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    CAS Design Cultures

    • Short description
    • Target Audience
    • Positioning
    • Dates
    • Cost
    • How to apply

    Short description

    Actively shape society, culture and systems

    The CAS Design Cultures programme offers you the opportunity to immerse yourself in innovative living and cultural spaces. These spaces are characterised by forward-looking economic, social, ecological and cultural strategies. The course aims to examine and help shape these environments within the context of design attitudes and practices, in order to encourage engagement with the malleability of one's own culture and surroundings.

    CAS Design Cultures is a modular structured, therefore it can be planned and studied individually and flexibly. At its core is participation in a study trip: the next one will take place in April/May 2027 to Guatemala. 

    Target Audience

    The CAS Design Cultures is intended for people in any role or sector who specifically want to apply their design-oriented mindset and strategy in different contexts and cultures, and reflect on their experience.

    • Designers and creative individuals who want to give their design activities a more international focus.
    • Subject specialists and project leaders from all sectors who want to familiarize themselves with international design cultures.
    • Senior managers who want to find out about the innovative potential of design in specific contexts. 

    Positioning

    In the context of the MAS Strategic Design, the CAS Design Cultures deals with the application and reflection of design-orientated thinking and strategies in different cultural contexts. The programme is particularly suitable for people who want to expierence themselves in situational actions within different cultures and, above all, expand their reflective and social skills.

    The «spider model» shows the dimensions of curriculum in strategic design.

    Know Yourself – Develop an awareness of yourself and your own value system, and an understanding of how these influence your own positioning and strategic behaviour.

    Master Tools – Gain a broad knowledge of the concepts, methods and other instruments which help with strategic decision-making and support the required processes.

    Shape Experiences – Build up expertise in aesthetic and experience-based elements and their influence on, and interaction in, the implementation of strategic decisions.

    Enable People – Empower third parties by the clever application of collaborative and communication skills.

    Navigate Complexity – Learn how to handle complex systems and about contextual relationships and how these can be influenced by interventions.

    Transform Organizations – Learn about the idiosyncrasies of organizations and other communities.

    Understand Technologies– Raise awareness of the potential of technological developments and their direct interaction with cultural aspects of everyday life.

    Dates

    At the heart of CAS Design Cultures is participation in one or more study trips. The next one will take place in April/May 2027 and will travel to Guatemala. Remaining ECTS credits can be earned by attending modules lasting up to three days before and/or after the study trip and over the course of two to three years.

    Cost

    The pricing structure for this programme is based on the individual prices of the modules attended. Participants develop their individual CAS journey based on their interests and in close cooperation with the programme managers.

    How to apply

    Further information: CAS Design Cultures