Apply to MFA Programme in Design with Specialisation in Embedded Design

Portfolio instructions

Your portfolio must include:

1. Portfolio
2. Design Reflection

Important things to consider

• Your application must be written in English.  
• If you include projects or work in your portfolio created in collaboration with others, briefly describe the nature of the collaboration and your individual contribution.
• If you have used generative AI to create or process images, sound, or text we ask that you describe how you used it.  

Instructions 

1. Portfolio 
   Submit three work samples.  
   In the portfolio, you are required to include work samples from previous academic and/or professional activities to illustrate your skills in creative, artistic, and design work. It must show the direction of your interest in design as well as skills in visualisation, materialisation and communication. Work samples should include brief explanatory texts as well as drawings, images, or photographs, and can be in video format. Each project must be presented with a title and purpose, show the design process with the methods and materials used, and year of completion. You can include work that has been done as a teamwork, for which you are to provide information on your role in the project.  
   
   The following formats are accepted: PDF: Size A4, max 15 pages, max 10MB, Video- or audio files: max 2 files, max 250 MB each and max 5 minutes in length. 
    

• Design Reflection - Max length 3000 characters 
  A key feature of the programme is the practical design projects that students work with, as are discussions on the role of these design projects in and for society. In the project reflection we ask you to take starting point in a project that you have worked with, or imagine a project that you wish to initiate, to reflect on the role of design and designers in society. Feel free to use images or visualisations from you own work as references. The project you use as starting point for your reflection can be one of the projects included in your portfolio 
  
  In the reflection you are also to describe what you are expecting to learn or gain by participating in the MFA with specialization in Embedded Design and  
  how you want to integrate the skills and knowledge from the programme in your future design practice.  
  
  Relate to at least three of the following concepts in your reflection:
• Sustainability
• Ethics
• Inclusion
• Collaboration
• Participation
• Interdisciplinarity
• Criticality
• Design in organisational settings 

Submit your portfolio

Submit your portfolio through SlideRoom

Before the deadline

• You can start your application at any time during the application period.
• You can save your progress, log out and return later.
• SlideRoom closes at midnight (CET) on the day of the application deadline.
• You will receive a confirmation email when your portfolio has been submitted.
• We recommend uploading your materials at least 24 hours before the deadline.
• Portfolios cannot be submitted after the deadline.

Assessment

Your application will be assessed based on the following criteria: 

1. Understanding the role of design in society
2. Ability to lead and communicate a design process
   
   The assessment is made by an admissions jury consisting of the Programme Director and representatives from the department.