Design-Studentin bei Tag, Krampus bei Nacht
Wenn es dunkel wird, verwandelt sich Miriam Pardeller von einer Design-Studentin in einen furchteinflößenden Krampus.
Faculty of Design and Art
Designers and artists have in common the ability to create communication that involves all the senses and, through their creations, to provoke a critical analysis of the status quo.
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Art and design are not traditional forms of knowledge, however, they facilitate deep observation and knowledge in a way that few other disciplines do.
Our goal is to encourage the individual talent of our students; to guide them in the process of development of their professional competence and provide them with the practical and intellectual tools that enable them to perform their role as designers in and of society.
Our approach to study is interdisciplinary and team-based: teaching and learning happen through both studying and projects. A team of lecturers who are specialists in the practice and theory of art and design will regularly suggest to small groups of students new topics to work on.
In the group of non-state Italian universities, the faculty's bachelor programmes and the master programme were ranked first in the Italian Censis Ranking 2024.
News
Blueprint for social design. Bridging academia and civil society
The Change Agents project has culminated in a comprehensive methodological guide that could help catalyse social design practices and positive change.
Die Freie Universität Bozen im GRASSI Museum
Im GRASSI Museum in Leipzig eröffnet am 20.11.2024 die Sonderausstellung „ZUKÜNFTE. Material und Design von Morgen“, an der die unibz bis August 2025 mit gleich drei Projekten vertreten ist.
Research
Design and Art are fields of exploration... they are expanding and adaptive with the quintessence to experiment, prototype and implement diverse ways of living, sensing and understanding our world, by creating new artefacts and processes. Therefore, Design and Art are fields where many approaches meet to tackle issues that cross our knowledge and competences whilst developing sound methods of investigations, characterised by integrative interdisciplinarity.
Our main research areas overlap and complement each other, focusing on:
- make - exploring innovative approaches to the ideation of artefacts and spaces;
- trans-form - exploring design, art and social practices addressing political and eco-social issues;
- enable - design and art competences, material culture, and human development.
Platform Cultural Heritage Cultural Production
The Platform was set up as a joint initiative of the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano and unibz and it has been active since September 2018. It promotes an interdisciplinary discussion on the practices of cultural heritage as cultural production to develop research, conservation, mediation and further development of the cultural heritage in the European region/Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino fostering social participation. The Platform is coordinated by Prof. Nitzan Cohen as scientific supervisor and Waltraud Kofler Engl as director, with the collaboration of Ursula Schnitzer and Sophie Elaine Wolf as researcher.
People
Dean: Prof. Nitzan Cohen (photo)
Vice Dean for Studies: Prof. Roberto Gigliotti
Vice Dean for Research: Prof. Eva Leitolf
Head of the Faculty Secretariat: Andrea Caser
Student Representatives in the Faculty Council: Argentina Carrino, Matteo Antonazzo
Partnerships
The collaborative approach typical of our faculty is expressed by the many projects we collaborate on with external partners. We maintain a constructive and interdisciplinary exchange with partner faculties all over the world and with local institutions such as the European Academy (EURAC) and MUSEION, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen. Our faculty is very active in the Euregio university network and collaborates with small and medium businesses from South Tyrol, with local councils and charities.
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Showcase and Projects Archive
The Faculty's Showcase and Projects Archive is an online platform offering a general overview of the works created by our students since 2018 in the two Majors in Design, the Major in Art and the Master in Eco-Social Design.