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.
Factsheet
- Degree
- CAS Certificate of Advanced Studies FHNW
- Learning environment
- Onsite and Online
- ECTS points
- 15
- Next start
- Rolling intake possible
- Teaching languages
- German / English
- Venues
- Basel, Campus Dreispitz
- Fee
- CHF 7000-8000
At a glance
- Strengthen your artistic voice through reflective practice. You explore and articulate your own artistic position across disciplines, media, and methods.
- Engage with contemporary artistic discourse. Through seminars, lectures, and dialogue, you critically connect your practice to current cultural and theoretical debates.
- Develop your project within a supportive learning environment. You work individually and collaboratively, guided by experienced mentors and peers from diverse backgrounds.
- Combine artistic making with analytical thinking. You investigate the relationship between doing and knowing, and learn to situate your work within broader social and artistic contexts.
- For artists, educators, and cultural practitionersIdeal for professionals who wish to deepen their practice, refine their language, and expand their capacity for critical reflection.
With the CAS «Artistic Literacy» participants are introduced to artistic, design-led, communicative educational strategies. They acquire the ability to make creative methods effective for social processes. The topics offered integrate methods from the fields of communication, digitality, fine arts, design, art education and participatory practices. The courses may be combined to form an individual continuing education program according to the participant’s goals. The CAS «Artistic Literacy» is taught by experienced international arts and design professionals, experienced educators, established artists, and lecturers from HGK Basel FHNW.
Aims and benefits
Participants gain reflective experience with their own artistic modes of expression and acquire the ability to shape communicative, artistic and design processes. They acquire skills for a competent handling of diverse analog and digital methods of art, culture and design education as well as their application in social and cultural practices. The participants learn how to initiate discussions about design processes in diverse social contexts through artistic, educational, and communicative strategies. They deepen their knowledge of diverse communicative and digital competencies and acquire know-how in networking with various target groups. Participants practice integrating their artistic and cultural processes as open, experimental participatory work.
Target audience
No prior artistic or technical knowledge is required. All people working in educational, artistic, cultural and communicative contexts are welcome: Teachers, mediators, social workers, cultural mediators, communication experts, FAGE, coaches, team builders, people interested in art, design, museums and culture, etc.
Structure and programme contents
Assemble your personal CAS continuing education from our current workshop modules.
The goal is to earn 10 ECTS over workshop weeks of 2 ECTS each, or half-week workshops of 1 ECTS each. Your chosen workshops are followed by the final module with an integrated certificate thesis about an individual project worth 5 ECTS credits. The final module includes five individual 90-minute coaching sessions. Successful completion of the final module leads to the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS HGK FHNW «Artistic Literacy».
For the CAS Artistic Literacy, the Institute Arts and Design Education cooperates with the House of Electric Arts Basel, the University of Social Work FHNW, Monte Verità and Digital Identities.
Elective Modules
The Multispecies Spaces Lab
Herstellung von Negativformen für Keramikguss
Stuckmarmor im technischen Gestalten
Diskriminierungskritische Redaktionsarbeit
Grounded Transformation: Gestaltung als Prozess des Wandels
Poster Design
Hacking Gutenberg
Generative AI in the Context of Art and Design
Tender Computing
UX/UI Design
Creative Coding
Inquiry by Design
Type Design - Variable Font
Final module with integrated certificate thesis
After successful completion of a total of 10 ECTS via participation in modules/workshops of 1–2 ECTS each from the continuing education program of the HGK Basel, it is possible to participate in an individual six-month final module with integrated certificate thesis worth 5 ECTS. This final module supports the participants in their individual artistic and creative mediation projects or in their cultural practice. Prof. Dr. Dorothée King and her team are available as mentors for five individual coaching sessions.
With this, participants achieve a total of 15 ECTS credits and receive the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS «Artistic Literacy» of the Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE) of the HGK Basel FHNW.
The CAS programme is open to persons with a university entrance qualification.
Requirements and admission
The CAS programme is open to people who have gained entry to higher education.
Organisational matters
Fees
Final module with integrated certificate thesis with Prof. Dr. Nicolaj van der Meulen and team to achieve the CAS Artistic Literacy: CHF 3500.
Booking during a workshop season:
2 – 2.5 days: CHF 500
2 x 2.5 days / 1 week: CHF 900
2 weeks: CHF 1700
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