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Linnaeus University

Department of Design

Växjö , Sweden Full Member Institution

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Mission Statement

We educate designers to play key roles in shaping futures of sustainability as agents for change.

International Role

Our partner collaborations for knowledge exchange share focus on creative and critical engagement with sustainability. 

National Role

In the national and regional sector, we develop sustainable strategies for forest, housing, crafting, and making in network collaborations with industry, society and governing bodies. 

Main Focus

In our education and research we emphasise the very potential of design to affect change and to extend it. Change comprises different degrees and perspectives on change, such as adaptation, evolution and revolution. To affect change through design can be about initiatives directed at products, systems or worldviews. We can choose to use design to affect change locally, regionally or globally, and with focus on ecology, economy, human health and equality, or all of this simultaneously. Altogether + Change is about purposefully using design, and its inherent creativity, in order to achieve changes towards futures of sustainability.

Faculties and Departments

The Department of Design (DE) at Linnaeus University is part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Bachelor Level Programs

BFA, Design + Change, 180 ects

BFA, Visual Communication + Change, 180 ects

Master Level Programs

MFA, Design + Change, 120 ects

MFA, Innovation through Business, Engineering and Design – specialisation design, 120 ects

Research Activity and Main Areas

Interdiscplinary, collaborative research activity ranging from international, multi-faculty and externally funded research through metadesign, transdisciplinary design, artistic research and site specific crafting with focus areas including care, systems thinking, resilience, intersections of power and technology, climate emergency, gender and language, feminist, norm critical, decolonial, participary, and tacit knowledge. 

Doctorate Level Programs

DA, 240 ects, is offered in collaboration with Malmö University with focus areas in artistic research, sustainability and design. 

Subject Areas for Exchange Students

BFA Design + Change, Semester 5 / Autumn, Ecological, economical, social and cultural change. 

MFA Design + Change, Semester 3 / Autumn, Metadesign, Transdisciplinary Design, Design research. 

Application Deadlines

15th December 
15th March  

Teaching Languages

English 

Semester Dates

Autumn semester: Starts end August- September / week 36. Ends mid-January / week 3 

Spring semester: Starts  mid- January / week 4. Ends early June / week 23

Cost of Living Per Month (Studying and Living)

Rent about 350 to 600 eur.
Monthly living expenses upto 300 eur.
Material expenses in workshops of about 300 eur.

Students

Bachelor: 200
Master: 40
Doctorate: 3

Exchange Students

Incoming: 5-7
Outgoing: 2-4
Others: 1

Teaching Staff

Professors: 2
Lectures: 25
Other permanent teachers: 4
Part-time Teachers: 15

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