The COOP Design Research Master of Science course at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Anhalt) provides students with a combination of design and research training in preparation for doctoral study.

School: Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Anhalt)
Course: COOP Design Research Master of Science
Location: Dessau-Rosslau, Germany
Course dates: October 2024 to September 2025
Application deadline: 15 May 2024

The COOP Design Research Master of Science is a teaching cooperative by Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with Humboldt University Berlin (Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material").

The full-time one-year COOP Design Research Master's program offers an overview of the diversity of academic scholarship in this field and contributes to strengthening a research practice by the means provided by design.

The program strives to integrate design and research as a transdisciplinary field at the crossroads of material studies, social sciences, design anthropology, cultural studies, technology studies, architecture and design history, and theory.

The program develops the student's understanding of a theoretical framework, as a forum for the analysis and discussion of epistemological concepts and practical knowledge.

It deals with the practical approach to preparing a research project with the necessary tools, techniques, software applications and work procedures.

The degree opens professional perspectives in the fields of research and teaching of design, cultural studies, as well as curatorial practice.

It can be conceived as either a preparatory step towards doctoral studies or as theoretical enrichment for applied design research and practice. Moreover, the program fosters international cultural exchange and social engagement.

Applications to this course have now closed.

Top image: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, photo by Thomas Meyer/Ostkreuz

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