Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship

Master’s Programme / Architecture + Design Architecture, Design and Business

Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship offers students a master’s education in design or architecture within an interdisciplinary and international environment where strategic design, entrepreneurship and sustainability are key focus areas.

The programme is developed as a joint master’s programme between the Royal Danish Academy and Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Each institution contributes to the programme, including research, knowledge, teaching, facilities, materials and exams. An equal number of students from the Royal Danish Academy and CBS ensures a balanced work environment that supports fluid collaboration.

The programme is structured around project-based modules, where students have the opportunity to work with companies and organisations on real-world challenges — in collaboration with social science students from CBS. The programme is specifically directed to facilitate knowledge exchange between design, architecture and management by arranging constructive meetings through design thinking methods for innovation and entrepreneurship. Throughout the programme there is a strong emphasis on explorative ideation and the development of concrete material strategies and proposals, written analysis, theoretical knowledge and dissemination skills.

Royal Danish Academy students are supervised by studio teachers within their specific field of design and architecture. These students will graduate with a Master’s of Arts in Architecture or Design with a specific focus on prospective challenges and opportunities in a changing society. As designers and architects, they have the ability to translate concepts such as circularity, sustainability, innovation or user understanding into concrete and tactile proposals that can help create real change.

Programme Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship Head of Programme Camilla Hedegaard Møller Education Architecture / Design Degree Master (MA in Architecture / MA in Design) Duration 2 years Location Copenhagen Language English

The Theoretical

Opposite page: ‘Design Challenge’, students from Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Wehlers.

The Strategic

The Spatial

“I was intrigued by the fact that we could combine being an architect and being a strategist and learn how to be competent in both the design and the technicality of architecture as well as learning how to become an entrepreneur. We learn to prepare and submit a technical architectural proposal, but also to zoom out — looking at how this proposal fits into a wider scheme, a broader society and whether it can actually make a difference on an entrepreneurial scale.”

Student / Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship