Design University of Gothenburg

Overview

Design from University of Gothenburg  aims to explore and redefine the positionality of the designer within complex social and hegemonic structures. While acknowledging that design can be leveraged for various purposes, we nurture a design practice that, in conjunction with other knowledge disciplines, has the capacity to create tangible imaginaries for forming just and long-term habitable societies. 

Quick Facts:

• As an open, social, and relational practice, we believe design has the potential to both shape and reflect the world we inhabit. By recognizing the intricacies and challenges of our time, we view design as a tool to mediate conditions and possibilities in a diversity of professional contexts. 
• The programme curriculum directly engages with a variety of important themes and urgent questions. Working with and through a rich variation of design methods, students critically engage with issues concerning built and unbuilt environments, welfare, spatial justice, labour, heritage, and resilience to conflict.
• We identify design as a subject that profoundly shapes our lives in many ways. As such, we teach design as an expanded field of practice with potential to contribute knowledge and critical perspectives to questions of social, political, and ecological concern. Simultaneously, we acknowledge the capacity of design to visually and materially respond to the relational dimensions of how we perceive the world. Led by practice, we connect with our surroundings while researching global emerging phenomena to engage with contemporary ways of designing for life together.