The Masterstudio Industrial Design programme is positioned around three current research focal points: Digital Integration, Design Cultures, and Circular Design. Discourses on global crises such as climate change and social inequality provide the framework for concrete research questions and design solutions around sustainability and ecology, future-shaping and technology, interaction and materiality.
Factsheet
- Degree
- Master of Arts FHNW in Masterstudio Design
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Learning mode
- Onsite
- ECTS credits
- 90
- Next start
- 20.9.2027
- Duration
- 3 to 4 Semester
- Teaching language
- English (B2 or equivalent)
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Application fee
- CHF 200.- (incl. aptitude assessment and enrolment)
- Semester fee
- CHF 750 (CH); CHF 1.000 (EU); CHF 1.250 (Not-EU/EFTA)
At a glance
- The focus is on the research areas of digital integration, design cultures and circular design.
- The programme encourages students individually and with regard to their professional or research-oriented careers
- The Masterstudio Industrial Design assumes a collaborative, systemic, inclusive and sustainable economy.
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Why study this?
Goals and benefits
Career prospects
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Structure and programme contents
The study programme
Target audience
Infrastructure
Masterstudio Design
Collaboration mit Mammut, projekt von Helen Grüninger und Stephan Herger, be aware 
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International
International Office
Unveiling FC Basel’s 2025/26 KITS
Livia Simoni, Connor Muething, Vlad Rüegger, Hasan Rosman, Unveiling FC Basel’s 2025/26 KITS
Leyli Kazemi, FUTURE OF DIAGNOSTICS AND LABORATORY IN 2050, MA Thesis
Requirements and admission
Admission requirements
Information of the aptitude assessment + dates + study regulations
FAQ online registration
Advising and information events
Contact
Prof. Nicole Schneider
- Phone
- +41 61 228 40 44 (Central office)
- nicole.schneider@fhnw.ch
Team Masterstudio Design MA (ICDP)
- Phone
- +41 61 228 40 80 (Central office)
- info.msd.hgk@fhnw.ch
Information events
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Registration
Thank you for your interest in studying at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. The application deadline for a Master's degree programme beginning in the fall semester 2026/27 has expired on March 29, 2026. The next application window for the fall semester 2027/28 opens on November 1, 2026.
Masterstudio Industrial DesignSeptember 2027
- Date
- 20.9.2027
- Duration
- 3 to 4 Semester
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Application start
- 1.11.2026
- Final application date
- 15.3.2027
Institute Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP)
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Basel Academy of Art and Design
Institute Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP)
Freilager-Platz 1, Postfach
4002 Basel
Campus HGK Basel
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Basel Academy of Art and Design
Freilager-Platz 1
4142 Münchenstein near Basel