The Folkwang Graduate Programme
"Heterotopia Design"
Full information on the course is available at:
http://www.folkwang-heterotopia.de
Benchmark data of the study programme
Provider
- Folkwang Faculty for Design together with the Communication Design and Industrial Design study courses
- "Heterotopia Institute for Interdisciplinary Design" in the Folkwang Faculty for Design
Study course
- 6-semester Graduate Programme, 180 ECTS
- curated programme, studios, specialist expertise
- innovative type of training: individual and flexible study plan
- Degree: Folkwang Brief für Gestaltung, a total of 360 ECTS (equivalent to Master of Arts)
- entitlement to study for a doctorate
Campus
- Essen Zollverein | SANAA Building
Number of student places
- starting with 30 students
- admittance for each winter semester
Target group
- artists or academics with their own development projects
Entrance requirements
- Bachelor degree or diploma
- evidence of outstanding artistic or academic aptitude
- evidence of sufficient language competence for the course of study selected
- exposé on applicant’s own development project for the Graduate Programme
Special features
- project-oriented study course in interdisciplinary exchange with the further Folkwang disciplines of Music, Theatre, Dance, Design, Academic Studies
- students at centre stage of the programme / independent design of study plan
- unique in Germany on account of the integration of a 2-semester curated programme at the Folkwang Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
- 7 studios as special teaching and learning forms of the Graduate Programme, in which teaching staff and students explore a common theme: Analogue and digital publishing, staged area, mobility, visual narration, sustainable design, discovery and interaction, students' studio
Teaching staff
- from the Faculty for Design
- from the Heterotopia Institute: curator and other discipline-external teaching staff
Start
- 2012/2013 winter semester
Admission procedure
- For the 2016/2017 winter semester: The application documents must be submitted on 13th or 14th june 2016 by email to sonja.zenker(at)folkwang-uni.de
- Attention! Important date! The application procedure will take place in two stages. Applicants admitted to the second round will be invited to an entrance interview on 4th and 5th July 2016.