Take your degree in design at Kolding School of Design
Sustainability, community, and a good life
We explore how we live and where we can create improvements. We aim to solve problems and discover new opportunities.
The world is calling for change - towards sustainability, community, and a good life for all. This is not just about filling our lives with new things but also about improving what already exists. Making it more beautiful, functional, playful, and appealing. It’s about listening to people’s needs and involving them in the development of new solutions.
“The school provides excellent studio facilities where you can work with materials 1:1 - day and night, if you wish. Around 400 active students, including PhD candidates, are part of the school’s daily life, and approximately 90 new students are admitted each year.”
Bachelor's degree programme
The bachelor programme is a three-year undergraduate degree programme for creatives who want to work with their head as well as their hands. You will receive theoretial and practical training in design methods, concept development and materials, and you will test your knowledge on real-life cases and by doing your own experiments.
Master's degree programme
We build on the Danish, democratic design tradition. In collaboration with the outside world, it is our ambition to create sustainable and inclusive solutions with play and creativity as leverage.
With that objective in mind, you will gain a deep and extended understanding of design methods, techniques and theory and thus supplement the knowledge as well as the competences and skills you bring with you from your bachelor's degree.
The education is structured as a cross between the design skills you have acquired on your relevant bachelor's degree (subject area), which is further developed in a thematic context (focus area) that you develop within.
PhD Programme
The programme qualifies you to carry out research, development and teaching assignments at international level in both the private and the public sector.
The PhD programme comprises:
- independent research work, supervised by a main supervisor and a project supervisor
- courses corresponding to 30 ECTS (a half FTE)
- participation in active research environments, e.g. visits to other institutions (typically abroad), and conferences
- teaching and dissemination
You complete your PhD by handing in either a monograph, a dissertation based on your own articles, or a dissertation based on your own artistic development work, which you then defend.
Where can a degree from Kolding School of Design take me?
Studio facilities at Kolding School of Design
Design School Kolding provides a number of workshop facilities that you are able to use after receiving instructions. The workshops allow you to work with materials and manufacturing of prototypes and provide a space for you to constantly develop your talent in relation to your speciality.
