Craft and design Exchange programme

Why choose craft and design?

This semester programme in craft and design offers you a handicraft- and materials-based approach to design. It offers experience in the planning and implementation of a design process from the first idea to the finished product. It gives you the opportunity to develop an awareness of your role and responsibilities when you apply practical handicrafts and materials-based design as a means of fostering change and the development of a sustainable society.

This is what the programme offers

You will choose to study in-depth one or more materials fields such as clay/ceramics, textiles or wood, and go on to develop extensive handicraft skills and a knowledge of materials, tools and techniques. There will opportunities to combine many materials fields, including metals. Exploratory work will enable you to learn to forge connections between form, function and the responsible use of materials.

You will find well-equipped workshops dedicated to materials such as wood, metals, clay and textiles. Different types of project work will challenge you not only to explore the functional, form-related and expressive aspects of handicrafts, but also to develop your own, unique products and forms of expression. You will develop an experience-based awareness of your materials and an ability critically to evaluate and understand your own and others’ roles in fostering sustainable wealth creation as working craftspersons and designers.

Works in clay and ceramics

Works in textile and textile products

Works in wood with metal

A social student community

The Notodden campus offers a student community imbued with the joys of artistic creation. We have extensive experience in the teaching of all aspects of art and design, and you will meet experienced teachers and researchers who are highly skilled in their respective subjects.

The study programme combines your individual and specialist skills with a campus interplay that merges the various skills of your fellow students, teachers and researchers into one creative community.

The programme is taught entirely on the Notodden campus, where you will have the opportunity to take part in an active, varied and inclusive learning environment.