Master Design parttime

The Master Design is a two-year part-time programme focused on deepening students' design practice.

Within current design practices we choose a specific position, in which creative forms of design research and working with participants are crucial. The methods that the study programme provides for conducting design and in-depth participatory research support this. We see design as an engine for (behavioral) changes and transitions in the context in which our students place their projects.

Based upon their own design goal, students of the Master Design learn to apply a designerly and in-depth approach to design research. They constantly reflect on what they discover and share their work and expertise through storytelling. Combining and integrating this part-time master with their design practice, they renew their own role and thus that of (creative) professionals in society and organizations. They contribute to social, environmental and technological change. The combination of participatory work and authorship is central.
Working together with participants, who bring their own questions, experiences, ideas or knowledge, is the starting point. With them, our students look for opportunities, reflect on discoveries and try them out. Their designs, within the research process or in the final product, materialize and visualize design choices in an idiosyncratic way. During the course, they also find their own voice in the convincing and attractive storytelling with which they propagate their design research.

When they graduate, our students establish an original vision that combines personal curiosity, participatory design research and creative design power. In doing so, they take their place as experts in a new, meaningful practice and contribute practice-based and transdisciplinary to innovations in social and design practices.
Relevance in social and design context, as well as accountable design research and storytelling, are central in obtaining the master level.

The pedagogical vision of the Master Design is connected in three learning lines. Its curriculum includes workshops, lectures, a field trip and coaching sessions in which reflection in an on action form an important element. The Master Design Circle represents the principles of the course in its lemmas, key concepts that carry the curriculum.

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