Design School Kolding

Design School Kolding's BA Programme requires Danish language proficiency. See description of our MA Programme below:

Our MA programme is an international, cross-disciplinary programme that supports and challenges the fields of Communication Design, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Textile Design, and Accessory Design and allows students to specialise in one of three areas: Design for Play, Design for Planet and Design for People; areas to which we also dedicate our research and development activities. The Programme focuses on collaboration with the business community and wider society (e.g. LEGO, Ecco, local hospitals, banks, etc.) along with individual courses based on specific cases. Collaborations and courses have strong elements of making, engaging, and co-creating with users. This could involve clothes, games, products, user interfaces, services, physical surroundings, toys – whatever supports the playful human being, sustainable living, or a socially inclusive society. All courses conclude with a design project. Therefore, along with your ability to communicate and put yourself on display, your portfolio gets a boost.

Design for Play
Design School Kolding, the LEGO Foundation and the LEGO Group have joined forces to establish the world’s first, exclusive two-year international Master’s Degree Programme within Design for Play.
The Programme is based on Scandinavian design, an international outlook, and advanced level research in design methodology and user centred studies. It affiliates some of the world’s best designers, researchers and knowledge partners and creates a hub for play and design that demonstrates how research into play can achieve a practical impact. You learn to utilize play as a creative tool and motivating factor in design processes and how to design for meaningful play experiences.
The Programme offers scholarships for non-EU students.

Design for Planet
Design School Kolding has worked with sustainability in research, education and development projects for more than 20 years. We profoundly believe that a sustainable strategy must be part of the efforts to solve global problems with regard to resources, working conditions and pollution.
The Programme enables you to adopt sustainability as a fundamental mindset. This allows you to create new and relevant products and services that are valuable and meaningful to users, along with new business developments within for instance circular economy and sharing economy. As part of the Programme, you will also work with developing and facilitating a sustainable strategy within established companies and production.

Design for People

Social inclusion has been a main priority for Design School Kolding for many years, and we focus a great deal of our teaching and our research and development activities on how to improve social conditions and create social value. Our mindset originates from the Danish welfare society, and we regard design as a mediator for meaningful interaction between people, and between people and the wider community.
Based on a design oriented and technological approach that promotes dialogue, the Programme applies diverse design methodologies with a strong focus on users. This approach enables you to create new products, services and systems that are profitable and enhance human interaction and foster meaningful societal relations.