COOP Design Research MSc.

General information

COOP Design Research Master of Science Program

The one-year MSc. program is conducted by Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. It is conceived as a preparatory step towards a doctoral study. It strives to integrate design and research, which are often perceived as separate disciplines. The practical experience of design gained by participants in previous study semesters and in professional practice provides the basis for an approach to design now primarily based on research and analysis.

Links:
COOP Design Research Website: https://coopdesignresearch.de
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: www.bauhaus-dessau.de
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences: www.afg.hs-anhalt.de
The Cluster of Excellence Image-Knowledge-Gestaltung of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Link: www.interdisciplinary-laboratory.hu-berlin.de

More than any other institution, the Bauhaus Dessau expressed a modern understanding of design that took a sceptical view of antiquated design traditions and substituted these with direct research into materials and the innovative potentials of technology and science. Since then, design has been perceived as a cooperative discipline that synthesises diverse aspects of knowledge. From Autumn 2014 for the first time the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the transdisciplinary research cluster Image-Knowledge-Gestaltung of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin will offer a Masters Programme, which will engage with the Bauhaus’s legacy in design research.