Digital Technologies in Architecture and Design (DTAD)

Are you interested in the interplay between architecture, design and digital technologies? Do you have an affinity for digital applications and methods, and would you like to implement innovative approaches? With its experimental and practice-oriented fields of research, the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism offers exciting new fields of activity and project-oriented studies in cooperation with the Faculty of Media and the Faculty of Art and Design. The degree programme is application-oriented and interdisciplinary, focusing on the penetration and communication of innovative digital technologies and their interaction with societal developments, discourses, and needs (cultural, political, economic, ecological, etc.) in architecture and design. Graduates will be able to handle, penetrate, and apply new digital technologies in an interdisciplinary manner. This includes developing digital innovations in the fields of construction, planning, media, and design, as well as linking them to curatorial or administrative areas. The teaching integrates scientific and economic perspectives aimed at promoting innovative digital concepts in sustainability and transformation to the point of business creation. The Master's programme is English-taught and internationally oriented. The core is team-based and application-oriented project work. To this end, students address changing topics on new digital technologies from various research and application areas for interdisciplinary design and implementation processes. In doing so, they develop fundamental digital and design competencies and skills as well as their own expressions and design approaches (digital literacy). Additional discourse-practical and methodological offerings are provided for the critical contextualisation of the innovations under examination. Special attention is given to medial, experimental, transformative, sustainable, and social aspects. Current topics such as (i) creative digital explorations, (ii) transformative technologies, (iii) collective experiences, (iv) intelligent systems, or (v) digital sustainability are addressed. In-depth study content: The interaction of the different subject areas outlined below allows for a differentiated examination of various issues. Design and Architectural Theory Design and Building Form Studies Computer Science in Architecture Urban Studies and Sociology Interface Design Emerging Technology and Design History and Theory of Cultural Techniques Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)