Van Gezel tot Meester

Learning to design is a mattter of doing and becoming aware what to do. Teaching designing is a matter of making the design process explcit and training meaningful actions and skills. Both are main subject in this MSc 2.

The design process and the didactics of design are studied and practiced at the hand of a frame work of 5 generic elements. Basically, designing is a process of experimentation (exploring and testing), in a laboratory (sketching and modelling). The designer has to address aspects in different domains (form, material, function and context), using common known and proved knowledge, often in the form of patterns and principles (frame of reference). In the end (s)he comes up with a coherent meaningful, adequate elaborated design, addressing the specific design situation at hand.

Be aware: course is in Dutch, because of the internship in the BSC first year

Assessment will be based on the results of the design projects and reflective studies on design (education).

The design project is awarded a grade that is a whole or half number between 1.0 and 10.0. Students pass the course with a 6.0 or higher. With a grade below 6.0: students who presented assessable work during the course are allowed to do a repair to change the grade into a ‘pass’. The repair is unsupervised and needs to be completed within 2 weeks after the end of the course. When the repair is unsuccessful, the student needs to follow the entire course again.