ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
Master in Design through New Materials
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
10 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
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APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Master's Degree in Design through New Materials
The Master in Design through New Materials focuses on design and innovation, sustainability and creativity through new materials. An experimental and transdisciplinary course that values material design as a ground-breaking working field.
Everything around us is materials. They are at the core of innovation, being defined at the early decision of design development, generating an impact that influences industry, society and even cultural values. Material-driven innovation allows for new initiatives being developed, more sustainable solutions found, and more creative design processes put into place. TheMaster in Design through New Materialswill allow you to create new opportunities through new materials and design and define how our future is built.
We aim to generate a new breed of ‘materials design specialists’ in transdisciplinary fields, providing a working knowledge and active mastery.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the school website for more information.
Curriculum
- Materials in Context, Material Narratives — Culture and Forecasting
- Materials Foundations — Science and Technology
- Materials in Use — Materials in Action, Materials as Form
- Materials Innovation — Research and Futures
- Materials Experimentation — Experimenting and Developing and DIY
- Materials Industry and Sustainability — the Future of Fabrication
- Materials Languages, Materials Interaction — Materials as Form, Surface and Emotion
- Materials Strategies — Communication and Market Placement
Program Outcome
Master's Degree in Design through New Materials. Awarded by UVic-UCC.
ECTS credits: 60
The Master's Degree in Design through New Materials is structured for students to acquire, develop and exercise and specific abilities and competences, which cumulatively encompass the necessary skill-set to design, develop, optimize and efficiently communicate a project in terms of both materials-driven innovation, process based production and design solutions.
- Be able to analyse future socio-cultural scenarios and contextualise new materials in a global context.
- Be able to select and apply materials, technologies and manufacturing processes in design and the specific nature of the development processes.
- Acquire the skills for the ideation of applications of new materials.
- Be able to evaluate sustainability aspects and environmental impact of materials for industry application.
- Be able to experiment with new materials and related technologies in order to produce new material applications, new material developments or new material languages.
- Be able to generate families of colour and trim as well as materials languages applied to brand and market placement.
- Be able to generate a sound narrative and strategy in order to successfully position a material within the market or sector.
- Be able to recognize the potential of new business models associated to the materials and related technologies being generated.