Vision & Approach
“Be the Future of Something Else”
Our Master programs address urgent global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration with the cultural sector, NGOs, industries, and governmental partners. We support students in becoming critical, context-aware artists and designers who help shape a more sustainable and inclusive future.
The program emphasizes:
- Artistic research & critical making
- Interdisciplinary learning
- Engagement with real-world challenges
- Working with emerging technologies
Our Vision
It is our ambition to contribute to the world we live in by addressing today’s urgent global challenges, working collaboratively and creatively with the cultural sector, NGO’s, industries, and government, to generate new knowledge and exchange of that knowledge, to imagine another future capable of transforming the world we live in.
“Be the Future of Something Else”
The expanded pedagogical scope of the Master programs has created new opportunities for interdisciplinarity and co-research across our research pathways. We are committed to supporting ambitious and diverse critical and context specific creative research interests and approaches.
The Master programs provide a transformative education, empowering students to become the new generation of artists and designers who will contribute in unconventional ways to changing the complex and interconnected world we live in.
Emphasis is placed on role of the artist and designer in society and on modes of criticality, to navigate, rethink and transform the complexity of contemporary life.
The Master programs widen the debate on where we can take arts education and establishes further the impetus for developing an arts research culture. The institution plays a vital role in generating new ways of thinking and innovative creative practice, empowering our learning community (both students and tutors) towards excellence through artistic research, scholarship, and knowledge exchange
