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Department of Design and Interior Architecture Over recent decades, design has secured a significant role in all areas of private and public life. Given that design gives objects an image, clarifies interrelationships and thereby provides people with orientation, this significance is set to grow. Design shapes our living environment, looks to the future and creates new paradigms.
To an unusually high degree, design is interdisciplinary; it thrives on the exchange of ideas and initiatives between art, science and practical application, and on the interplay between these areas, users and consumers.
Design makes use of the latest communication media and design techniques, thereby meeting the needs of society and individuals within ever shorter timeframes. At the University of Wismar, it is possible to study design under two specialisations: Product design and jewellery design. In both cases, the creative abilities of students are stimulated and expanded. Through the communication of specialist knowledge by means of exercises, practical sessions and project work in creative design, these are related to the complex tasks you will encounter in your subsequent field of activity. The interdisciplinary links between the specialisations and other degree programmes is intentional, and encourages students to develop a flexible approach. The course comprises 4 basic curriculum semesters and 4 main curriculum semesters
Final qualification: Graduate designer (FH)
Programme duration: 8 semesters
Start: Winter semester: 1st September
General Admission Requirements:
· Academic standard required to enter a higher education institution
or
· Evidence of completion of a course of education recognised as equivalent by the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
or
· Passing of an access examination following completion of vocational training and at least three years’ practical experience (for applicants not educated to university entrance standard)
and/or
· Evidence of participation in an obligatory practical period relevant to the degree programme of at least 13 weeks’ duration, of which at least 8 weeks must be completed before embarking on the programme (the rest to be completed before the preliminary examination)
or
· Vocational training or activity relevant to the intended course of study
or
· Practical education relevant to the course of study at a College of Further Education
Additional Admission Requirements:
Successful participation in the "Examination to determine an appropriate creative aptitude".
This process involves the submission of a portfolio containing creative design work (to the specialist department by 31st April) along with an aptitude test.
Basic curriculum:
For both specialisations, the basic curriculum covers the following:
Basics of design
Basics of depiction
Basics of drafting
Technical principles
Basics of CAD
Study of nature
Aesthetics/design theory
History of art and culture
In addition to the compulsory courses, students can pursue their own preferences by choosing elective course units from an extensive selection. This is possible even within the basic curriculum, but mostly within the main curriculum.
Main curriculum:
Main curriculum courses, product design specialisation:
Product design drafting
Presentation (depiction/model construction)
Experimental design
Computer-aided design
Marketing/management
Technically-oriented products
Aesthetically-oriented products
Ecologically-oriented products
Design in public areas
Product graphic design
History of art and culture
Corporate identity
Foreign languages/technical terminology
Free graphic design/drawing
Main curriculum courses, jewellery design specialisation:
Jewellery design drafting/project work
Experimental design
Study of precious stones
Marketing/management
Gold work
Appliances/e-mail
Aesthetically-oriented jewellery
History of art and culture
Corporate identity
Foreign languages/technical terminology
Free graphic design/drawing
Specialisation:
The degree programme in Design offers the following specialisations:
Product design
and
Jewellery design
Practical semester:
6th semester
Diploma semester:
8th semester
Areas of application:
As intermediaries between producers and users, product designers work on the conception and development of products and product systems in the areas of production, the workplace, the household, lifestyle, leisure and the public sphere. They operate either independently in design teams, or as members of development teams in the business sector. Jewellery designers work within industrial and manufacturing enterprises. They may be active in art studios, the tourism sector, educational institutions or their own workshops and galleries. Link to Department of Design and Interior Architecture
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