What is Creative Technology?

A game played on an interactive LED floor that helps patients convalesce. A wrist band that enables you to track down your friends at a festival. A language test for pre-schoolers using eye tracking. These are all examples of projects carried out by students in our Bachelor?s programme Creative Technology. What will you come up with?

This English-taught Creative Technology programme at the University of Twente (UT) challenges you to harness technology for developing innovations that consumers and organizations really need. Are you an out-of-the-box thinker eager to make a difference in society? Are you daring and interested in smart technology, new media and design? Then Creative Technology could be just the ticket for you.?

Throughout the many hands-on projects typical of theprogrammes at Twente, you will develop technical knowledge and skills, as well as the ability to understand how technology influences humans, design and creative processes. In our Smart Experience Laboratory (Smart XP) you will have room to discover how to turn a question or an opportunity into an appealing prototype.

Careers

The UT Bachelor?s in Creative Technology will turn you into a designer with technical expertise and a sensitivity to social developments. You will work on the cutting edge of high technology while keeping a close eye on the human factor.?

There are plenty of career opportunities that will help you to create your own future. Fancy becoming the creative mind behind a technological breakthrough? Or would you like to design a robot with emotions to assist the elderly? Maybe you are more interested in designing (serious) games, developing new applications for the consumer market or starting your own business!?

Whether you?re destined to become a creative genius, a game/application designer or a developer of robots or environmental systems, you?ll be a true asset to employers in the creative sector and in the areas of new media, product development, and communications. Some of our students have started a company that manufactures a ?natural home automation system?. Others have launched a 3D printing platform. It?s all about surpassing your imagination, using existing technology and developing fascinating high-tech applications while keeping the user perspective in focus!