🏫 University of Groningen ⏰ 3 Years 🎓 Full time, On-Campus 🌐 English
Description
If you have a special interest in the living environment, and you aspire to combine analytical thinking with creative design, then Spatial Planning and Design is the field for you.What effect will climate change have on our future cities and rural areas? How can you develop sustainable strategies and designs for new and existing urban systems? How do you deal with a complex built environment and related planning processes? Planners are asked to translate this kind of spatial transformation into new opportunities to enhance the quality of life.The Bachelor’s degree program in Spatial Planning and Design (in Dutch: Technische planologie) revolves around physical and institutional design. The course units are related to spatial planning and design, water management, infrastructure and environmental planning, spatial computer programs, complex decision-making, and academic research.You will work in virtual realities but also go on excursions to see spatial projects in real life. There will be an opportunity to develop your personal interests via elective course units. You complete your Bachelor’s degree with a research project. Excellent students can take part in a more in-depth program at Honours College, which has a wider range of topics.Why study this program in Groningen?The Bachelor’s degree program in Spatial Planning and Design is unique within the Netherlands. It covers a wide range of topics and gives students the opportunity to explore their own fields of interest within physical and institutional design. This degree program gives you the opportunity to learn from internationally renowned and highly trained teachers.ResearchSpatial Planning and Design is based on research. Not only are you educated to become a researcher, but lecturers also use their own research and others to keep the education as recent and relevant as possible. The education you receive is therefore partly based on the research being done at the faculty right now!Read more on the institution’s website