department space&designstrategies

The department is based on the collaboration between two professors from different fields, assistants, external artists and students. Students work in an experimental environment consisting of studios, a (kitchen) laboratory, workshops and spacious presentation and intervention rooms in and around the University of Arts. The central artistic subject, which changes every year, is at the heart of the course. Workshops with artists from the fields of conceptual art, performance, critical design, theory, urbanism, dance and storytelling are integrated into the annual project. Individual projects are developed in an intensive exchange between students and teachers and are supplemented by collective projects (exhibitions, festivals, district projects). At the University of Arts Linz, the department mediates between the artistic, applied and theoretical fields of study. Transdisciplinary work and exchange with other fields of study are supported during the course.

Job profile raum&designstrategies

Graduates of raum&designstrategien work in areas where transdisciplinary work, strategic thinking and a critical-innovative approach to space are required, i.e. in interdisciplinary planning teams for urban and rural spaces, in art education, at the interface between theater, film and (sub-)urban spaces, for festivals or as individual artists. Students gain a basic knowledge of urban and suburban spaces, learn artistic means of interpretation and intervention and try out possibilities of mediation between actors and users in the space. To this end, basic tools are taught, from theoretical, drawing, graphic and technical means to cinematic and performative methods and the planning and construction of spaces on a 1:1 scale.

BA Programme space&design strategies

MA Programme space&design strategies