Master in Design Research
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 10,400
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
In a world marked by uncertainty and complexity, design plays a key role, BAU’s Master in Design Research guides students in understanding and questioning the present and encourage them to create transformative proposals with creativity and a critical spirit.
With rigor responsibility and commitment, the master’s degree is a space for reflection and action. Students face the challenge of thinking and building a better, fairer and more sustainable world. To this end the curriculum offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the practice of design working on areas such as architecture, anthropology, political sciences and fine arts. With a collaborative philosophy, the master’s degree proposes a method based on research as a creative practice and on material and technological experimentation.
In addition, as it is an official degree, it is a route to a PhD programme, BAU’s Master in Design Research promotes the social role of design and its potential asa driving force for change to successfully face the challenges of the present.
Partnerships
The master offers the possibility to undertake a Master Thesis with an external entity, be it an association, foundation, ONG, collective, research institution or private company.
This will allow students to land their research into real contexts and learn how to respond to wicked problems and real-world challenges. It will also connect students with a professional and academic network, taking the first steps towards their profesional future.
Possible roles and types that the collaboration can take are:
Offer space and tools for the research
Offer the possibility to apply the research to a real context
Offer the space and tools for testing prototypes
The Master also offers the possibility to undertake an Internship in one of those entities or others selected by students, in an ideal scenario of interconnection between the TFM Project and the internship.
BAU is committed to providing students with an education that strongly links learning with professional or vocational practice.
Qualification: Master’s Degree in Research and Experimentation in Design awarded by UVic-UCC and accredited by the RUCT and the Ministry of Education (BOE*)
In collaboration with ACCIÓ.
Curriculum
- Fiction, Critical and Speculative Design: Explore the role of fiction, speculation and game to create new material narratives.
- Social Innovation and Collaborative Design: Understand design not only as a service or product, but as a democratic and social strategy.
- Material Cultures and Design Ecologies: Generate visions of radical environmental and social futures through matter.
- Design, Power and Society: How can design integrate into power, and how can it become a tool to question it?
- Research in Art and Design: Set up a dialogue the links between contemporary designers and artists and science, architecture, collective memory and popular culture.
- Manufacturing and Prototyping: Experimentation and creative research with materials, machines and bits from multiple design fields.
- Ethnographies and Design: Develop an ethnographic sensitivity to learn to observe, investigate and dwell the world in alternative ways.
- Investigation with Data: Work with big data and explore new forms of visualisation in the field of research within design.
- Digital Design: Immersion into artificial intelligence applied to visual culture with a critical view and a creative approach.
- Design and Numeric Control: Generate learning environments from the maker philosophy to gain advance design knowledge.
- Internship: Each student is offered the chance to be an intern in leading companies within the design professional field that work to provide answers to the needs of the job market and the current social reality.
Master’s Degree Final Thesis
The Master’s degree Final Thesis (MFT) is the structural axis of the master that allows students to create their own research journey and connect in different ways with the contents offered along the master course.
The MFT demonstrates the student’s contribution to the field of study and their ability to communicate complex research for peers, researchers and the community in general.
The Master envisions the MFT as a space to develop collaborations with external entities.
Students can either choose among the range of partnership institutions of the master or explore new collaborations to develop, test and implement their FMT projects in a real context.
Career Opportunities
- Multidisciplinary designer
- Designer researcher
- Design lecturer
- Designer of research projects
- Transitional designer
- Social and cultural designer
- Consultant for environmental and sustainable design projects
- Coordinator of digital creation and manufacturing laboratories
- Coordinator of collaborative design projects
- Cultural manager
- Start a PhD