Master's in Geo-Design

Design Academy Eindhoven, located in the Netherlands, stands at the forefront of design education with a global reputation for nurturing creative thinkers and innovators. Renowned for its avant-garde approach, the academy places a strong emphasis on pushing boundaries and challenging conventional design norms. Students at Design Academy Eindhoven embark on a transformative journey, exploring a diverse range of design disciplines that go beyond aesthetics to address societal challenges and create meaningful impact. The academy's commitment to fostering an environment of experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration sets it apart. With a faculty comprised of industry leaders and visionary designers, students are exposed to cutting-edge concepts and real-world applications. Design Academy Eindhoven not only shapes the future of design but also cultivates a community of forward-thinkers who contribute to shaping the world through the lens of innovative and sustainable design solutions.

GEO—DESIGN is a platform to explore the social, economic, territorial, and geopolitical forces shaping design today. The department GEO—DESIGN within the two-year master’s course acknowledges the legacy of industrial production as the fundamental source for the expertise and agency of the designer in contemporary society while problematizing and addressing its historic contribution to environmental and social instability and its incompatibility with models of sustainable or even survivable futures. Students will develop research and communication tools to facilitate a deeper understanding of today’s complex reality but most of all to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities. The designer can be a critical agent in the global system, but their skillset and perspective must expand rapidly beyond isolated, self-referential processes. The projects in GEO—DESIGN will be radically rooted in an expansive understanding of reality—but one that acknowledges how “real world” problems are easily reduced to briefs for well-funded design solutions with negligible benefit to their intended users.