Masterstudio Industrial Design MA

Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel

The Masterstudio Industrial Design programme is positioned around three current research focal points: Digital Integration, Design Cultures, and Circular Design. Discourses on global crises such as climate change and social inequality provide the framework for concrete research questions and design solutions around sustainability and ecology, future-shaping and technology, interaction and materiality.

Steckbrief

ECTS-Punkte
90
Abschluss
Master of Arts FHNW
Studienbeginn
September (week 38)
Dauer
3 to 4 Semester
Studienmodus
Vollzeit
Unterrichtssprache
Englisch
(
English (B2 or equivalent)
)
Semestergebühr
CHF 750 (CH); CHF 1.000 (EU); CHF 1.250 (Not-EU/EFTA)
Anmeldegebühr
CHF 200.- (incl. aptitude assessment and enrolment)
Lernsetting
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Auslandaufenthalt
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Ort
Basel

Zukunftsaussichten

Goals and benefits

The goal of the programme is to develop an independent, research-oriented design practice that is oriented towards current social, economic, political and ecological issues. You will develop a socially relevant and research-based question, work on it individually or collectively through various practices of experimental design and create a public for your results with the help of publishing tactics.

Career prospects

Graduates are qualified to work as designers in cultural or business settings and assume responsible positions in full-service design agencies; they can set up their own business, either alone or in a team, or they can choose to pursue a career in teaching and research. Students with an MA degree command cross-disciplinary skills that qualify them for professional work as a designer in a design agency, for a career in teaching and research, for free-lance work, either alone or in a team, or to set up a business of their own.

Target audience

The programme is intended for people who have earned a BA in industrial or product design, designers, and applicants from related or design-oriented programmes.

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Aufbau und Inhalte

The Masterstudio Industrial Design programme is positioned around three current research focal points: Digital Integration, Design Cultures, and Circular Design. Discourses on global crises such as climate change and social inequality provide the framework for concrete research questions and design solutions around sustainability and ecology, future-shaping and technology, interaction and materiality. We take a stand on this, define values and reposition design. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary modules from the three masterstudios complement and deepen the perspectives of design gained. The programme encourages students individually and with regard to their professional or research-oriented careers with ‘Advanced Design’. Advanced Design describes actions and attitudes. Which society in which environment needs which design solutions? We take on the position of “extrapreneurs”, who are looking for better, more sustainable design strategies or products. Instead of following the entrepreneurial dynamics of maximisation, we assume a collaborative, systemic, inclusive and sustainable economy.

Masterstudio Design

The Masterstudio Design builds on existing knowledge and previously acquired skills. Students actively engage with their own design approach in terms of methodology and content within a larger context. The three studios (Fashion Design, Industrial Design and Scenography) are designed to be permeable and cross-disciplinary in order to make full use of the potential of design as a practice that shapes living spaces and thus shapes the environment for the pressing issues of our time.

Infrastructure

With its studios and central Campus.Workshops, HGK offers ideal conditions for combining craft curiosity, the acquisition of technical skills, and the necessary digital know-how. In addition, all students have their own 24/7 workspace in one of the spacious studios. In addition, the programme Interior Design & Scenography features an analogue and a digital workshop. The facilities are open to students 365 days a year.

Vertiefungen

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International

International students can find further information on the website of the International Office of the HGK Basel.

Leitung und Dozierende

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Voraussetzungen, Zulassung, Eignungsabklärung

The study programme

The Masterstudio Industrial Design programme is positioned around three current research focal points: Digital Integration, Design Cultures, and Circular Design. Discourses on global crises such as climate change and social inequality provide the framework for concrete research questions and design solutions around sustainability and ecology, future-shaping and technology, interaction and materiality. We take a stand on this, define values and reposition design. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary modules from the three masterstudios complement and deepen the perspectives of design gained. The programme encourages students individually and with regard to their professional or research-oriented careers with ‘Advanced Design’. Advanced Design describes actions and attitudes. Which society in which environment needs which design solutions? We take on the position of “extrapreneurs”, who are looking for better, more sustainable design strategies or products. Instead of following the entrepreneurial dynamics of maximisation, we assume a collaborative, systemic, inclusive and sustainable economy.

Masterstudio Design

The Masterstudio Design builds on existing knowledge and previously acquired skills. Students actively engage with their own design approach in terms of methodology and content within a larger context. The three studios (Fashion Design, Industrial Design and Scenography) are designed to be permeable and cross-disciplinary in order to make full use of the potential of design as a practice that shapes living spaces and thus shapes the environment for the pressing issues of our time.

Target audience

The programme is intended for people who have earned a BA in industrial or product design, designers, and applicants from related or design-oriented programmes. 

Educational goal and career prospects

Goals and benefits

The goal of the programme is to develop an independent, research-oriented design practice that is oriented towards current social, economic, political and ecological issues. You will develop a socially relevant and research-based question, work on it individually or collectively through various practices of experimental design and create a public for your results with the help of publishing tactics.

Career prospects

Graduates are qualified to work as designers in cultural or business settings and assume responsible positions in full-service design agencies; they can set up their own business, either alone or in a team, or they can choose to pursue a career in teaching and research. Students with an MA degree command cross-disciplinary skills that qualify them for professional work as a designer in a design agency, for a career in teaching and research, for free-lance work, either alone or in a team, or to set up a business of their own.

Infrastructure

With its studios and central Campus.Workshops, HGK offers ideal conditions for combining craft curiosity, the acquisition of technical skills, and the necessary digital know-how. In addition, all students have their own 24/7 workspace in one of the spacious studios. In addition, the programme Interior Design & Scenography features an analogue and a digital workshop. The facilities are open to students 365 days a year.

Organisatorisches

Getting there

Public transport
The campus is easy to reach by public transport. The stop Freilager on BLT line 11 is immediately in front of the Campus (from Bahnhof SBB in direction Aesch)

By car
Leave the motorway A2 at the junction Basel-St. Jakob and follow the sign Dreispitz. Approaching from Münchensteinerstrasse enter the Dreispitz complex through Gate 13 and park your car in one of the public car parks (Ruchfeld or Leimgrube). When setting your satnav, please note that the Freilager complex is part of the municipality of Münchenstein, Canton Basel-Landschaft.

Access by car for people with disabilities
Choose the access via Florenz-Strasse in the direction of the High-rise building (Building D). To lower the bollard at the gates of the campus please ring the bell. You will be connected to our reception in Building D.

Map as PDF

Accessibility

The buildings of the HGK Basel are accessible by wheelchair, stroller,  and for people with walking difficulties. The entrance to the highrise building (Building D) is at ground level, the studio building (Building A) can be reached via a ramp. There is at least one lift in both buildings.

Access by car for people with disabilities: See Gender-neutral toilets: See ‘Getting there.

Toilets for people with disabilities: 

Highrise building (Building D): Ground floor to 8th floor in the centre of the building
Studio building (Building A): Ground floor to 3rd floor, southern section of main corridor

Gender-neutral toilets: See ‘All Welcome WC’.

Parent-child-room: See 'Parent-child-room'.

Postal address

Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Institute Contemporary Design Practices
Freilager-Platz 1
Postfach

CH-4002 Basel

Visitor and delivery address:

Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Institute Contemporary Design Practices

Freilager-Platz 1, Hochhaus: D 4.05
4142 Münchenstein / Basel

T +41 61 228 40 66
F +41 61 467 48 85
M info.iig.hgk@fhnw.ch

Beratung und Info-Anlässe

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