Course syllabus
The course Design as Exploratory Practice act as a first introduction to design as understood at the MFA Design at HDK-Valand. You will be introduced to the different workshops that will support your material practices. You will meet each other: designers with different backgrounds, experiences, and outlooks. You will meet staff, teachers, and researchers, also with different skills, knowledge, and intuitions but with a shared sense of urgency to explore the role and potentialities of design practice.
In Design as Exploratory Practice you start to build the foundation that will support your design practice the coming two years, and beyond. It is where you begin to unpack your knowledge in order to explore new modes, methods and approaches of practice.
In this first course you will meet the Röhsska museum of Design and Craft as an external partner.
At the MFA Design program we understand and approach design as inherently relational. You will be asked to take on an explorative mode of practice. The concept of explorative practice can be understood as being brave, curious, testing, expanding, unsure, processual, open, not knowing where you will end up.
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