Application deadline: March 1st, 2008.
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Konstfack’s Master of Arts Program in Art, Craft and Design 2008/2009
Konstfack, the largest university college of art, craft and design in Sweden, was established in 1844. Today its modern campus hosts progressive B.A. and M.A. programs founded on diverse studio practices and intense critical dialogue. Konstfack’s new Master of Arts Program offers a relevant, creatively demanding, and humanistic curriculum.
Konstfack’s new two-year graduate program, leading to the Master of Arts degree in Fine Art, Design or Craft, fuses design, art, craft, history, theory and criticism into an education of creative inquiry sustained by a unique methodology of practice-based research. Students are encouraged to work across disciplines at Konstfack in an interdisciplinary curriculum they may co-design. With individual tutoring from prominent professors, faculty, visiting practitioners and theoreticians, combined with access to unparalleled workshop facilities, we prepare our students for future professional careers and post-graduate studies.
This new international program consists of the following nine M.A. Groups, which are hosted by individual departments under the teaching and supervision of professors and faculty:
-Storytelling
-Formgiving Intelligence
-InSpace
-Experience Design
-Art in the Public Realm
-WIRE (write + interpret + research + exhibit)
-Ceramics and Glass
-Jewellery + Corpus
-Textiles in the Expanded Field
For details about each program visit: http://www.konstfack.se
Each M.A. Group is dedicated to developing interdisciplinary skills and ideas across creative disciplines, while at the same time pursuing depth of training in each student’s chosen field. As a result, students take away from Konstfack an education that is relevant not only to their discipline but to the wider world. An obligatory Master of Arts core curriculum is provided for all M.A. students and is designed to introduce relevant theories and methodologies grounded in practice-based research. Students also explore, though practical studio experiences, how to apply practice-based research to individual creative processes. Beyond the core curriculum, a range of elective courses provide opportunities to further shape specializations or to develop allied studio skills, and the ability to think and work beyond the boundaries of a given discipline.
General Requirements
Konstfack’s Master of Arts Program is designed for students with a Bachelor of Arts degree, or a professional degree with a minimum of 180 academic credits (ECTS), or the equivalent degree from an institution of higher education outside of Sweden. Exceptions to these degree requirements may be made for applicants who have acquired equivalency by other means. Successful applicants will have a clear vision of their educational goals, be informed about current research and development in their discipline, be able to work independently, and possess a good command of spoken and written English.
Applications
Final date for applications: March 1st, 2008.
Final date for portfolios: March 10th, 2008.
Each M.A. Group has specific application requirements.
For details and application forms see http://www.konstfack.se
For more information contact:
Student Office:
Telephone: + 46-(0)8-450 41 77
Konstfack
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
Stockholm, Sweden
