Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Master in Performing Public Space (MA)
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Tilburg, Netherlands
Master degree
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 Aug 2026
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,601 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
* statutory tuition fees Full-time| statutory tuition fees Part-time- € 2.395 | institutional tuition fee: € 8.570
Key Summary
About: Master in Performing Public Space at Fontys University of Applied Sciences explores how cultural developments shape shared environments, arguing that public space exists when it's socially performed. The interdisciplinary MA welcomes theater, dance, circus, music, fine arts, architecture, digital arts and graphic design practitioners. You’ll get individual coaching, collective experimentation, and 24/7 online access.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles as community arts practitioners, public artists, cultural producers, curators, participatory designers, social researchers or project managers, working with arts organizations, urban developers, museums and civic initiatives. They may teach, consult or lead research and site-based interventions that engage audiences.
Performing Public Space (PPS) is committed to understanding how cultural developments can produce meaningful change within our shared spaces, based on the idea that public space exists only when it is socially performed. In a time where political and social structures are reconsidered heavily, PPS offers a flexible and innovative environment to artistically question, redefine, and reclaim public space in its broadest sense. Combining an interdisciplinary range of approaches and subjects, with an equally diverse range of research methods, PPS creates the opportunity for artists to explore their practice and its potential in public space. Creatives with a background in theatre, dance, circus, music, fine arts, architecture, digital arts, and graphic design are welcome to join this program.
Why this study
- International art and research community.
- Individual coaching and collective experimentation.
- Work in an interdisciplinary setting.
- Strengthen critical and artistic positioning.
- 24/7 access to the online learning platform.
Curriculum outline
PPS is a one-year, online programme (60 ECTS), including three times an on-site intensive. During these intensives, you will have in-the-field training for two weeks. The main objective of this programme is to support the development and production of your current work in progress, dealing with public space at large.
What will you learn
The primary goal of the programme is to enable students to adopt an independent and critical reflective attitude while inventively switching between different roles in the organizational process of their artistic research. This Master offers its students the necessary tools to perform critically and effectively as artists and researchers, able to navigate complex modes and methods surrounding the contemporary artistic process and result.
- You acquire the skills needed to conduct artistic research.
- You develop well-grounded artistic strategies.
- You gain a stronger awareness of and position in the sociopolitical context.
Students with a nationality of any EU/EEA country, Switzerland or the UK can use the study financing options offered by the Dutch government. Read more about it on duo.nl.
Students with a non-EEA nationality applying to this programme may be eligible for a partial scholarship for their first study year via the NL Scholarship. Read more about it on NL scholarship | Fontys.