Interior Architecture and Scenography BA
The transformation towards a fossil-free, carbon-neutral world and the cultivation of responsibility stand as major design challenges: they include making our spaces worth living again in their social, ecological as well as economic dimensions. In the degree programme Interior Architecture and Scenography, one of the core elements includes the establishment and testing of sustainability. The work of interior designers and scenographers includes advancing positive concepts and concrete visions towards societal change: they design both interiors and public urban spaces with an eye to social exchange, cohabitation, and coexistence. In the course of the programme, students acquire a broad foundation of theoretical knowledge and work on their skills in research, analysis, and critical thought, and learn to reflect on their experiences. They learn about designing public spaces not merely in studios, workshops, and course rooms – rather, they are given the opportunity to realize and implement their concepts on a 1:1. scale. The chance to do this is in collaborative projects.
Key data
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts FHNW
- ECTS points
- 180
- Start of semester
- September (week 38)
- Next start
- Mon. 19.09.2022 | Autumn Semester
- Final application date
- Feb 15, 2022
- Studying mode
- fulltime
- Duration
- 6 Semester
- Teaching language
- German (TELC B2)
- Place
- Basel
- Stay abroad
- possible
- Application fee
- CHF 100 (Application fee); CHF 200 (matriculation fee due to commitment)
- Semester fee
- CHF 700 (CH); CHF 1.000 (EU); CHF 5.000 (Not-EU/EFTA)
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Target Audience
Whether during or after your studies, you will be dealing with professionals from the fields of architecture, theatre, film, fair construction, digital media and the arts and with experts from a variety of other fields as well. Whatever the task, working as an interior designer or scenographer requires the ability to cooperate, which is why we place such emphasis on the team and communicative skills of our students and help to develop them in the course of their studies.
Projects, publications
The ICDP Institute’s website contains information on projects and publications.
Information on programme contents
Module description
Organizational matters
Cooperation partners
Basel – A City of Architecture, Art and Design
Basel ranks as one of the richest cultural cities in Europe, featuring just on forty museums on merely thirty-seven square kilometres. In addition, with Art Basel the city hosts every summer one of the most renowned international art fairs. The city also has very lively theatre and music scenes and is home to a number of world famous architecture firms.
Over the last few years the Institute of Interior Architecture and Scenography has launched a number of student projects in collaboration with leading cultural institutions in Basel, among others with Kaserne Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, the Canton Basel-Stadt State Archives, Kunstverein Binningen, Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel, Bildrausch Film Festival, Museum Kleines Klingental, Theater Festival Basel, Historisches Museum Basel, Swiss Architecture Museum SAM, Vitra Design Museum and the Kammerorchester Basel.
In recent years, the Institute has also launched a number of cultural as well as service-related projects beyond the city boundaries, for instance, with the Solothurn Literature Days, the women’s clinic of the Cantonal Hospital Baselland, Swisscom, and the Valais Wine Association.
