Designing Future Realities

Designing Future Realities is an open, transdisciplinary lab for anyone who wants to develop strategies and prototypes for a future living environment. The DFR course program is divided into three main areas: Discourse and Context, Technique and Process, and Design and Intervention. During the entire course, students have access to the modern prototyping labs of the Werkstätte Wattens and the University of Innsbruck.

Info

Degree
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) from the University of Innsbruck

Duration/ECTS-Credits
2 semesters/ 30 ECTS-Credits

Start
tba

Cost
7.800 EUR

Language
English

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Learning Outcomes

Graduates will have aquired knowledge and competencies in

the contemporary discourse of design, applied arts and aesthetics and its interrelation with societal and cultural dynamics;
the field of design, art and emerging technologies with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary precedents and applications;
the field of cross-disciplinary scientific research.

Target Group

Persons

with a thematically relevant diploma or bachelor programme or
other equivalent studies completed at a post-secondary educational institution.

In justified cases, persons, who do not meet the requirements mentioned above, can also be admitted if they have the appropriate competences due to their artistic and professional activities, experiences and body of work for at least three years.

Requirements

Participants may apply online by submitting the following documents:

CV (in tabular form)
copy of a (Bachelor / Master) Diploma
motivation letter
extended portfolio of prior work
project proposal (which explains the artistic agenda, the precise project with timeline and list of required equipment, further information depending on project, such as drawings, storyboards, recordings, clips, etc...)