Social Design - Arts as Urban Innovation University of Applied Arts Vienna

Overview

Key features

The Social Design - Arts as Urban Innovation programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna places the respective (study) project at the centre of an inter­national teaching environment constituted specifically for each project. Different artistic and scientific experts are assigned as teachers in diverse constellations tailored to the respective project’s requirements and are involved in its development.

The objective of the programme is to integrate diverse disciplinary expertise when dealing with the complexity of urban systems. To this end, it is not theoretical dis­course that serves as the pretext rather the direct reference to urban reality underpins the project work.

The master programme is oriented towards graduates from diverse fields of study, thereby stipulating work in transdisciplinary teams as the central teaching and learning approach in the programme. On the basis of professional competences acquired in their respective previous studies, students become acquainted with transcending disciplinary codes and thinking and working in greater inter­relation­ships.

Graduates will have undergone a process of transformation and conscientisation in their studies that enables them to define their artistic identity anew and to employ art as a tool of urban innovation.

The programme endows students with the capacity to identify, analyse, and evaluate questions and issues relevant to urban systems. In particular, they should be able to assemble, organise, and lead competent teams of people from diverse professional backgrounds.

Graduates are qualified for work fields in the context of the development of effective and socially responsible urban concepts and their implementation.