Application deadline: April 1, 2016
Design Academy Eindhoven
Emmasingel 14, 3rd floor
5611 AZ Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Eindhoven: Designers, curators and theorists work in a world in flux. They are faced with complex themes that cannot be reduced to readily solvable design problems. More and more they will be crossing the boundaries of their disciplines, while the themes they work on deserve the critical view of well-informed creative minds. The Master course at Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) offers students the tools needed to research and analyse complex situations, and to develop personal views on possible interventions, to improve their individual design, theory, and practice and to create (multidisciplinary) collaborations with others.
The minimum requirement for new Master students is a completed course at Bachelor level in design, design history, curatorial studies or equivalent discipline.* During the Master course the authorship of the designer or design theorist will be reinforced. Students strengthen and focus their positions; learn to reflect on the profession and its limits; develop their personal imagery and signature; research topical questions in order to come up with valid design, presentation or text proposals. The cultural context in which designers and their products “function” is the guiding principle, though the domains the students will research, may be socially, technically, or economically oriented as well.
Programmes
The Master programmes of Design Academy Eindhoven consist of four research departments: Contextual Design, Social Design, Information Design and Design Curating and Writing. The two-year curricula are set up around research and design assignments, given by the design and workshop tutors, writing and thesis supervisors of the four departments, and lectures and workshops given by guest lecturers. During the second year, students work on individual research themes, which they have formulated themselves. In order to formulate topical research themes the Masters department cooperate with external institutions, governments, companies, leading experts, as well as with the researchers of the DAE-Lectoraten (Readerships/Professorships).
Apart from the lessons of each department, every department organizes lectures by visiting critics and guests, theory, workshop and discussion events within the so called Source programme. Often these events are open for all master students.
Students
The programme aims at professionals working within the domains of design, curatorial practices, design theory, critical studies, or related domains. Designers with an analytical writing talent gain more skills and knowledge, to be able to relate their design process to reflecting, curating and writing. Theorists with an academic background gain more insight into the practical, creative and hands-on aspects of the design process, to either deepen their analytical skills and/or to develop an expertise in designing curatorial plans.
Diploma
Completing the Master Course at DAE will lead to the title Master in Design (MA in design).
*Applicants with a Bachelor degree in art, architecture, art history, or the humanities, with a demonstrable affinity with design, can also apply. DAE will not deviate from the rule that the master’s is a two-year course and that a completed bachelor’s programme is a requirement for admission, except in highly exceptional cases. Students who believe they are eligible for certain exemptions may submit their request to the Programme Manager of the Masters, Judith Konz.
In order to apply or more information, click here.
Contact
Judith Konz, Programme manager Masters: [email protected]
