At Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW you have seven BA and four MA programmes to choose from. We pave the way to independent authorship in art and design and provide the foundations for a successful professional career.
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
Fine Arts
In the studio, in project work and in the context of exhibitions students gradually develop their own artistic language and handwriting. The study course ...
Create impact on life and experience in an ever-changing society by becoming an industrial designer. Aesthetics, utility, materiality, emotional impact, ...
Transforming into a CO2-neutral world without fossil fuels and cultivating a sense of responsibility are significant tasks for design: one of them is to ...
‘Doing Fashion’ is a culture and fashion design is a cultural practice. Fashion is a global and social system that produces paradoxes that we cannot always ...
As designers, we shape the world: from formulating a thought to managing our relationships to building our organisational structures – everything in our world ...
The Arts and Design Education bachelor’s programme combines artistic and creative practices with a discursive and context-driven examination of art, design and ...
As digitalisation advances and visual communication becomes simplified, dealing critically with images has again gained in importance. In the Visual ...
Arts and Design Education, Teaching Diploma for Secondary Schools
The Arts and Design Education master’s programme with a Maturität-level teaching degree is offered in cooperation with the FHNW School of Education. In this ...
The master’s programme offers three areas in which the students can improve their skills over the course of four semesters: 1. Improving the experimental and ...
The MA programme focuses on an in-depth examination of the students’ artistic practice. By means of reflection they advance their practice and relate it to the ...
The Masterstudio Experimental Design critically examines contemporary ways of living and aims at designing possible futures. A research-based engagement with ...
The way we dress is a powerful form of non-verbal communication that can convey a wide range of messages about our identity, including our cultural background ...
Masterstudio Industrial Design provides a high-level, individualised, professional and research-oriented qualification on the basis of “advanced design”. The ...
In the Studio Scenography programme, students advance their skills of translating complex contents into walk-in spatial images and to inject narrative quality ...
Transversal Design is a research-oriented, transdisciplinary master's programme. On this programme students develop practices that include–– alternative media, ...
CoCreate is the university-wide teaching programme encompassing all bachelor’s study programmes. In the roughly 140 courses of the CoCreate programme each ...
The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW is linked with other universities and academies, in Switzerland and abroad. Ties with renowned schools and universities in Europe, the United States, and Asia provide an opportunity to study your subject from a different viewpoint and against a new cultural background. At the same time, the Academy welcomes candidates from other Swiss universities and from abroad to study here in Basel. You will find more information here.
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Public transport The Campus is easy to reach by public transport. The stop Freilager on BLT line 11 is immediately in front of the Campus (from Bahnhof SBB in direction Aesch)
By car Leave the motorway A2 at the junction Basel-St. Jakob and follow the sign Dreispitz. Approaching from Münchensteinerstrasse enter the Dreispitz complex through Gate 13 and park your car in one of the public car parks (Ruchfeld or Leimgrube). When setting your satnav, please note that the Freilager complex is part of the municipality of Münchenstein, Canton Basel-Landschaft.
Note: Access by car for people with disabilities Choose the access via Florenz-Strasse in the direction of the tower block (Building D). To lower the bollard at the gates of the Campus, please ring the bell. You will be connected to our reception in Building D.
