Master's Program in Design for Urban Environment
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
10 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
03 Oct 2024
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Master's Program in Design for Urban Environment trains professionals to take part in the process of urban transformation by designing ideas that help to reinforce the social, cultural, and economic fabric of 21st-century cities.
This course focuses mainly on the following lines of work: Design for sustainable development, social inclusion to empower citizens in the face of social challenges, governance, cooperation, e-democracy, open data, and transparency, as well as design to tackle urban mobility issues and contribute to people’s safety.
Urban environments are currently facing significant challenges, which calls for professionals who know about the past, understand the present, and can anticipate the future to think up solutions in collaboration with their inhabitants and the people in charge of managing them.
Coordinator
Bet Cantallops
Architect at Saetaestudi since 1994.
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Curriculum
Observation, analysis, and experimentation are an essential part of learning. The course proposes intense theoretical/practical immersion in the urban context of the city of Barcelona, which is why both its theoretical classes and projects are backed by outings led by the teachers of the Master’s degree.
The course proposes five interrelated lines of action that are structured upon various types of subjects.
These lines of action are Thinking, Doing, Projecting, Listening and Communicating.
Program Outcome
- To train new professional profiles with the skills to act in urban contexts from a collaborative design perspective based on the needs of various actors/stakeholders.
- To provide students with a global, interdisciplinary, and integrating vision of the experiences taking place within the urban environment to propose relevant, consensual, and sustainable design solution actions.
- To provide students with specific tools and knowledge to complete projects related to the urban environment.
- To train students to acquire the language and role of a designer/facilitator profile to co-create urban environment solutions.
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Career Opportunities
Graduates will be qualified to join different kinds of projects in the urban context with tools that can help them interpret from an overall perception of design.
They will be able to face the challenges posed by current urban problems and citizen needs, expanding their knowledge to work with multidisciplinary teams and coordinating a design approach in urban projects.
They will be able to work in public/private entities in some of the following areas/functions:
- Lead urban regeneration processes
- Urban design consultancy
- Urban design process management
- Conduct studies related to the urban environment
- Prepare guidance and statements
- Site and area design and/or mobility design
- Facilitate collaborative processes for design in the urban environment
- Visualize and communicate data in urban design processes