speculations. taking materiality as the starting point of the design process – literally the things we can touch, feel, interact with and observe – we integrate high and low technological materials and processes. our students explore and come from a diverse range of disciplines. these include the worlds of fashion and architecture, as well as industrial, communication, textile, critical, digital and speculative design. we are committed to developing ethical material futures practices. to achieve this, we are working to embed ual's principles for climate, social and racial justice into the course.