The personal learning route Media Designing (formerly Ä6) is a new form of education within SintLucas in which there is maximum space for your learning process. You make your own choices when it comes to projects, your learning location and, for example, your time schedule. In this learning route to media design, personal learning is the starting point.
Experimenting with different media from a goal you set yourself. Designing a game, branding your own clothing brand, developing an installation or music video from your passion for music, or starting a collaboration to set up your own business as a media designer.
Open day
2 November 2025 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
31 January 2026 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Study evenings
A study evening is an evening where you are introduced to our school and MBO programmes. A study evening is organised on a smaller scale than an open day. Our study choice evenings take place on: 10 March, 16 April and 19 May 2026.
Cluster
Design, Media & Technology
Training duration
4 years (with the option to accelerate or decelerate)
Locations
Eindhoven and Boxtel
Admission requirements
During the Media Design programme, you can opt for the personal learning route. The intake moment for this learning route is twice a year. When you start the learning route, you can do a four-week trial run to see whether this form of education suits you. You can always return to regular education.
Diploma
Media designer
Training certificate number: 25633
Publication nomination education award
From the early stages, several researchers have been involved in the development of the personal learning route. This development has continued steadily through collaborations with the practical department of meaningful creativity of SintLucas, MBO2030, MU hybrid arthouse and Ruimtemakers van Nimeto. We focus on various educational aspects: formative testing, dialogic validation, self-regulated learning, feedback, positioning and profiling and coaching. From the design phase of the learning route, from September 2021, Rachelle van Harn has been involved in the academic support of the learning route as a researcher. The current research and our approach has resulted in several publications, which you can download here. Also included are the following three videos: video Ä6, video Wandering, Video Image Crackers.
What am I doing?
Students develop into people who independently address experts inside and outside SintLucas, enter into collaborations and share inspiration. People with creative self-confidence, who think critically, are resilient and take full ownership of their own learning process.
Your interests and motivation determine your learning route, which projects you do, where and with whom. The programme does not attach itself to specific media or creative disciplines. You develop professional skills by making choices within the entire breadth of the creative sector, such as: image research, typography, colour, interaction, sound and 3D design. General subjects, such as maths, Dutch and English, challenge you to apply what you have learned within your projects.
How do I learn?
You set your own learning goals, gain experiences and reflect on them in your learning plan. This is how you build your own portfolio.
You can address your learning questions to teachers and experts within SintLucas or, for example, in the business world. Moreover, you gain experience in the professional field during work placements and projects. You can also choose from a wide range of master classes, workshops, training courses and excursions within and outside SintLucas to expand your knowledge and skills.
How will you be guided?
The personal learning route has no classes, but core groups. A core group consists of six to ten students of different ages and with different interests, who learn from and with each other. You have regular meetings with your core coach.
When and where do I learn?
You will not have a fixed schedule, but you will work agenda-driven with a number of set times where we learn together.
After SintLucas, what then?
In the personal learning route, we will work together to develop your creative skills and personal skills, such as creative self-confidence, which will enable you to enter the professional field or start your next study with conviction. From graphic designer to interaction designer, from filmmaker to organiser of artistic events, anything is possible. The value of your diploma is determined by your portfolio, with which you can profile and position yourself within the creative work field.
How does application and admission work?
If you are interested in starting at this learning route, apply for the Media Design programme. Read more about application and admission here.
The intake moment for the personal learning route is twice a year. When you start with this learning route, you can do a four-week trial run to see whether this form of education suits you. You can always return to regular education.
Want to know more?
In practice
Exhibition Dutch Design Week
Students from the learning route had the opportunity to show their own work during Dutch Design Week. For this, some worked together with students from the design academy at The Glassroom in the city centre where work will be on display more often!
And in the exhibition Guess What, which was on display throughout DDW, students from the bachelor course Visual communication/3D Design, learning route Ä6 and Spatial Design showed what they worked hard on last school year. Almost 4,000 visitors managed to find their way to this exhibition.
