Studios
Students begin their first Studio module in the second semester of their first year. There are two Studio modules in the second year, and a final module in the first semester of the third year. Students can remain with the same Studio throughout their studies or can choose to switch to different Studios as they progress through their education.
Studios are in place for four years, meaning that new Studios are also added each academic year. This ensures that the programme remains relevant, both to the interests of current students and to the challenges and realities of society beyond the walls of the institution, while remaining true to DAE's transdisciplinary approach to design education.
DAE operates an ongoing Open Call for proposals for new Studios, open to all design practitioners. The aim of this approach is to bring in new voices, beyond the network of DAE's existing board and tutors, expanding and diversifying DAE's view of design. Designers and practitioners from any stage in their carer are encouraged to submit applications.
Studio Body Building stands for a gut feeling, a sense of curiosity, of having noticed something.
Studio Digital-Native interrogates systems of oppression operating through our digital infrastructures and media and how these manifest in our material world.
What is design? No matter what it is, it is in constant change. What matters is what we want to do with it. In Studio Do-Make we learn design by doing design, and we learn design by making design.
Where public and private meet, merge and crossover, an exciting field emerges for designers.
Studio Silva Systems is dedicated to the concept of the forest as a superorganism for design and practice with ecological accountability.
Studio technogeographies aims to bring complex systems of design, extraction, transportation, manufacturing, commerce, consumption, and geopolitical forces, both human and non-human, from sites across the world to the centre of bachelor design education.
Studio Thinking Hands focuses on the crucial relationship between mind and body in the creative field. It is a course of study designed to counterbalance the virtual aspects of modern life, far away from screens, 3D models, or copy cut Instagram accounts. The Studio teaches students how to enhance and build an inquisitive and intellectual mind with making and crafting as a part of the design process.
In an effort to escape the meaningless blah blah blah culture embedded in global political, social, economic and environmental realities, Studio Turn Around aims to be a beacon of optimism and a driver for sustainable, people-centred experiences.
TURN AROUND and LOOK AHEAD.
The Morning Studio explores design as a tool for constructive protest and collective action.