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Our master's programme provides you with a strategic, interdisciplinary foundation to explore design’s changing role across the private and public sectors within product, service, and systems design, as well as design research. It equips you with essential skills to address complex challenges and foster innovation through a blend of theory and practical experience.

To design for the shift towards sustainable societies, digitisation of professional, social, and private life, professional designers need to constantly adapt and learn. Through the integration of Product, Service, Systems, Experience, Interaction, and Social Design, our programme prepares designers to lead meaningful change across industries, social sectors, and policy.

Upon successful completion of this master's programme, students are able to critically design for complex contexts. The complexity relates to the social/political, environmental, economic, and technological contexts in which the designer, as well as the products and services that they create, will perform and influence.

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Upon successful completion of this programme, you will have attained the following knowledge, skills, and general competence at an advanced level.

Knowledge

The candidate…

• has advanced knowledge within the field of design and a particular understanding of performing, evaluating, and adjusting their own design processes in complex contexts.
• has thorough knowledge of the practice- and scientific-based methods applied to complex design processes.
• can critically analyse and apply relevant theory and research methods from other disciplines in design contexts.
• can critically analyse and evaluate communication, sustainability, culture, and aesthetics as part of design contexts.
• can analyse design issues based on the history, traditions, distinctive character, and place in society of the academic field.

Skills

The candidate…

• can analyse and deal critically with various sources of information and use them to structure and formulate necessary interventions for a design process.
• can analyse existing theories, methods, and interpretations in the field of design and work independently on design projects.
• can use relevant design methods for research and design work in an independent manner.
• can carry out an independent design process and develop innovative design solutions for society by applying accumulated knowledge from research, theory, experiments, and practice under supervision.
• can conduct interdisciplinary processes with other professionals as well as laypeople.
• can undertake a limited research or development project under supervision and in accordance with applicable norms for research ethics.

General Competence

The candidate…

• can communicate, facilitate, and manage design processes in complex contexts.
• can critically reflect on the role of design in society and its implications for ethical problems.
• can apply their knowledge and skills through performing and evaluating their own design processes in relation to communication, culture, and aesthetics in complex contexts.
• can communicate extensive independent work and master the language and terminology of the academic field.
• can communicate about academic issues, analyses, and conclusions in the field, both with specialists and the general public.
• can contribute to new thinking and innovation processes.

The programme builds on the foundation that design can bridge individual and collective interests. It is a challenging programme that focuses on developing design solutions centred around human beings and their environment.

During the two-year degree programme, you will be challenged both in design practice and in the discussion of design and its role in societies.

The Master's Degree in Product Design runs for two years as a full-time study and is divided into several courses. All courses, except for the Master's Project (30 ECTS), have a value between 10 and 20 ECTS. All other courses are compulsory in order to complete the Master Programme in Product Design.

The different courses expose you to several design methodologies that help enhance and expand your individual design expression. Each course offers you the possibility to develop your own design projects within a set theme or methodology. This helps you in defining your personal value system and working methods. Particularly, the second-semester internship course or the third-semester exchange offers you the possibility to connect to relevant networks within design, craft, and industry in Norway or abroad.

Throughout the two years, the course encourages you to consider and develop design solutions that meet current and future societal challenges.

For more information, refer to the programme description.

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