Our philosophy is:
conceptual design in context.
(Gijs Bakker)

Designers work in a changeable world. They are faced with themes,
which cannot be reduced to readily solvable design problems.
More and more often they will be crossing the boundaries of their
discipline in their professional practice.

The Master Course Design at Design Academy Eindhoven focuses
on research and the ability to transform research results into relevant
design proposals. The cultural context in which designers and their
products ‘function’ is the guiding principle, but the domains the
students will research may be socially, technically, or economically
oriented as well.

The Master Course aims to offer students the tools needed to
analyse complex questions and develop personal views on possible
interventions, both to improve their individual design practice and
to facilitate (multidisciplinary) collaboration.