Members of the CML are teaching and mentoring in the BA Process Design, which is located at our partner lab HyperWerk. Together with HyperWerk, we offer the MA program Transversal Design. We are also hosting the school’s PhD program MAKE/SENSE. We offer courses in the undergraduate elective course program CoCreate as well as in the continuing education program Art & Design. Our regular Colloquiums and Lab Days are open for students, educators and researchers from the school and beyond (please be in touch if you’re interested).
BA Process Design
“How can we live together?” What values and norms are invoked and how are these related to one’s own viewpoint and the realities of life? Reflecting on one’s own prejudices with regard to design practices and coming to terms with one’s own privileges are prerequisite to non-discriminatory design processes. The students analyse social transformations, traditional crafts, and new technologies, making prototypical use of the opportunities that emerge. They are encouraged to generate exemplary responses, speculative models, radical proposals and convincing alternatives in a rapidly changing world.
Matthias Böttger is head of the BA programme.
MA Transversal Design
Transversal Design is a research-oriented, transdisciplinary master’s programme. On this programme students develop practices that include – alternative media, speculative models, practices of care, tools for solidarity and radical proposals for worlds in transition. Our design focus is not primarily about objects or products but on processes, modes of relating, questions of environmental-social justice, and the critical infrastructures on which we collectively depend. You will work on self-led projects mentored and supported in the Critical Media Lab and HyperWerk.
Kit Braybrooke is head of the MA programme.
MAKE/SENSE PhD
The MAKE/SENSE PhD supports practice-based research at the intersection of design, media, art & technology. Participants develop writing and media practices that unsettle dominant epistemologies and open new forms of collectivity. The programme foregrounds infrastructural critique and situated inquiry, rooted in trans*feminist and anti-colonial approaches. It combines individualized mentoring in Basel and Linz with a three-year curriculum. Artistic research is approached as a politically committed practice that reimagines what research can be, whom it serves, and how it shapes new publics.
Lucie Kolb is head of the PhD programme.
