Our Challenges
We ask questions, engage stakeholders, experiment, and prototype solutions.
How might we...
- develop visions for a bright and liveable future?
- understand the impact of matter and materials?
- shift from sustainability to regeneration?
- foster creative entrepreneurship?
- achieve excellence in our field?
What you can expect
- Innovative design degree program in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Exploratory and research-driven - dedicated to excellence in design.
- Solving wicked problems: exploring difficult challenges to create new business opportunities.
- Low student-to-teacher ratio of 1:7.
- Outstanding workshops - translating concepts into prototypes.
Specifics for the Master Design
- Prototyping impact: well-equipped facilities foster design exploration and support a comprehensive understanding of circular and adaptive products, materials, and spatialities.
- Expanding the scope of design: excellence in sustainable entrepreneurship with dynamic interdisciplinary and collaborative networking projects.
- Regenerative Design approach: bio-fab-labs focus on researching interventions within the natural limits of our planet.
- Tailored individual coaching with leading professionals to foster self-reflection and personal growth.
- Interdisciplinary setting: a unique environment including three other master programs encourages students to develop strategic personal profiles by enhancing their skills with competencies from related fields.
Expertise
Our lecturers support students in the following areas:
- Materials and Textiles
- Product and Industrial Design
- Spatial Design
- Social Design
- Communication Design
- Illustration
- Information Design and Visualization
Language of Studies
MA programs in Design, Digital Ideation, Service Design and Eco-Social Design are taught in English.
Fields of activity
Thanks to their competencies in interdisciplinary project collaboration, experimentation methods, and modeling value propositions, graduates are well-equipped to lead design processes at the intersection of high-tech and low-tech.
The skillsets acquired offer new professional perspectives for graduates to create sustainable value for people and society, be it in cooperation with industry, research, culture, and public sectors, or by founding a design agency or company.
