Programme description
The Bachelor Interactive/Media/Design is offered as a four-year full-time degree programme, that emphasises research and self-development to create a strong and independent design identity.
The structure of the programme can be divided into five main phases: skill development, advanced skill application, research development, exploration of the professional domain, and self-development. At the beginning of the second year, you will start the fully personalised Individual Study Track (IST), which allows for in-depth exploration in a specific field of interest, outside of the I/M/D curriculum.
Programme structure
Find below an overview of the courses per year. For some project examples have a look at the I/M/D Showcase.
In the first year, students explore the entire field of Interactive Media Design, and learn the skills, tools, methods and theories, that will provide the foundation for their professional careers within a rich and inspiring environment of artistic and design creativity.
Courses & ECTS credits 2024-2025
| Courses Semester 1 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Creative Coding | 4 |
| Visual Communication | 5 |
| Art, Design & Identity | 5 |
| Morphology & Materialisation | 4 |
| Theoretical Framework | 5 |
| IMD Project Weeks | 3 |
| Common Ground | 3 |
| Collective | 1 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
| Courses Semester 2 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Electronics | 4 |
| Visual Communication + PPS1 | 5 |
| Art, Design & Identity | 5 |
| Emerging Realities | 4 |
| Theoretical Framework | 5 |
| Build-up Final Exam | 2 |
| Common Ground | 3 |
| Project Week (ABPPW) | 1 |
| Collective | 1 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
Building on the knowledge and skills acquired in the first year, students in the second year gain the confidence and overview to start positioning themselves within the overall design field.
Courses & ECTS credits 2024-2025
| Courses Semester 1 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Interaction Design: Client Assignment | 5 |
| Interactive Textiles & Materials | 5 |
| Design | 4 |
| Emerging Realities | 5 |
| IMD Project Weeks | 3 |
| Studium Generale | 1 |
| Individual Study Trajectory (IST) | 6 |
| Collective | 1 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
| Courses Semester 2 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Writing | 5 |
| PPS2: Client Assignment | 6 |
| Interactive Spatial Design | 6 |
| Electives | 5 |
| Studium Generale | 1 |
| Individual Study Trajectory (IST) | 6 |
| Collective | 1 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
In the third year, students test their acquired knowledge and skills as they go out into the field with an external professional assignment and internship, and subsequently establish their own design identity as they impose their individual signature on their creative work.
Courses & ECTS credits 2024-2025
| Courses Semester 1 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| I/M/D/ Studio | 11 |
| PPS 3: Profiling | 3 |
Writing + Prep thesis | 6 |
| IMD Project Weeks | 3 |
| Individual Study Trajectory (IST) | 6 |
| Collective | 1 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
| Courses Semester 2 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Internship | 29 |
| Collective 6 | 1 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
The final year brings the full realisation and application of the I/M/D trajectory as students make their own independent, professional statement based on a broad and critical understanding of the design field and awareness of their position within this field, an independent creative and conceptual spirit, mastery of design tools, methods and process.
Courses & ECTS credits 2024-2025
| Course Semester 1 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Last Lab: Project | 10 |
| Last Lab: Thesis | 10 |
| PPS4: Network & Positioning | 3 |
| Individual Study Trajectory (IST) | 6 |
| Collective 7 | 1 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
| Courses Semester 2 | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Final Project | 30 |
| Total study points per semester | 30 |
Learning Objectives/Competencies
The final qualifications for the I/M/D study programme are expressed in terms of seven competencies within three domains. The KABK has established these competencies according to the national final qualifications for Educational Profiles for Fine Art and Design programmes.
These competencies form the foundation for the assessment by the teachers at the end of each course, and they are used to evaluate the presentations at the end of each semester. In addition, evaluation sessions are held twice each year, in which students evaluate the programme and suggest improvements.
Students are tested on their development within this range of professional competencies in three domains:
- The artistic-technical domain
- The theoretical domain
- The professional-social domain
Graduates are expected to meet the following final qualifications:
You are able to develop an innovative concept arising from your artistic ambition and research, elaborate it into a distinctive image, product, means of communication or spatial design, and to contextualise it in a meaningful way
You are able to consider, analyse, interpret and assess your own and others' work, and are capable of constructively considering your findings in relation to your own work
You are able to further develop your vision, work and working methods in breadth and depth through an ongoing process of research, and in this way, contribute to your discipline and to society
You are able to establish and maintain an inspirational and functional working environment and to organize your research, work and practice
You are able to effectively present your vision, research and work and engage in a dialogue with clients and other interested parties
You are able to relate your artistic practice to the artistic and social context
You are able to make an independent contribution to a collaborative product or process
Interested in applying?
Admission requirementsOER 2023-2024
Education and Examination Regulations
You can find information about the regulations and provisions dealing with the organisation of the programme and the assessments and examinations related to it in the Education and Examination Regulations (in Dutch: Onderwijs- en examenregeling; OER)
