Experimentation and Innovation (v.20) 

The DRL is a 16-month post-professional design programme leading to a masters of Architecture and Urbanism (MArch) degree. The DRL investigates digital and analogue forms of computation in the pursuit of systemic design applications that are scenario- and time-based. Considering controls systems as open acts of design experimentation, the Design Research Lab examines production processes as active agents in the development of proto-design systems. 

Course Structure

Four terms of study are divided into two phases. Phase I, a three-term academic year beginning each September/October, introduces design techniques and topics through a combination of team-based studio, workshop and seminar courses. In Phase II, beginning the following September/October, teams carry forward their Phase I work in the form of comprehensive thesis design projects. At the end of January these projects are presented to a panel of distinguished visiting critics, after which each team documents their 16 months of design research work in a hardbound book.