Master in Design

Master in design

About the master's program in design

We are looking for you who have an open mind and are interested in design as a tool for change, wonder, immersion and investigation. It is in the unconventional, curious and unpredictable that we find the way to the expanded importance of the design subject in culture, society and business. A new designer role will help set the agenda for societal development.

In our two-year, interdisciplinary study program in the design fields of visual communication and furniture and room design / interior architecture, you develop and immerse yourself in a self-chosen project. In the application, you describe the project you want to work on.

The master's project is developed through an open and dynamic process, with emphasis on research, experimentation and critical reflection - in discussions and collaboration with fellow students and faculty. You become part of a stimulating professional environment that works across established professional boundaries.

Your everyday life will consist of independent work and work in small groups, in addition to lectures, courses and workshops. The Department of Design has small master's cohorts that provide close contact between academic staff and students. We also invite international capacities to hold lectures and workshops.

In our many workshops you will be able to develop prototypes and models. A wide range of external partners provide opportunities for the development and testing of new ideas - and at the same time provide an understanding of society's rapid development.

The master's program in design is an international study program. The language of instruction is English and the students represent different nationalities. As a master's student, you have good opportunities to travel on exchange, also to foreign institutions. The exchange stay is considered part of the study and is highly recommended.

The study ends with a major public exhibition.

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Exhibition, Concert/Sound

The Wind Cannot Hear Me

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Event, Exhibition

Dig It Up and Put It in a Bag

Corona

Information for students and staff about the corona virus

07/09 - 2021

Communicating climate change through art in Greenland and Fiji

In a groundbreaking multidisciplinary project with the Bjerknes Centre for climate research, Eamon O´Kane, professor of Visual art at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at UoB, will facilitate and inspire the writing of stories and paintings by young people from Greenland and Fiji. In this way showing the effects of climate change on their lives.

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Masterclass with Roeland Hendrikx

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The Grieg Academy – Department of Music

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Department of Design

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Works & Productions →

Browse through works and productions by former MA students as well as the Faculty's artistic research at the Departments of contemporary art, music and design.

Multi Kolore

Alexandra Jegerstedt

Multi Kolore , 2019

Mixed media

Master concert, Scene USF, Nattjazz 27 May

Andri Schärli

Master concert, Scene USF, Nattjazz 27 May , 2019

Closing the Eyes to see That Which the Retina Refuses to Acknowledge

Sofia Magdalena Eliasson

Closing the Eyes to see That Which the Retina Refuses to Acknowledge , 2017

Ceramics, Sculpture, Wood

No Sign Should Remain Inert

Lucila Mayol

No Sign Should Remain Inert , 2018

Computer game

Fabeldyr med snakkebobler

Anette Aga

Fabeldyr med snakkebobler , 2017

Visual Communication

About the Faculty of Fine Art,

Music and Design

The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) offers BA, MA and PhD programmes based on an internationally recognised level of artistic research.

We educate future artists, designers, performing musicians, composers, music therapists, musicologists, curators, and music and art teachers.

The faculty consists of about 600 students and 190 employees, of which approx. 130 are academics. Academic activities are organised across three departments with a joint administration: Fine Art, Music, and Design. The departments have research fellows who are affiliated with one of UiB's PhD programmes - either the new artistic programme or the scientific.