English:MAD Faculty (Q171063)

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The Media, Arts and Design Faculty, a collaboration between the Limburg-based university colleges of Catholic University College Limburg (KHLim) and Provincial University College Limburg (PHL). Both university colleges are now offering an academic study programme in the field of  'Audio-visual and Visual Arts'. In order to optimize higher education in Limburg, KHLim and PHL, in concert with the universities of Louvain (KUL) and Hasselt (UHasselt), have decided to create a single joint faculty. The MAD-faculty is an important player, both in Flanders and internationally.

The C-mine campus offers the following programmes: Product design, Audio-visual and Visual Arts. In the Audiovisual Arts programme, students can choose between the majors Animation, Television-Film and Communication and Multimedia Design. The Visual Arts programme offers Graphic Design and Photography. The brand-new building on the C-mine campus offers the excellent facilities to meet our demands. At this former coal mine site in Winterslag, Genk, Limburg, a cluster of initiatives is being developed based on the principles of creativity, innovation, design, education, culture and recreation. 

C-md is the master education program for communication and multimedia design. All research projects are concerned with design, new media and social perspective. For C-md students, designing is an interdisciplinary practice. In order to create new media concepts, they draw insights from art, design, audiovisual media, business and social studies. The output is variable: it can be a game, a website, a mobile application, an interactive installation or avant-garde form of interfacing. What connects these products is
the approach, in which graphic, audiovisual, textual and software based elements are joined in an encompassing experience. During the program C-md students are introduced into the field of new media and immediately challenged to learn to think about how existing media and media applications can be modified and/or combined to open up new use and design. This experiment is conducted with a view to joining functionality and aesthetics on the one hand and researching the needs of society on the other hand.