At Basel Academy of Art and Design 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 the name of a holistic design practice that frames and defines the degree programme Fashion Design. “Doing Fashion” implies becoming ...
HyperWerk is an opportunity space for new and unexpected design solutions. Based at the Institute for Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), HyperWerk ...
The BA programme focuses on providing a broad field of competences serving as a foundation for teaching in art and design. In your BA in Arts and Design ...
Digital media and the resulting ease with which images can be communicated has made the need for a critical reflection on pictorial communication ever more ...
Arts and Design Education, Teaching Diploma for Secondary Schools
The MA in Arts and Design Education / Teaching Diploma Secondary II is offered in collaboration with the FHNW School of Education. At the Institute of Arts and ...
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 advanced degree programme founds on the holistic concept of “Doing Fashion”. Here fashion is understood as a cultural design practice that critically ...
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 ...
CoCreate is the university-wide teaching programme encompassing all bachelor’s study programmes. In the roughly 140 courses of the CoCreate programme each ...
The FHNW Academy of Art and Design 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 of the Arts, please ring the bell. You will be connected to our reception in Building D.
