Privatissimum für Dissertant*innen

Anab Jain
Institut für Design, Design Investigations
2020S, Privatissimum (PV), 2.0 ECTS, 2.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S02880

Beschreibung

The Design Investigations (ID2) Department is a five year diploma course in design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Although rooted in a long history of product and industrial design, our department is committed to making the role of the designer relevant to the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Design is no longer just about nice products. From artificial intelligence to climate change and political unrest, our department educates young people to directly engage with these changes. And therefore, in extension to current industrial design skills, we train our students in advanced digital technologies, various communication and story-telling skills, academic research methodology and, most importantly, deep and critical thinking.    We have a rigorous studio based education model where students use critical thinking, investigative research, material prototyping and conceptual speculation to design objects, experiences, stories and systems. Our department encourages experimental, innovative work that challenges that status quo to discover new ways of thinking and making. Alongside tactile everyday materials like paper, wood and bamboo, our students play with emerging technologies – artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, data, robotics – and investigate their potential. Our graduates work at design consultancies, for diverse industries, they establish their own practice and go into curating and teaching.

The teaching for this course continues through distance learning.

Prüfungsmodalitäten

The exam for this course will be conducted through online jury methods, using video telecommunication technology like Zoom. Guest crits will be invited to join the online jury, and will provide critique and feedback, which will then be reviewed for every student who will be giving the exam. 

Doktoratsstudium der technischen Wissenschaften (Dr.techn.): Lehrveranstaltungen: Privatissima bzw. Seminare 786/001.01

Mitbelegung: nicht möglich

Besuch einzelner Lehrveranstaltungen: nicht möglich