Art and design, and imparting their contents open up new ways of perceiving and shaping the world. Learning in art and design is marked by an intense experience of self-agency and dealing with highly diverse contexts. The Institute of Arts and Design Education is an open community comprising students, life-long learners, practitioners and researchers from a wide range of local and global education environments.
We contextualize the acquired knowledge in the relevant cultural, societal, and educational fields of action.
A BA degree in Arts and Design Education entitles graduates to take up professional work in the socio-cultural field as well as in connection with exhibitions, youth work, off-spaces, and extracurricular course work. The cross-departmental scheme CoCreate is an innovative learning format in which students team up in interdisciplinary project groups to work on topics of high societal relevance. A MA degree in Arts and Design Education / FHNW School of Education Advanced Teaching Diploma entitles graduates to teach at high schools and to engage in research work at a university or a similar educational institution.
The CAS “Kunst kann” (Art can) opens up new perspectives on art, student creativity, and creating together as a team.
Art and Design Education BA
The development of a broad interdisciplinary spectrum of competences as basis for teaching and educational work in art and design.
The Kunst Kann CAS opens up new perspectives on participants‘ own artistic work and shared creative endeavours with others. Participants will be introduced to ...
The Innovation Lab focuses on educational issues and the impact of art and design-based practices, and develops therefrom innovative teaching formats such as ...
The Learning Lab Arts and Design stands for a critical examination and documentation of teaching and learning practices in Art and Design on the basis of ...
The FoodCultureLab is an experimental kitchen and provides space for exploring food cultures by way of interdisciplinary projects, applied research, and ...
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern SwitzerlandAcademy of Art and Design,
Institute Art and Design Education (IADE)
Building: A 1.18Oslo-Strasse 3CH - 4142 Münchenstein near Basel
