Arts and Culture - Design Cultures Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Overview

Other programmes train students to design objects. On this programme you learn to interpret, reflect and write about design.

This Arts and Culture - Design Cultures programme offered at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam raises these questions: What makes a design iconic? How is design used to construct national identity? How can we approach design from a post-colonial, ecological and feminist perspective? How do designers think and work? How can the very same object mean different things to different users? What is the future of design?

Entering the job market

After finishing your Master's programme, you can work in various job fields. Our graduates have careers as:

• project managers (Modemuze, Dutch Design Foundation)

• editors at design and fashion magazines (Vogue NL)

• book authors (nai 010 Publishers)

• lecturers in design history and theory (Hogeschool Willem de Kooning, Rotterdam; Hogeschool van Amsterdam; University of Technology, Sidney; The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)

• museum curators (Vitra Design Museum, Art and Design Atomium Museum in Brussels (ADAM), Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich)

• PhD candidates