Minor Inclusive Placemaking
What is your favourite place? And what makes you feel comfortable in this place? In the Inclusive Placemaking minor you will discover why certain places are irreplaceable, and learn how to design places where people feel welcome to live, learn, work, and play.
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Choosing a minor is an important decision. That's why we will help you make your choice.
Why choose this minor?
- You will learn how to design and empower community-centred destinations
- You will become a visionary placemaker, making places irreplaceable
- It goes from urban planning and design to sociology, anthropology and human geography
About this minor
Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine a public place as the heart of the community to live, work and play in. Within this minor, the multidisciplinary team inspires you to become involved in placemaking for the future.
You will learn how to improve and shape a location by means of interventions, either physical or digital ones. This may range from communal gardens, art murals, community libraries or pop-up events with the aim to improve a neighbourhood, city, or region.
These interventions can benefit various stakeholders - for example by enhancing the wellbeing of local residents, increasing visitor satisfaction, attracting (international) talents, and contributing to the environmental sustainability of a destination. The central point is always the local community: any intervention needs to be designed starting from the locals, and having them as an expert.
In this minor, you will tap and develop your creative talents, learn to observe, to listen and not to judge, and to emphatise. You will be asked to be visionary.
After this minor
Depending on your personal background and development, you will have the opportunity to work as a community builder, spatial experience manager, design thinker, innovator, or urban planner at municipalities, public bodies, consultancies or landscape architecture offices.
Practical information
When
Monday 1 September 2025 – Friday 30 January 2026
Where
All classes and meetings will take place on the BUas campus in Breda.
Teaching method
We work with the flipped classroom concept and offer a variety of workshops, (guest) lectures from industry and academia.
How to apply?
You can choose this minor if you study at BUas, but students from other higher education institutes are also warmly invited to join. This makes for a diverse and inspiring classroom!
- How to apply: BUas students
For BUas students, the application option in Osiris opens from March. When you apply in Osiris you can indicate two preferences, these can be two different minors at BUas, but you should also indicate if you prefer to take an external minor.
Please note that application will be open from 24 February to 28 March 2025 and that applicants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
- How to apply: non-BUas students
All information regarding the minors for 2025 -2026 is available on Kies op Maat. From 3 February to 16 May, the application option and thus the download of the learning agreement will be open on Kies op Maat.
The full step-by-step plan:
- Download the learning agreement on Kies op Maat. Ask your own university of applied sciences to sign the learning agreement for approval.
- Start your application via Studielink – this is possible until 27 June. Go to the Study Programmes tab and click 'add new enrolment application'. Then click at 'Educational institution' on Breda University of Applied Sciences and enter 'Minor' or 'KOM' as search term. A list of BUas KOM minors per academy will appear. Make sure you apply for the right minor. Click here to see the correct manner to start your application on Studielink. After registering in Studielink you will receive two emails: one confirming your registration with BUas and immediately afterwards an email containing the login codes for and the link to Osiris Registration from BUas. If you do not receive the second e-mail, check your spam first and otherwise send an e-mail to [email protected].
- Receive access to My Online Application. Here you can complete – and keep track of – the next steps of your application.
- Upload the signed learning agreement in My Online Application (note: the learning agreement must be signed by your own university of applied sciences and yourself before uploading it on My Online Application)
- Request ‘Proof of Paid Tuition Fee’ statement. Since you are coming to BUas temporarily for a minor, it is important that you arrange payment with your own university of applied sciences. Once you have arranged payment, you will need to provide BUas with proof by means of a ‘Proof of Paid Tuition Fee’ statement. You can request this statement via Studielink, see the step-by-step plan here. Should it not be possible to request this via Studielink, you will need to contact your university of applied sciences yourself to request this document.
Make sure you complete all steps on time, as mentioned there are deadlines for downloading the learning agreement and starting your application. Once you have made a start in My Online Application, you have until 1 September / the start of the minor at the latest to complete your steps. Please note:
- Some minors have limited numbers of places available. Students will be admitted in order of application.
- If you are a student of an institution affiliated to Kies op Maat, the rules and agreements of Kies op Maat apply. The costs of the minor will be settled between BUas and your home institution. As a student, you won’t notice anything about this.
- If you are a student from a government-funded institution that is not affiliated to Kies op Maat, we will make separate arrangements about financing the minor before the start of the minor.