Research projects of the Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE)

The Institute Art and Design Education (IADE) conducts research in the fields of art and design education, critical mediation, aesthetic research and artistic knowledge practices.

We pursue transdisciplinary research at the interfaces of aesthetics, art, education and society as well as applied research on the potential of art and design education in museum, school and other socio-cultural contexts. Research at the IADE combines thinking and acting; practice-orientated questions and theory-informed procedures; artistic and scientific research - always with a view to the social relevance of art and design and their current and future requirements for sensitive collaboration, sustainable education, transversal knowledge and mediation practices.

Specific focal points of the researching professors at the IADE

Prof. Dr. Dorothée King

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Multisensory aesthetic experience in museum contexts and contemporary art
Global histories and futures of art and design education
Digital Storytelling and Audience Development

Prof. Dr Ines Kleesattel

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Artistic research, situated aesthetics and transdisciplinarity
(Queer) feminist and post-colonial processes of meaning-making
Collaborative authorship and transversal mediation
Performativity of theoretical practices and ‘doing theory’

Prof. Dr Nicolaj van der Meulen

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Image theory, image history and image science, structures and forms of image genesis image genesis (KI)
Culinary aesthetics, philosophies of food, artistic research in the field of food
Theories of artistic research
Processes of aesthetic judgement

As part of their research activities, IADE professors supervise doctoral students and PhD candidates.

Information for interested parties

Doctoral and PhD projects at the HGK are realised exclusively in cooperation with Swiss universities or foreign art colleges, academies and universities (due to applicable Swiss doctoral law). If you are interested in a doctorate and have a project proposal, please contact us. Please note that cooperation with a university entitled to award doctorates is a prerequisite for a doctorate at Swiss art colleges.

Current research projects

Past research projects

Research Responsible IADE

Prof. Dr. Ines Kleesattel