Hochschule Pforzheim

Hochschule Pforzheim

Baden-Württemberg

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Die Fakultät für Gestaltung der Hochschule Pforzheim öffnet: Türen und Augen. Die Fakultät für Gestaltung blickt auf eine über 140-jährige Geschichte zurück. Sie steht für Erfahrung und beständige Qualität. Insbesondere durch ihren künstlerischen Fokus bildet die Fakultät Persönlichkeiten aus, die ihren eigenen Ausdruck entwickeln und über eine außergewöhnliche Wahrnehmung verfügen. Wir bieten bundesweit das breiteste Ausbildungsangebot im Bereich Design und Studiengänge, die deutschland- bzw. weltweit einzigartig sind. Dadurch sind unsere Absolventen im globalen Markt besonders begehrt. hat: Auszeichnungen und Renommee Die Arbeiten unserer Studierenden werden regelmäßig mit wichtigen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter der Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award, ITS oder der FASH. lehrt: interdisziplinär und international Wir fördern die Zusammenarbeit – innerhalb unserer Design-Studiengänge wie auch innerhalt der Fakultäten. Dadurch stärken wir visionäres Denken und strategisches Handeln unserer Studierenden. Wir kooperieren mit renommierten Hochschulen in der ganzen Welt, wie dem Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax (Kanada), Design School Kolding, (Dänemark) oder der Nagoya University of Art and Sciences (Japan). Unsere Studierenden lernen sie im Rahmen von Auslandssemestern und Projekten kennen und erhalten wichtige Einblicke in unterschiedliche Design-Kulturen. bietet: Praxisnähe und Marktorientierung Dank eines exzellenten Netzwerks mit der Wirtschaft entwickeln Studierende regelmäßig Ideen für den Markt und lernen dessen Anforderungen kennen. Als gefragte Kooperationspartner*innen arbeiten sie frei denkend in einem zukunftsweisenden und inspirierenden Umfeld. Wir hinterfragen unsere Lehrinhalte kontinuierlich, reagieren auf Entwicklungen der Branche und die Anforderungen im Berufsleben. So ist es unseren Absolvent*innen möglich, selbstständig, erfolgreich und dauerhaft in ihrem Beruf zu arbeiten. ist: künstlerisch und staatlich Größten Wert legen wir auf künstlerische Grundlagen in Malerei, Zeichnung, Skulptur, Fotografie und audiovisuellen Medien. Mit diesem Schwerpunkt schaffen wir eine Atmosphäre, die Persönlichkeiten reifen lässt und Charakterköpfe fördert. Als staatliche Hochschule erheben wir keine Studiengebühren. Wir zählen auf Leistung, Leidenschaft, Wissensdurst, Neugier und Individualität.

School of Design.

The School of Design in Pforzheim – DesignPF – is a vibrant institution with both, a strong vision for speculative futures and future making and deep historical roots in craft and industrialisation. Founded in 1877 as Ducal School of Craft, it started as an ‘educational laboratory’ of crafts, industrialized production and trade. Being devoted to creativity, experimentation and excellence, throughout the decades the School of Design established new educational components with a solid base on the principles of “Bauhaus” and “Ulmer Schule”. Today DesignPF offers 6 Bachelor and 3 Master programs in Design: from Fashion, Jewellery and Accessory to Transportation Design and Media. The highly diverse range of award-winning design programs are recognized for highly skilled graduates with unique profiles, sensibilities and ingenuity in their professional practice. DesignPF education provides a transferable and holistically formed expertise. A unique range of art-related core classes are offered to all students challenging their elastic and creative minds and fostering a design engagement of intellectual, experimental and tacit rigor. Inter- and trans-disciplinary ventures, collaborative projects, crossover activities foster critical, research-focused, innovation-led processes, strategies and global design approaches. By applying conceptual design thinking methods as well as experimental knowledge, students are trained to think holistically, to act critically and to collaborate interdependently. This will be delivered to management through remarkable social skills, versatility, and professionalized communication tools as well as through the capacity to connect at speed. Inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations with both international institutes and design-studios as well as with recognized industry partners will provide a critical, blending insight. This will evoke disruptive design investigations embracing new technologies as well as environmental and social challenges. Fashion. We envisage Fashion as Critical Craft Tailored Emotions Desired Momentum Fabric of Statements Draped Geographies Mediation of Cultures Decisive Brand of Zeitgeist Contemporary Market-Drive Shaped Negotiation to Future Fulcrum between Industry and Self Modern Device to Global Responsible Citizenship Fashioning the Next Generation By fostering experimental and emotional knowledge, students are critically challenged to extend their creativity and to question their preconceptions of fashion. Extended research and investigational exploration of original ideas, will be contextualised and integrated into design strategies on different key levels: visually, materially, spatially, and textually. Lateral and forward directional thinking, combined with methodological shifts, will ensure both an exceedingly individual and creative design language as well as an outstanding fashion evident. These objectives are imperative as we aim at differentiating fashion profiles that enable us to adaptively encompass and enhance industry’s needs. Our program content is diverse. At its core we offer a broad in-depth experience of fashion disciplines including menswear, womenswear, textiles and knitwear that combined, provide a transferable and holistically formed expertise. The interplay of traditional and contemporary techniques with emerging technologies is as vital to the education as new developments, practices and technological shifts is in everyday life. Arguably the vectors of fashion, cultural movements, market shifts as well as clothing and garment production are fundamental to be reviewed and realigned during the creative stages. Inter- and trans-disciplinary ventures, collaborative projects, crossover activities allow totally integrated units of study to extend design and fashion challenges. Connecting to fine art, popular culture and critical studies creatively, fashion is pushed to its ‘perceived’ boundaries thus ensuring an innovative statement with distinctive quality and value to industry and markets. This will be delivered to management through remarkable social skills, versatility, and professionalized communication tools as well as through the capacity to connect at speed. Creative Making through Critical Thinking. Creative Thinking through Critical Making.