The MAST consortium combines a host of hi-profile institutions with excellent references across the sci-art-tech triangle, and some truly remarkable individuals — a mix that should attract the best student candidates and provide most meaningful and ambitious solutions to the MAST challenge! Partner roles in the MAST consortium typically combine academic, managerial and professional (business) profiles with two institutions of … Continued
The Mast Thesis Challenge looks at ways we can design work, collectives, or enterprises to ensure a more inclusive, supportive, verdant, and open society. Along the way we explore how key choices in our art, design, and technology help or harm a virtuous circle of progressive European social values. As Europe (and the world) is being destabilized … Continued
AIMS, METHODS AND CONTENT The goal of this workshop is to give an overview about the concept of business modelling which helps to develop an idea with using the method of Business Model Canvas. Besides the students will learn about how to work on a concept/ project and reach the goals with the method of … Continued
In a world of systemic crisis, with an apparent need for coexistence, conviviality and new ways of acting, the MAST project sets sails to explore alternative routes for a better living. Fostering ideas around the future worker’s identity the participants will reflect and build on own change-stimulating personal and social skills, both as leaders and creators within … Continued
SUMMARY The Studio course connects students and mentors from different disciplines into a cohesive topic-based and research-oriented production, usually in the form of a workshop, supported by online collaboration before and after a series of intensive live meetings. In terms of themes and topics the content is thus opened and completely dependent on particular needs … Continued
PPP seeks to equip students with the ethical, organization, and practical knowledge required to imagine and develop products that advance and strengthen “social Europe” values of inclusion, diversity, and equality. AIMS, METHODS AND CONTENT Combining visiting lectures, hands-on laboratory work, and art & design methods, the class tightly integrates critical discourse with prototyping and speculation. … Continued
Diverse modes of implementation The developed master study module will comprise of a total of 30 ECTS of MAST-specific courses ranging from 4 to 8 ECTS such as workshops, seminars, and an industry-challenge course, tandem mentorships etc., mostly focusing on the practical competencies, trans-disciplinary knowledge and transferable skills. International experience in the Art-Science-Technology (A-S-T ) realms … Continued
The MAST project is developing an applied study module at the intersections of Art, Science and Technology, combining methodologies and practices that intertwine the academic sphere closely with the Culture and Creative Sectors. Nurturing a critical perspective on the historical, economical, social and above all cultural relevance of this interdisciplinary blend within the new digital … Continued