Master Design

As we face future challenges, designers make abstract things tangible, negotiating material and immaterial values. Diverse cultural value systems and their relationship to products, materials and spaces are the focus of our Design investigations in the Anthropocene.Our goal is to facilitate a resilient future by questioning our desires and asking ourselves what product our world needs. This includes challenging the way we dress, communicate, live together, shop, trade and thrive. Through collaborative and practice-based design approaches, we harness the power of change to drive innovation in design.

Our intensive degree programme is available full-time and part-time and empowers ambitious designers to develop a strong design position oriented towards diverse and leading-edge professional fields in research and industry.

Be curious!

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About the Programme

Our Offer

Be curious!

Our Challenges

We ask questions, engage stakeholders, experiment, prototype solutions.
How might we...

develop visions for a bright and liveable future?
understand materials as matters of activity?
design for cultural differences and inclusion?
make the intersection of theory and practice productive?
shape a culture of participation?
prototype policies for resilient communities?
co-design with machine intelligence?
educate change agents for our societies?

What you can expect

Innovative design degree program in a multidisciplinary environment.
Exploratory and research-driven - dedicated to excellence in design.
Solving wicked problems: exploring difficult challenges to create new business opportunities.
Low student-to-teacher ratio of 1:7.
Outstanding workshops - translating concepts into prototypes.

Specifics for the Master Design

Prototyping impact: well-equipped facilities foster design exploration and support a comprehensive understanding of circular and adaptive products, materials, and spatialities.
Expanding the scope of design: excellence in sustainable entrepreneurship with dynamic interdisciplinary and collaborative networking projects.
Regenerative Design approach: bio-fab-labs focus on researching interventions within the natural limits of our planet.
Tailored individual coaching with leading professionals to foster self-reflection and personal growth.
Interdisciplinary setting: a unique environment including three other master programs encourages students to develop strategic personal profiles by enhancing their skills with competencies from related fields.

Expertise

Our lecturers support students in the following areas:

Communication Design
Illustration
Information Design and Visualisation
Product and Industrial Design
Spatial Design
Social Design
Textiles and Materials

Language of Studies

MA programs in Design, Digital Ideation, Service Design and Eco-Social Design are taught in English.

Fields of activity

Thanks to their competencies in interdisciplinary project collaboration, experimentation methods, and modeling value propositions, graduates are well-equipped to lead design processes at the intersection of high-tech and low-tech.

The skillsets acquired offer new professional perspectives for graduates to create sustainable value for people and society, be it in cooperation with industry, research, culture, and public sectors, or by founding a design agency or company.

Registration

The application deadline is March. Late admission is open for exceptional candidates until mid-June.

Contact

Jan-Christoph Zoels – Head, MA Design programs, jan-christoph.zoels@hslu.ch
Isabel Rosa Müggler Zumstein – Lead, MA Design, 24HS, isabelrosa.mueggler@hslu.ch
Daniela Zimmermann – Lead, MA Design, 25FS, daniela.zimmermann@hslu.ch