Why choose Mapping Research?

If you want to know how research and design can reinforce each other, or you would like to learn how, as a designer or artist, you can contribute to thinking about perspectives of value to future generations, the English-taught Mapping Research minor is for you.

We invite you to reconsider your future position as a spatial professional, by exploring, experimenting and voicing what needs to happen now and how it will benefit future generations.

"The minor offers a strong balance between theory, collaboration, designing through making and understanding our discipline. There is a lot of room to pursue your fascinations, which opens new ways of relating to space."

Yvon Willemsen – 2025 minor participant – Interior Architecture bachelor’s programme

This minor is intended for students of ArtEZ and other art and design programmes who:

want to discover how to use research within their own practice;
are interested in collaborating with students and lecturers from different disciplines;
like to ask critical questions and explore new perspectives;
want to contribute to a forward-looking and socially engaged design process.