This is where you can find the completed research projects of the HGK Basel.

Collage application
Final report on the Lehrfonds-funded project
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- Institute of Arts and Design Education

Teaching settings as an immersive learning experience
Virtual reality in practical vocational training
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- Institute of Arts and Design Education

Teaching Artistic Strategies
Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics, and Ambiguity
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- Institute of Arts and Design Education

Initialization Project: New Landscapes of Knowledge and Research
Design Anthropology (initiating interinstitutional doctoral structures HGK FHNW – G3S UniBas), designXsciences (initiating research across design, engineering sciences, life sciences, social sciences), metaLAB (at) Basel (founded in 2024 as part of the international metaLAB community)
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- Institute of Contempory Design Practices

Interactive learning scenarios (Teaching Fund FHNW)
Shortly you will get more information here.
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- Institute of Contempory Design Practices

Circular Design Practices and Processes (IP)
The principle of the circular economy demands that all processes from the extraction of materials to production, distribution, sale, use, return and recycling be designed in a circular manner. This also applies to design.
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- Institute of Contempory Design Practices

Adaptation of OpenSoundLab for autonomous learning
OpenSoundLab (OSL) makes modular sound patching three dimensional in a mixed reality experience for Meta Quest. Patch simple or complex sounds at home, in your studio or in the field. Learn the foundations of creative sound work through video tutorials that are placed right within your patch.
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- Institute of Digital Communication Environments

Seeing & Knowing (Teaching Fund FHNW)
Use and benefits of eye-tracking methods in information design teaching.
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- Institute of Digital Communication Environments

Social work
Shortly you will get more information here.
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- Institute of Digital Communication Environments

COCODING Classroom (Teaching Fund FHNW)
Teaching Diverse Frameworks in Hybrid Learning
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- Institute of Digital Communication Environments

Making Arguments with Data
Together with Selena Savic and Yann Patrick Martins, Fatma Kargin works on the visual literacy teaching project “Making Arguments with Data”. The project is funded by Lehrfonds / Teaching Fund FHNW.
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- Institute of Arts and Design Education

CoCreativeCoding (Lehrfonds FHNW)
Shortly you will get more information here.
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- Institute of Arts and Design Education

Judgment competence visual aesthetics
You will get more information here shortly.
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- Institute of Arts and Design Education

FieldPlatform / Plataforma Campo (Leading House for the Latin American Region)
To the website of the research project
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- Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures

Extended Ecologies (Pro Helvetia)
To the website of the research project
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- Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures

Digital Collaboration Hubs (Innosuisse)
Design of collaborative mixed reality settings for site-distributed teamwork
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- Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures
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