University master's degrees
University Master's Degree in Design of Spaces

Gain profound knowledge of the humanities and critical thinking. Learn to design spaces from an emotional, sensitive and perceptive dimension, with specific attention put on generating experiences

Content Official Master's Degree in Design of Spaces

Knowledge

  • Establish the advanced concepts of a critical argument in the elaboration of a project or scientific work in the field of spatial design.
  • Contrast the different specific stylistic languages that make up the history of spatial design according to their social and economic context for their correct reinterpretation and adaptation to the task at hand
  • Determine the suitability of the use of the different stylistic languages of spatial design according to the type of project and the needs of the users.
  • Identify the different methods of spatial and environmental conditioning in relation to their viability in the real context of application.
  • Critically identify the constant changes in the current economic, legislative and business environments of the spatial design profession.
  • Understand and use advanced graphic representation tools linked to spatial design, visual communication and the most appropriate sources of information in professional and business environments in order to structure and formulate academic arguments.

Skills

Cognitive skills

  • Adopt a critical awareness and understanding of the existing reality of the spaces for which a design project is conceived and the pre-existence of design projects for these spaces.
  • Establish the most appropriate research methods for the development of academic articles, communication of papers and professional projects related to spatial design.
  • Apply sustainability criteria in the projects carried out and in the development of speculative scientific work in the field of spatial design in accordance with ethical and responsible practice, valuing the social, economic and environmental impact.
  • Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and rights, diversity and democratic values both in the carrying out of projects and production of academic articles on spatial design, as well as in teamwork dynamics.

 

Creative skills

  • Carry out tasks related to advanced spatial design projects, using the appropriate methods and within predetermined and limited time limits, with personal expression and in an autonomous manner.
  • Use spatial materiality and settings according to the specificities of the project, the programme of activities and the characteristics of the client.

 

Problem-solving skills

  • Examine the links between user needs and programme of uses in the scientific field or in the professional practice of spatial design and resolve them in a tactical, strategic and creative way in each of the projects that are carried out through new original methodologies that involve the assumption of risk in complex environments.
  • Implement innovative solutions in the design of alternative spaces to the conventional ones by means of critical positions acquired in new and poorly defined, complex and multidisciplinary environments, with determination and efficiency.

 

Technical and practical skills

  • Experiment with digital spatial design tools, taking into account the client for whom they are intended in order to understand them properly.
  • Plan your own work and that of others adequately  through organisation charts and timetables to achieve effective management and organisation of spatial design projects.

 

Communication skills

  • Communicate information, analysis and conclusions derived from complex problems clearly and concisely, either through written reports, oral presentations of projects or through academic articles and communication of papers related to spatial design.
  • Disseminate the results of research in spatial design that contribute to knowledge to specialised expert audiences, both nationally and internationally.

Competences

  • Formulate a work plan for a project, memoir or scientific article in the field of spatial design, with constancy and flexibility by means of strategic planning to overcome the difficulties that arise during its execution in complex work environments, in teams and negotiation.
  • Validate new research methods determining the creation of tasks on the history, theory and critique of spatial design in the context of spatial problem solving.
  • Design spaces providing conceptual, specific and detailed solutions, with advanced innovative responses to the needs and demands of society in general and of users in particular in the field of spatial design.
  • Develop an ethical and professional awareness in the thematic selection, projection and presentation of scientific academic work in the field of spatial design, with particular attention to the ethical and moral implications of gender inequalities.
  • Plan the technical feasibility of a spatial design project using the appropriate calculation and estimation tools, in relation to its environmental conditioning and comfort.
  • Communicate space design projects in a standardised graphic manner using previously defined techniques and tools, digital or manual, according to their suitability, for the appropriate visualisation by audiences with multidisciplinary profiles and expert audiences.