ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
Master in Data and DesignDURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Master in Data Design
In this world of flat-earthers and “alternative facts”, transforming data into understandable and honest information is a matter of societal survival. Our Master in Data Design is a hands-on experience harnessing data for crafting information and making a change.
In the Master in Data Design, we learn from the latest practices in research, data analysis, visualisation and storytelling to create projects beyond classical formats.
Nowadays, we have access to almost everything, anywhere and anytime, but that doesn't mean we know the world any better.
Last year we collectively generated, collected and stored more data than in the five previous millennia of recorded human history. We are addicted to those pushes on our phones but cannot process them.
We may have heard or read there has been a two-degree increase in the temperature of the planet or a 1.5 average in the dispersion of a virus, but we have no idea what that means.
Misinformation and fake news have become just as significant as factual information. Our role as information and data designers is vital for all these reasons. In this Master in Data Design, we will create tools to help our societies find their way in this chaotic scenario, creating empathetic systems capable of extracting meaning and communicating messages.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the school website for more information.
Curriculum
Foundations
- Data as raw material - Statistics
- Space as data - Cartography
- The hidden link - Networks
- Data Visualization
- Data Representation
- Visual Explanation
Master project
- Data Experience
- Data Communication
- Theoretical and methodological research framework
- Design Criticism
Perspectives
- Media Studies
- Critical Media
- Data Boundaries
- Data for the Common Good
- Audiovisual
- Storytelling
Projects
- Information Systems
- Data Beyond Screens
- Symbolic Alphabet / Iconography
Workshops
- Who is afraid of technology?
- Data Journalism
- Degree Showcase
Capsules
- Data &Drawing
- Data &Nature
- Data &Processing
- Data & Sound
- Data & Performance
Events
- International lectures
- Master’s Talks
Program Outcome
Master's Degree in Data and Design. Awarded by UVic-UCC.
ECTS credits: 60