Situated Design Avans University of Applied Sciences

Overview

The Situated Design , M.A course Avans University of Applied Sciences studies will take place within a diverse community of master's students from different backgrounds. You frequently collaborate with each other, across pathways and outside of the campus. This way you gain experience in a wide range of practices and establish a valuable network. Situated Design maintains strong connections with designers, publishers and institutions in the Netherlands and abroad.

During your study, you can use our dedicated master studio spaces in which we focus on improving your ability to engage with emerging technologies with critical reflection and mindfulness. Our outstanding workshop and technical facilities provide courses ranging from print, wood ceramics and metal, to immersive and iterative storytelling and interactive media.

The graduation track Situated Design is distinguished by the quality of its teaching, research and practice. Our motivated team, strengthened by professors of expertise centre Caradt, is committed to supporting ambitious and diverse creative research practices and approaches.

Career opportunities:

Situated Design prepares you for a future in a dynamic profession that demands strong reflexive and adaptive abilities. In a critical and supportive environment, you will learn how to operate independently and as part of a team on complex, research-based projects. Graduates leave the institute with a cohesive body of work. And, more importantly, working methods upon which to build a sustainable, lifelong career in the field of design.

You will be equipped to establish your own future-proof design practices.

In the realm of Situated Design, you will find:

• An embodied design practice that enables you to navigate the world as integral part of it.
• A design ethos that encourages you to be unabashedly authentic in expressing your perspectives, emotions and connections with others and the world.

At Situated Design, we are committed to helping you become:

• A consummate professional designer who excels in presenting your work, engaging with peers in the industry. And connecting with a broader cross-section of society.
• A designer who uncovers and embraces your true passion. Embarking on a lifelong pursuit and developing your ways of perceiving, sensing, and collaborating with the world.