Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won our December poll as the most desired design school destination in the world. Other contestants were UK Royal College of Art, Parsons the New School for Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Politecnico di Milano and University of the Arts London.
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BE OPEN Academy Poll. Top Creative Discipline for the Future
Sustainable Architecture has been considered the most forward-looking creative discipline today, as voted for by the users of BE OPEN Academy educational portal in November.
BE OPEN Academy Poll. Dream City to Study in
London and Amsterdam have shared the top line of preferences among cities to study creative disciplines in, in our October online poll at BE OPEN Acasemy. New York came second, while Hong Kong, Seoul, Berlin and Barcelona occupied the remaining lines.
BE OPEN Launches Next Global Open Call #BEOPENShadows
BE OPEN has launched its next global open call across social media. It is called ‘BEOPEN Shadows’ and dedicated to the subject of shadows in all fields of art.
According an ancient Roman author Pliny the Elder, the very art of painting originates from trailing the edge of shadow. Later interplay of light and shadow gave birth to the art of photography, while the old fun of making shadows of fingers on the wall has grown into the shadow art.
edX and Kadenze at BE OPEN Academy
BE OPEN Academy partners with leading online platforms, universities and companies around the world to give you the most relevant and varied choice of courses in art, design and architecture possible. We are pleased to inform you that our database has been supplemented with all the online courses related to arts, design and architecture provided by edX and Kadenze.
BE OPEN finished the ranking of courses in architecture and design in CIS, Central Asia, Oceania and Australia
The comprehensive study involved analysis of more than 160 programmes selected from 75 schools from the target regions. Unlike most of the research in the educational sphere, the system developed by BE OPEN evaluates not the schools and their material resources, but the value of educational programmes they offer, i.e. the unique opportunities with which each particular course endows its graduates – not so much in terms of its prestige, as in the breadth of horizons and connections.