Call for applications for 2012
The Master of Media Design and Communication programme is currently open for applications for the academic year of 2012/13. The programme welcomes applications worldwide.
The application deadline is May 1st 2012.
For more information, please see our application requirements.
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The Master Media Design and Communication programme is designed to develop graduates whose practice can move flexibly and fluently across a rapidly expanding field that continues to incorporate a range of hybrid practices, such as transmedia narratives, software development, cross-media lens-based practices, networked media, digital publishing, and interactive cinema to name just a few possibilities.
In pursuing this research, and creating digital artefacts, you will be encouraged to critically investigate what media and technologies are, how they are configured, and how they impact society. The very term “media” has vastly different meanings for different practitioners, theoreticians, geographical locations and schools. For example, the media landscape looks radically different from a Western European city, such as Rotterdam, than they do from the other side of the globe. Issues of access, technological infrastructures, economy and education, create the terms on which media are experienced. Since information systems do not exist in a historical, cultural or political vacuum, part of your studies is to situate technologies within these frameworks. This is why the course combines design practice, theoretical reflection and technological learning.
To work effectively and create a design practice that is inventive, ethical, and relevant in such a rapidly changing environment poses challenges. It requires a practice founded on a thorough understanding of where your own chosen emphasis – political, formal, and procedural – within the medium, meaning how your work is positioned both historically and in the current media landscape. Through our multi-faceted curriculum, combining theoretical inquiry and practice, you will eventually be able to differentiate yourself through your skills of critical reflection and practice and distinguish yourself in a highly competitive field.