Language

Spanish

Start date

September 2026

Frequency

Evening

Duration

9 Months

Credits

60 ECTS

Drive the transformation of knowledge through facilitation and strategic design in collaborative and corporate environments.

The Master's in Learning Facilitation and Design Strategies is a program where you will learn how to reinvent practices, techniques, and methodologies for knowledge transfer, driving innovative ideas that promote transformation and social impact, particularly in large corporations and collaborative professional teams.

This program combines two core pillars: learning facilitation and design as a strategic process. In the practical component, you will develop skills to foster productive and meaningful dialogues between individuals and groups, making learning more effective, inclusive, motivating, and creative.

From the perspective of strategic design, the master’s explores its value as a cross-cutting and interdisciplinary tool, essential for shaping the professional profiles of the future. Thus, design becomes a fundamental language for shaping new professions and fostering innovation across various sectors.

This programme is taught at IED Madrid Design District - Carabanchel.  

 

Information to decide

A pioneering Oficial Master's program where you will learn, from a creative, critical, and collaborative approach, how to plan and evaluate innovative products, services, and projects for the educational and business sectors.

The program’s methodology will enable you to understand and interpret the complexity of the global world from a critical, reflective, diverse, and interdisciplinary perspective, equipping you with the tools to develop a strategic view of the current environment and foster a responsible dialogue with contemporary society.

Through analysis models and research methodologies, you will learn to mediate through design, collecting and interpreting information based on best practices and active roles. You will also explore how strategic design can integrate values into large organizations, driving innovation in processes and teams. In doing so, you will be trained as a professional capable of leading change in uncertain environments.

Finally, you will acquire competencies in design management to apply strategies that promote new approaches and facilitate learning within organizations. Through a theoretical-critical, practical, and methodological learning process, you will gain the necessary skills to ensure the achievement of the program’s objectives.

You will participate in projects based on challenges posed within a collaborative environment, where fluid communication—especially in decision-making—will be a key aspect. Design will serve as the central axis of your learning, integrating knowledge and practical application of methodologies, processes, or strategies, along with the acquisition of facilitation and management skills.

The program is aimed at graduates and degree holders in design, art, architecture, engineering, humanities, social sciences, and generally anyone who sees design as an innovative and transformative discipline.

The program’s outcome is the profile of a professional specialized in learning facilitation, both in traditional educational settings and in business and collaborative environments, guided by the management of strategies and innovation through design.

Upon completing the master's, you will be eligible for roles related to mediation, process facilitation, or strategy planning in consultancies, start-ups, institutions, and public and/or private organizations.

 

This Master's program responds to the growing need for flexible professionals with a global understanding of labor ecosystems, who act as connectors in innovation processes for companies, educational institutions, and organizations of all types.

You will be trained as an expert in innovation, capable of applying design to new challenges across various sectors, including culture, education, design, economy, collaborative work, sustainability, and the relationship between the body and spaces, among others.

Its social and collaborative approach, combined with its business and strategic application, as well as its strong cultural foundation, distinguishes it from other specialized design courses.

At the end of the master's, you will be prepared to work in the following areas:

Strategic Consulting

Design Thinking Workshop Facilitator

User Researcher

Innovation Director

Brand Strategist

Syllabus

DESIGN CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Design culture and society
Innovation and social impact
Social, economic and technological realities



LEARNING ANALYSIS AND FACILITATION MODELS

Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis in Design
Design research methods
Design learning and facilitation models



STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT BY DESIGN

Strategies by design
Management by design
Design in companies and organizations



EXTERNAL PRACTICES

Strategy



TFM

TFM

*The instructors, schedules, and location specified in this academic program may be modified due to organizational needs or availability. These changes will be made in order to ensure the quality and proper development of academic activities, and will be communicated to students in a timely manner.

 

Faculty

Course Coordinator

Mariano De La Canal

Teacher

Mario Blanca

Teacher

Santiago de la Asunción

Teacher

Sara Alonso

Teacher

Beatriz Amann

Architect and Academic Director

Teacher

Marcos Ocaña

Teacher

Jesús Ignacio Alonso

Teacher

Lelia Doura

News

07 May 2026

IED.60 Public Program - May: between Plural Intelligences and the culture of design

The programme of IED events open to both the internal and external communities continues in may; it was launched to mark the 60th anniversary as a collective reflection on the role of design.

06 May 2026

IED at the “Lápiz de Acero” Award in Colombia

IED joins Lápiz de Acero 2026 in Bogotá, supporting emerging talent and the future of design.

17 April 2026

Vote for IED Madrid projects among the ten finalists in Accor Design Awards 2026

For the second year running, four IED Madrid students have reached the grand final, placing their projects among the best in the world

Dos premios para el documental The Designer is Dead de Gonzalo Hergueta, Alumni IED Madrid

13 April 2026

Three awards for the documentary The Designer is Dead by Gonzalo Hergueta, IED Madrid Alumni

The film has won the Jury Prize at the International Festival of Films on Art, the Best Documentary Award in the Official Selection at Moritz Feed Doc and the Audience Award at the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest

IED Italy and Spain Summer Courses

10 April 2026

IED Italy and Spain Summer Courses

An international educational experience in Italy and Spain that integrates learning, research, and the exploration of dynamic and stimulating cultural contexts.

25 March 2026

IED ranked among the world's top 100 academic institutions in the QS World University Rankings® by Subject 2026

Europe's largest Art and Design school network secures 78th place worldwide in the Art & Design discipline, marking its 60th anniversary year.

19 March 2026

Plural Intelligences: IED Announces the Theme of Its 60th Anniversary

IED reveals Plural Intelligences, the theme dedicated to the 60th anniversary of its foundation, which will take place in 2026.

A group of people posing behind a long table with food

17 March 2026

IED Barcelona hosts BIP – Erasmus+ KA131: The Future(s) of the Mediterranean Food System

Focused on imagining possible—and desirable—futures for the Mediterranean food system, this interdisciplinary programme took place from 23 to 26 February together with students from IED Rome, Università Federico II of Naples and University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne.

09 March 2026

IED Barcelona at 4YFN 2026

Sylvie Gornes-Martin, Alumni of the Master in Strategic Design Management, has presented the project CarSight for SEAT, developed within the framework of the CBI (Challenge Based Innovation) programme in collaboration with UPC and Esade.

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HYPER FUTURES. DISEÑAR MÁS ALLÁ DEL CAPITALISMO
Lecture and Panel discussion

08 May 2026 - 22 May 2026

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HYPER FUTURES. DESIGNING BEYOND CAPITALISM

On Friday 8 May at 6.30 pm, we will celebrate this event with a workshop on the future, a panel discussion and the opening of the exhibition featuring dj Umami