Design as a tool for transformation: Students in the Process Design bachelor’s degree at HyperWerk work on collaborative projects and learn self-organization, critical thinking, and collaboration. Hands-on transformative processes are tried out locally and reflected in relation to global crises.
The question that guides us is: How can we use the many possibilities of design to shape life-affirming and resilient ways of living together?
Factsheet
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts FHNW in Process Design
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Learning mode
- Onsite
- ECTS credits
- 180
- Next start
- 14.9.2026
- Duration
- 6 Semester
- Teaching language
- German (B2 or equivalent), partly in English
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Stay abroad
- Possible
- 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 program works with experimental, multimedia design tools to explore new forms of expression, modes of interaction, and fields of action.
- Students develop their own projects and research questions, supported by individual mentoring and close exchange with fellow students and faculty.
- The focus is on the key topics of social justice, sustainability, and digitality.
Why study this?
Goals and benefits
Career prospects
Structure and programme contents
The study programme
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International
International Office
Exchange programmes offer students and staff the opportunity to network and develop both within Switzerland and internationally. The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW maintains partnerships and accredited agreements with universities and academies in Switzerland and abroad.
Requirements and admission
Admission requirements
Information of the aptitude assessment + dates + study regulations
FAQ online registration
Advising and information events
Contact
Team Institut Experimentelles Design und Medienkulturen (IXDM)
- Phone
- +41 61 228 40 66 (Central office)
- info.ixdm.hgk@fhnw.ch
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Registration
Process Design at HyperWerkSeptember 2026
- Date
- 14.9.2026
- Duration
- 6 Semester
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Application start
- 1.11.2025
- Final application date
- 1.3.2026
- Notes
- The application deadline for starting studies in the autumn semester 2026/27 has passed. To check whether an application already started on ONLA can still be completed, or whether a late application might still be possible in exceptional cases, please contact admission.BA-prozessgestaltung.hgk@fhnw.ch
Process Design at HyperWerkSeptember 2027
- Date
- 20.9.2027
- Duration
- 6 Semester
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Application start
- 1.11.2026
- Final application date
- 15.2.2027
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