Fashion Design BA
‘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 resolve. Fashion confronts people with its own contradictions. How can we design, produce, buy, teach and learn sustainably? How can we coordinate aesthetic and circular methods and processes when we make fashion? And how can we confront demands for diversity and accountability within the context of postcolonial discourses while underscoring our critical perspective? In addition to an emphasis on performance and performativity, the study programme places a strong focus on the body and its perception, on movement and body-based design methods, as well as on bodily knowledge. We examine other bodies, including other bodies of fashion in the midst of debates that are rebalancing the confrontation between humans and machines. What are artificial and technical changes of the human body, and how does the body of fashion move within the metaverse?
Key data
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts FHNW
- ECTS points
- 180
- Start of semester
- September (week 38)
- Next start
- Mon. 16.09.2024 | Fall Semester (Details see dates)
- Final application date
- Thu, 15.2.2024
- Studying mode
- fulltime
- Duration
- 7 Semester
- Teaching language
- German (B2 or equivalent)
- Place
- Basel
- Stay abroad
- possible (internship)
- Application fee
- CHF 200.- (incl. aptitude assessment and enrolment)
- Semester fee
- CHF 700 (CH); CHF 1.000 (EU); CHF 1.250 (Not-EU/EFTA) Fees detail
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