Shaping the future – a thousand students, teachers and staff working and studying at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design make the institution a multi-faceted learning, teaching, and research community. It addresses and drives today’s socially relevant discourses in theory and practice, thus contributing significantly to the shape of tomorrow’s cultures.
Design, art, along with digital and analogue media are hallmarks of the Academy lifeworld. Artists and designers critically shape the course of cultural developments and advance social visions for the future. Against the backdrop of the challenges of our times, graduates from art and design universities play a key role in society.
Kirsten M. Langkilde (Director, FHNW Academy of Art and Design)
Our range of studies
Seven BA and four MA courses in Art, Design, and Art and Design Education open up a wide scope of career prospects.
As part of our comprehensive cultural programme comprising symposia, conferences, exhibitions, and lecture series, we invite you to see how innovative everyday objects and applications come about. You will encounter emerging creative positions by young artists, experience how art and design influences cultural development, and learn how successful business models can be developed and established on the market.
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.
Note: Access by car for people with disabilities Choose the access via Florenz-Strasse in the direction of the tower block (Building D). To lower the bollard at the gates of the Campus of the Arts, please ring the bell. You will be connected to our reception in Building D.
