Design Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen

Overview

Based on your talent and ambition, you develop into an experimental designer with an open attitude. You learn how to work creatively, inquisitively and skilfully on inspiring designs that answer current design questions. You do so in different contexts, so that you later will be able to find your way in interdisciplinary and (inter)national environments.  

In the Design curriculum from Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen , you will come across different types of classes: 

• During Studio classes, you develop concepts by doing design research. In that way, you discover how to make the right choices to create inspiring designs.  
• In Lab classes, you develop designs by experimenting. Finding your own style as a designer is important here.  
• The theory classes help you see the design dilemmas you are working on in a broader context and to determine your own position in it. You will do the same in our activities and lectures on Professional Practice. 

Our academy has many extras: workshops where you can get to work practically, electives in which you work with students from different disciplines, an exam in which you get a year to really explore your own project. 

All this is to prepare you for a place in the world of design, whether you are looking for it in an independent studio or at an agency. Throughout your studies, your Study Coach will help you take the right steps in this direction, or to think about solutions when studying is a bit more difficult. 

Alumni

Our alumni end up in all kinds of places, in line with who they are as designers. This can be in autonomous projects, in studios where they work for their own clients or at larger agencies where they will work as part of a team. In addition, some of them choose to do a master's degree or participate in research projects.