
Campus.Workshops
The FHNW Academy of Art and Design offers its students, teachers, and staff members excellently equipped workshops for working metal, wood, plastics, and ceramics. In addition, we have the appropriate facilities for rapid prototyping, book binding, screen printing as well as a paint shop and a sculptor’s studio along with a sewing studio.
Following an introductory course, students are free to work independently on study projects, if required, with the support of the respective workshop managers.
We do our best to provide students optimal access to the workshops, especially shortly before submission dates at their respective institutes.
At peak times, the workshops are open seven days a week from 8:30 am to 10 pm.
The workshop managers do their best to supply all the materials required. Should this not be possible for any reason, they will assist the students in ordering the required material, and, according to circumstances, provide a load-carrying bicycle for transport.
Student comments
The Academy's infrastructure is state-of-the-art, and the workshops offer a wide selection of appropriate machines, including competent guidance and support – a place that sparks curiosity and inspires interdisciplinary work. Thanks to the students’ initiative, the openness of the heads of the various institutes, and the commitment of the workshop staff, this is the place for a constructive dialogue. Studying means searching for new answers all the time. During work on my degree project, I got the chance to think outside the box thanks to the support of the workshop staff; this encouraged me to venture into media and methods of implementation that I was completely unaware of at the time.
Campus workshops. That sounds like a lot of work but, actually, it means much more: inspiration, knowledge, exchange, and a good place to meet friends!