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Launched by the HGK Basel as a social facility, CIVIC is a physical and digital discourse and exhibition space created for and with students, researchers and staff, as well as for and with the general public. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW (HGK Basel) is located in historic buildings as well as in the new high-rise building on the Dreispitz campus. The Campus.Workshops and the exhibition space 'der TANK' are also located on the site around Freilager-Platz. This forms the center of a neighborhood with actors from art and culture, design and the creative industries. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

The immediate neighbours of the HGK Basel include the exhibition space and library of the Basel School of Design (SfG), the HEK House of Electronic Arts, the archive building of the architects Herzog & de Meuron, the Kunsthaus Baselland, the studios of the international grant programme Atelier Mondial and RadioX. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

Information event of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

Studio Fine Arts degree programme at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

International Workshop Week 2024 with Marjan van Aubel: to mark International Workshop Week, the bachelor’s degree programme in Industrial Design is inviting international designers to Basel to spend a week working with students on current topics. Photo by André Hönicke

Blender und Clo-Workshop Masterstudio Design. Photo: Tiago Aguiart

Creative Coding during the interdisciplinary CoCreate week at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

In close collaboration with experts from the Museum Augusta Raurica, students from the Bachelor Interior Architecture and Scenographyintensively tackled the challenge of presenting the silver treasure in a contemporary context. The result is the exhibition ‘Lost & Found’. Here: ‘Nur Glanz und Gloria’, panel discussion on museum values.

Creative Coding during the interdisciplinary CoCreate week at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

The infrastructure at the HGK Basel with its own workplaces for students enables a high level of presence. Spacious studios are also available for projects. Photo: Renée Labek

Collaborative, experimental work in the Bachelor's degree programme Arts and Design Education. Photo: Simon Mader

Open House 2024: Performance 'Art and other things: Sustainability in Art' by Bachelor students Arts and Design Education. Photo: Simon Mader

Creative Coding at the Open House of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

Launched by the HGK Basel as a social facility, CIVIC is a physical and digital discourse and exhibition space created for and with students, researchers and staff, as well as for and with the general public. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

The HGK Basel invites students, staff and the public to the inaugural lectures of professors and visiting professors. In the picture: Prof Ines Kleesattel, professor and head of research at the Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE): Witchcraft as a counter-disciplinary art. Photo: Simon Mader

Spring Symposium ‘Fox Trot, Crab Step, Lame Duck, Roger Rabbit, Do the Pony: Animal Dancing as a Technology of Co-Evolving Bodies’, Feifei Zhou, Kate Foley, ChusMartínez, Krõõt Juurak, Alex Bailey Quinn Latimer, Fahim Amir, IAGN HGK Basel FHNW, 2024. Photo: Christian Knörr

Project presentation in the Masterstudio Fashion Design at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

At the Open House of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

The ‘Collective Practice’ module marks the start of the academic year for all Bachelor students on the Art and Design Education degree programme. Collaborative projects are developed here and implemented under the theme ‘Ready, steady go’. Photo: Simon Mader

Wood, metal, plastic, 3D printing, painting, sculpting, screen printing, bookbinding, sewing, Digital Fabrication Lab, plus photo, video and audio labs: the academy’s own workshops and studios on campus enable students to learn analogue techniques and acquire digital know-how. The Campus.Workshops are available to students, lecturers and staff almost all year round. Photo: Pati Grabowicz

Wood, metal, plastic, 3D printing, painting, sculpting, screen printing, bookbinding, sewing, Digital Fabrication Lab, plus photo, video and audio labs: the academy’s own workshops and studios on campus enable students to learn analogue techniques and acquire digital know-how. The Campus.Workshops are available to students, lecturers and staff almost all year round. Photo: Pati Grabowicz