Research Master's Visual Arts, Media and Architecture

Bik Van der Pol, Accumulate, Collect, Show, 2011. Courtesy Frieze projects, London.

Arts and Culture: Visual Arts, Media and Architecture (VAMA) is an international two-year research Master's programme at VU University Amsterdam. The interdisciplinary programme is aimed at sharpening student's critical and academic skills in the fields of art history, architecture history, visual culture and media studies. VAMA focuses on recent developments in these fields from both theoretical and historical perspectives and examines the complex relationships between visual art, architecture and media.

Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam: Call for admission

INSIDE THE WHITE WHALE. Temporary spaces for young entrepreneurship, the Work Shop. Photo: Corneel de Wilde – Kogelvis Fotografie. © Sandberg Instituut/Vacant NL.

The Sandberg Instituut offers Master’s programmes in Fine Arts, Applied Arts (Dirty Art Department), Design (Think Tank for Visual Strategies), and Interior Architecture (Studio for Immediate Spaces).

Since September 2011 the institute offers temporary two-year programmes. 

Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden

Umeå School of Architecture offers two master programmes. Both programmes are two years with instructions entirely in English.

The master programme Laboratory for Immediate Architectural Intervention is structured around the idea of architectural intervention, interrogated in relationship to its duration and effects in and around the community where it takes place; indeed, in it its potential to create community.

The master programme Laboratory for Sustainable Architectural Production explores sustainable architecture in a holistic way, including cultural, social and economic sustainability. We investigate and design urban environments and contextual building structures.

Art and the Public Domain

Phytosensors detecting toxicity released from a flash flood along the Sudbury River. "The Cloud of Unknowing", a project by Dan Borelli (MDesS '12), focuses on the impact of climate change and subsequent extreme events on existing contaminated sites such as the Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump in Ashland, MA

Seeking to engage with the public and social realm—physical or virtual—with a view to shaping and transforming human action and historical experience, the Art and the Public Domain concentration of the Masters in Design Studies (MDesS) program gathers creative and ambitious individuals from all backgrounds and academic disciplines with a keen interest in contemporary issues of urban, historical, aesthetic, and technological culture, and with a predilection for intervention, exhibition, and public work.

Clean Beaches Design Challenge

Cultural Entrepreneurship students investigate mircroplastic debris on an Oregon Beach. Photo: Laura DeVito '13

The Master of Fine Arts in Collaborative Design at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in partnership with SOLVE is issuing the Clean Beaches Design Challenge, inviting teams of college students to design innovative solutions to clean up tsunami and other marine debris on Oregon beaches.

Master of Design Futures

Still from they are burning our boats video, Courtesy of Design Futures

The Master of Design Futures offers a radical, challenging and exciting alternative to design education where design thinking, research and practice are learned in a rigorous and experimental context.