The Design Products Department recognises that design is an activity that fundamentally shapes our world and influences the processes of change. We aim for our students to find their own place, from where they can lead or contribute to these processes.

Although there is a focus on product and furniture design, we do not see any limitations to our field, understanding very well that most of tomorrow’s products and services do not yet exist today. As we are living in a rapidly changing world, we want to be forward-thinking and engage with new possibilities. We aim to engage with design as a cultural activity in the context of art, sociology, the environment, humanity, technology, and diverse forms and scales of production. The department has a strong culture of experimentation, innovation and debate. We see these as tools or systems to develop our thinking about design, and even more, what design can be.