Bachelor in Studios - Studio Digital-Native

Design Academy Eindhoven, located in the Netherlands, stands at the forefront of design education with a global reputation for nurturing creative thinkers and innovators. Renowned for its avant-garde approach, the academy places a strong emphasis on pushing boundaries and challenging conventional design norms. Students at Design Academy Eindhoven embark on a transformative journey, exploring a diverse range of design disciplines that go beyond aesthetics to address societal challenges and create meaningful impact. The academy's commitment to fostering an environment of experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration sets it apart. With a faculty comprised of industry leaders and visionary designers, students are exposed to cutting-edge concepts and real-world applications. Design Academy Eindhoven not only shapes the future of design but also cultivates a community of forward-thinkers who contribute to shaping the world through the lens of innovative and sustainable design solutions.

Studios are the creative heart of the BA study programme at Design Academy Eindhoven. A studio at DAE is where students learn to translate their ideas and principles that they have developed at the Academy into their own practice as a designer. The toolbox filled in the ongoing Fundamentals programme will be used here. Studio Digital-Native interrogates systems of oppression operating through our digital infrastructures and media and how these manifest in our material world. The studio will take an interdisciplinary approach to research through design, encouraging students to take a theoretical standpoint that they develop into creative output. An architectural and spatial understanding will form the background to our methodology, whilst broader references and techniques will be encompassed, such as sound, fashion, painting, immersive technologies and visual essays. Speculative design will be explored in the form of imagining possible futures through design objects, media, performance, and collaborative practice.