The Masterstudio Experimental Design critically examines contemporary ways of living and aims at designing possible futures. A research-based engagement with current social and environmental challenges such as climate change, social inequality, migration, demographic change, and technological transformations of our live worlds is fundamental to the students' work. We translate a norm-critical, post-disciplinary and post-anthropocentric stance into experimental design practice.Experimental Design means developing an autonomous, research-driven design practice, which has a direct impact on different areas of social life. A post-disciplinary approach aids in identifying and exploring new fields of design. The program’s tutors, researchers from HyperWerk and the Critical Media Lab, and external experts accompany and inform the students’ practice-led project work. As a member of the Masterstudio Experimental Design, you will design collective experiments and develop exemplary scenarios, speculative models, and radical proposals for societies and worlds in transition.
Key data
Study mode
Master of Arts FHNW
ECTS points
90
Start of semester
September (week 38)
Next start
Mon. 18.09.2023 | Autumn Semester
Final application date
Sat, 15.4.2023
Studying mode
fulltime
Duration
3 Semester
Teaching language
English (B2)
Place
Basel
Stay abroad
possible
Application fee
CHF 200.- (incl. aptitude assessment and enrolment)
Thank you for your interest in studying at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. The application deadline for a Master's degree programme beginning in the fall semester 2023/24 has expired on March 15, 2023.
Academical qualifications Admission to the aptitude assessment commonly requires the following:
A Bachelor’s degree in Design or a related field of study.
A similar, equivalent degree in Design (at BA level pursuant to the “Dublin Descriptors").
If a candidate shows design potential, lateral entry from a different discipline is possible; in this case, please contact the head of the degree programme.
Note: International students are welcome to apply for a Master’s degree programme. The language of tuition is English (B2 level or equivalent).
Application deadline extended: To apply for a place at the HGK Basel, the required documents must be submitted by 15.04.2023.
Semester project Emily WrenLamentum, project by Jana Hoffmann, Talayeh Dehghani and Olivia LinzMaster thesis by Alexandra Auer, Radical Certainty
Information on the study program
The MA Studio Experimental Design targets candidates with a background in design (from fine arts and across all design disciplines) and graduates of university programs interested in translating their knowledge and skills into practices of design. You are interested in exploring contemporary challenges and want to explore how designers can impact the world of tomorrow. You are curious to engage with norm-critical experimentation, speculative design and methods of collective self-organization.
We emphasize independent study and peer learning. Central to the program is developing and implementing study projects in exchange with tutors and researchers. Students work in interdisciplinary teams, apply their individual skills towards a common goal, and develop collective projects that form the basis of their individual MA theses.
Graduates of the MA Studio Experimental Design explore new fields of activity through a self-driven critical design practice. They moderate and mediate, produce and publish, think ahead and transform. Thanks to its integration into the IXDM's research activities, this MA Studio Experimental also prepares you for a career and teaching and research.
Students have access to the research groups, workspaces and technologies of the IXDM labs HyperWerk and Critical Media Lab. HGK also provides all institutes with workshops for metal, wood, plastics, and ceramics and facilities for photo and video production, rapid prototyping, bookbinding, screen printing, painting, sewing, cooking, and sculpture. Every student in Experimental Design has unlimited access to their own desk and in the shared studio space.
Contact
Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM)
Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW Masterstudio Design (MA) IXDM Freilager-Platz 1 Postfach CH-4002 Basel
room D 4.05
Masterstudio Design (MA) IXDM
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern SwitzerlandBasel Academy of Art and Design,
Masterstudio Design (MA) IXDM
Tower: D 4.05Freilager-Platz 1CH - 4142 Münchenstein near Basel
