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Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW

The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW offers a creative environment for studies in art, design and art and design education with a focus on digitality, diversity and sustainability. The central concern is to open up individual freedom for the students and at the same time to create an awareness for living together in social contexts.

Study programmes

Numerous bachelor's and master's degree programmes in art, design, and art and design education open up a wide scope of career prospects.

Study programmes

Continuing Education

Deepen your knowledge and skills in the field of art, design and education by signing into professional continuing education programmes.

Continuing Education

Research & Development

The activities take place in the five institutes of the university and the focus in research is aligned accordingly.

Research & Development

About us

The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW's mission is to educate and train a future generation of independent-minded and competent artists and designers.

About us

Institutes

Institute Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP)

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Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE)

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Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM)

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Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)

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Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN)

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Campus Workshops

The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW offers its students, teachers, and staff members excellently equipped workshops for working with wood, metal, plastic, ...

Campus Workshops

Campus and infrastructure

The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW is located at the Campus Dreispitz in Basel. The studio building, the high-rise building, the Campus.workshops, the FoodCultureLab and the exhibition space ' the TANK ' are all within walking distance of each other around the Freilager-Platz. The high-rise building and the studio building house the various institutes with the study programmes, the media library,  the exhibition and discourse space CIVIC, the general infrastructure as well as the cafeteria and the bistro.

Information on accessibility can be found below.

Basel Media Library

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Campus.Workshops

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FoodCultureLab

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CIVIC

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der TANK

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HGK Basel SPORT

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Café Freilager and Bistro of the Arts

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Parent-Child-Room

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Studi-Lounge

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All welcome WC@HGK Basel

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The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW is located close next to a number o other leading cultural institutions and creative enterprises such as the library of the SfG Basel School of Design, the HeK - House of Electronic Arts Basel, the studios of the international scholarship programme Atelier Mondial, the ImpactHub Basel or the archives of the architectural practice Herzog & De Meuron, Kunsthaus Baselland and Schaulager.

Dreispitz Basel

FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland Basel Academy of Art and Design Freilager-Platz 1 4142 Münchenstein near Basel
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