This part-time master of the Willem de Kooning Academy/Piet Zwart Institute has its own vision on design research, which forms the base of its three learning lines. The curriculum includes workshops, lectures, field trips and coaching sessions. During the study you constantly reflect on what you discover and share your findings through storytelling. With your design research you contribute to new practices in which relevant issues and ways of working are explored.
Relevance in social and design context, as well as accountable design research and storytelling, are central in obtaining the master level.
Students come from different design disciplines, but most have a Bachelor of Arts or Design. What binds them during the master is iterative researching and working with participants.