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This blog is a collection of posts from both SDL students and SDL staff!

The modern world is permeated and shaped by digital technologies in all areas of life: communication, learning, playing, creativity, dating, therapy – you name it.

The Master’s Programme in Sustainable Digital Life (SDL) focuses on enhancing our digital lives: the digital systems surrounding us as well as the ways of using, regulating, and designing them. The programme offers a unique course portfolio at the intersection of social sciences, design, and media. The programme educates interdisciplinary experts who understand the digital society from the viewpoints of culture and ethics, as well as comprehend digital systems and how they are produced.

The programme

  • Aims to educate creativeanalytical and critical experts in digital media and communication and information technology; experts who are capable of renewing the society by envisioning, designing, and evaluating digital services that are ethically sustainable, accessible for everyone, and mindful of social and cultural diversity.
  • Focuses on sustainability not only related to digital things but also the way of learning: we ensure that future experts possess skills that are adaptive, far-reaching, and transformative in a variety of fields.
  • Has a special focus on accessibility: learning to understand the diversity of users and ways of using digital systems, how to evaluate accessibility of existing systems, and how to take accessibility into account in design.
  • Is genuinely multidisciplinary: the teachers of the programme represent various academic disciplines.
  • The programme’s core courses include digital literacy, fundamentals of service design, sustainable design, diverse digital culture, accessibility and gamification.

Read more about the master’s degree programme