All continuing education programmes, Basel Academy of Art and Design

3D digital fashion intensive exploring smart, technical workflows for sustainable design. Participants develop future-focused skills through hands-on experimentation, simulation, and digital garment creation, reducing waste and rethinking fashion through innovation and practice-based learning.

How can art become a force for peace? This programme explores the potential of artistic practice in conflict transformation, community building, and social healing. Through theory, dialogue, and creative action, you develop tools to engage with complex global challenges in ethical and imaginative ways.

How do you speak about your art - and through it? This programme invites you to deepen your artistic practice by connecting making with thinking. Through reflection, dialogue, and critical engagement, you explore your own position as an artist and expand your capacity to act, communicate, and contextualize in contemporary cultural settings.

You're new to entrepreneurship – and want to set things up right now. This course helps founders and startups build their businesses sustainably from the very beginning: with a vibrant culture, a resilient mindset, and a future-proof business model.

What makes a poster unforgettable? In this workshop, participants learn how to transform a clear idea into a visually compelling poster. They work with colour, form, and typography to convey content concisely and develop a unique design style.

As part oft he inter-univeristy CO-Create program, wich promotes cooperative and interdisciplinary practices, this program fosters circular design. For us as designers, actions such as care, repair, refresh, recreation, or remanufacturing are vital circular practices to relearn.

From online typesetting techniques and accessibility requirements to visual experiments:In this workshop, we will learn HTML and CSS in order to understand the specific characteristics of online typography and apply them in a functional and experimental way in our designs.

Today’s global challenges call for the entrepreneurial solutions of tomorrow. This course provides the foundation for combining social value with economic sustainability. Using practical entrepreneurship tools, you will significantly expand your skills.

«Tender Computing» is a concept and workpractice that explores a soft, experimental and playful way of Physical Computing, which means the creative design of interactive objects and spaces. The module provides a project based introduction to Physical Computing and the Tender Concept in a curated lab-like atmosphere.