You will acquire various media and techniques in art and design and use them in your teaching. The aim is to orient oneself in the academic field of Arts and Design Education and to be able to use the knowledge of art, design, educational and cultural studies for one’s own activities and to develop one’s skills in art and design. This is always combined with an approach to one’s own studio projects that is intensive, enjoyable, experimentally artistic and creative. You deal with aesthetic and artistic research, with approaches to transformative education; you test your skills in mediation situations and experiment with materials, working methods and hybrid, multimedia processes. And you learn how to incorporate working methods in art and design in teaching contexts in order to create lasting educational impulses, open spaces for reflection, and accompany transformative educational processes.
Study structure
The compulsory portion of the study programme is split into the following module groups: Collective Practice; Artistic and Creative Practice; Education, Art and Teaching; Education, Art, Public Space; Artistic Research Methods; Education, Design Media Practice; Education, Transdisciplinarity, Relationships; Education, Art, Media Science; Education, Research, Transfer; Bachelor’s Thesis.
The elective portion offers a programme that alternates between the Arts and Design Education and Cocreate module groups. Each spring semester, the specialisation module groups give students a chance to focus on their own projects.
In the Collective Practice format, students from all three bachelor’s years work on joint solutions to an overarching issue and in doing so build up team spirit and social and teaching skills in addition to artistic and creative skills. In the compulsory modules for the individual programme years, you develop your own independent artistic position in various media and contexts. You learn to contextualise your own work, reflect on it and integrate it into learning situations, and thus tap into lasting educational inspiration, and spaces for reflection and contextualisation.
The comprehensive range of choices gives you the opportunity to delve into your own specialisation in art, design and an experimental and artistic education for a specific target group.
The elective area is complemented by the HGK Basel’s CoCreate programme, which is open to students from all semesters, as well as the partner programme of the FHNW’s trinational IBM programme.