Course: Studio/Major of Choice credits: 5

Course code
VGVP25SMC4
Name
Studio/Major of Choice
Study year
2025-2026
ECTS credits
5
Language
Dutch, with parts in English, English
Coordinator
B. Bont
Modes of delivery
  • Assignment
  • Peer feedback
  • Self-study
  • Tutorial
Assessments
  • Studio/Major of Choice - Work discussion

Learning outcomes

Level Orientation (semester 1-2): The student shows insight into the nature of the profession and the tasks, and sensitivity and potential for the continued acquisition of the competences. 

1. ARTISTIC CREATION 

The student can initiate a visual work process and create work in which practice-oriented research has a place. With the work and with a working method, the student creates meaning. 
 
The student uses intuition and imagination during the work and making process. In the work, a story, meaning, way of thinking or intervening becomes manifest, and a voice of its own. The student has a strong understanding of the workings and sensory experiences that the work evokes. 

Dealing with the not-knowing, the unexpected, is inherently linked to the practice of the artist or designer. The student is able to allow and use doubt and uncertainty in erratic work processes. By dealing with risks in the work, the student develops self-confidence to work as an artist/designer in a dynamic world. 

The student works experimentally and inquisitively. While thinking, observing, doing, making, changing, processing, the student develops (artistic) methods and strategies in his own way and can show them. With the help of the students own working method, the student can create alternative solution options, scenarios, images and stories. The student can continue to develop his or her own work and working method, in a dynamic work area. 

Content

You work on the design dilemma your tutors formulated based on the competences of this course, and the content written below. 

You do this in the major you want to choose for in semester 3, diving deeper into its ways of working, media and techniques. Thereby you find out whether it actually fits you. 

You discover how to make good choices in your design process and thus arrive at your own concepts and solutions in medium and form (Studio). 

Your group is mixed now, each student working in their own chosen major. This mix inspires interdisciplinary exchange with your peers.