LONDON — Anyone who thinks the future looks grim should go immediately to the Design Museum here, where five young designers in residence have worked for the past seven months on ways to make life better.

The program’s theme this year was “Support,” and the designers’ ideas on the subject have ranged from creating robots to establishing permanent addresses for the homeless. In turn, the program helps the designers.

“We work with designers at the start of their careers, supporting them and providing a platform for them and helping forge their careers,” said Margaret Cubbage, a museum curator who has been responsible for the program for the last seven of its 10 years. To qualify for it, designers had to have left school within the last five years and been working for at least one year.

The five selected designers have been using a 710-square-foot studio at the museum — the first time it was available, thanks to the museum’s move a year ago from south of the Thames to larger quarters in the Kensington neighborhood.