
Thesis Project Phase 1: Research through Design, Exploration and Experimentation
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Secil Ugur Yavuz Kris Krois Sonia Cabral Matos Program
MA Eco-Social Design Semester
2025/26 WS This course supports students of the Master’s programme in Eco-Social Design developing the focus, vision, and conceptual framing of their thesis projects in progress. Through research through design, real-world engagement, and iterative explorations and experiments, students investigate their topics across theory and practice. The course encourages transdisciplinary and transformative approaches, drawing on strategies, critical theories, embodied practices, magic, and dance as ways of knowing and making. Students' works are embracing uncertainty and complexity, moving from conditions of collapse and despair toward practices of commoning, care, and collective futures.