The Master in Design Entrepreneurship and Design Research course at Bern Academy of the Arts challenges students to develop design-led entrepreneurship skills that address sustainable and social issues.

School: Bern Academy of the Arts, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Course: Master in Design Entrepreneurship and Design Research
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Course dates: September 2024 to January 2026 full-time, September 2024 to January 2027 part-time
Application deadline: 15 March 2024

The Master in Design at the Bern Academy of the Arts offers students a highly individualised project-based programme for socially relevant design entrepreneurship and design research projects.

Students are encouraged to identify socially relevant design issues and work in interdisciplinary and diverse contexts.

Teaching creative and scientific theories, methods and tools, we provide you with a framework for developing your design entrepreneurship and design research project, from the initial idea to the formulation of a business concept or a research proposal.

This programme is unique in that it is project-based and offers an individualised curriculum on a full-time or part-time basis, a free choice of supervisors and personal exchange in small classes.

We offer a state-of-the-art bright studio space where you can work, socialise and relax.

The Master in Design is one of the first programmes in Switzerland that understands design as an interdisciplinary, participatory approach to social transformation, which is not primarily about creating solutions that are aesthetically pleasing and purely functional but about promoting sustainable development and social change.

With our expertise in research and evidence-based development in the areas of social design, healthcare design, design entrepreneurship, environmental communication design, knowledge visualisation, design and rhetoric and design history, we support you in grasping the complexity of socially relevant problems.

Based on this, we accompany you in the development of business concepts, with a specialisation in entrepreneurship, or research projects, with a specialisation in research.

With its future-oriented focus, the Master in Design programme is primarily aimed at trained designers with professional experience who are not satisfied with their role as service providers and want to use their skills to assume social responsibility and to initiate and lead corresponding projects.

It prepares graduates for various professions that deal with the design of change and innovation in different fields, enabling them to initiate, contribute and advise transformation processes in various roles in companies and organisations.

Please see our graduates' projects here.

Applications to this course have now closed.

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