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Master of European Design (MEDes) is a unique degree programme within a network of seven leading design schools in Europe. [1]
During the five-year programme, students experience three design education systems and join a strong international community. The location diversity provides insight into design approaches, multi-national perspectives and creates sensitivity towards cultural differences.
During the two years abroad the students follow the curricular content offered by the programme of the respective partner university. This results in each student acquiring a unique skill set and combination of projects. The studies abroad take place in English or in the respective national language.
The Polytechnic University of Milan is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest university in Milan.
Konstfack, or University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany.
Alfred Hrdlicka was an Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, painter and professor. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička.
Audencia Business School is a top Grande École and business school in France and in Europe, and is one of the only 1% of business schools in the world accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Audencia is also BSIS labelled. The school enrolls 4,500 students from almost 90 countries on bachelors, international masters, specialised masters, MBAs, doctorates and executive education courses.
Adolf Richard Hölzel was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.
Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer.
Founded in 1979 as a Consortium between the Politecnico di Milano and many Italian institutions and several leading public and private industrial groups, today MIP Politecnico di Milano is a non-for-profit consortium limited company.
Ronald Jones was an American artist, critic and educator who gained prominence in New York City during the mid-1980s. In the magazine Contemporary, Brandon Labelle wrote: "Working as an artist, writer, curator, professor, lecturer and critic over the last 20 years, Jones is a self-styled Conceptualist, spanning the worlds of academia and art, opera and garden design, and acting as paternal spearhead of contemporary critical practice. Explorative and provocative, Jones creates work that demands attention that is both perceptual and political." Labelle positions Jones along the leading edge of a "contemporary critical practice" that is perhaps best described as interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary.
A Kunstgewerbeschule was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for these schools. From the 1920s and after World War II, most of them either merged into universities or closed, although some continued until the 1970s.
Mark Lammert, is a German painter, illustrator, graphic artist and stage designer. He lives and works in Berlin.
Georg Meistermann was a German painter and draftsman who was also famous for his stained glass windows in the whole of Europe.
The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, German: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, is an academy of arts in Karlsruhe, in Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germany. It is one of the smaller German art schools, with an average of 300 students.
ENSCI–Les Ateliers, the École nationale supérieure de création industrielle, is a French design school located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. As a public commercial and industrial establishment under authority of both the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Industry, it is the first and only French national institute exclusively devoted to the advanced studies in design. It is a member of the Hautes Études-Sorbonne-Arts et Métiers cluster and of the Conférence des grandes écoles.
Bernhard Pankok was a modern German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer.
Anthonie Wilhelmus (Toon) Verhoef is a Dutch painter, ceramist and art lecturer.
The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart is a university in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1761 and located since 1946 on the Weißenhof, the Academy, whose historical significance marks names such as Nicolas Guibal, Bernhard Pankok, Adolf Hölzel, Willi Baumeister, Herbert Hirche, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Alfred Hrdlicka, Marianne Eigenheer, Joseph Kosuth, Joan Jonas, Micha Ullman, offers from all art universities in the federal state Baden-Württemberg the largest numbers of courses, namely all disciplines of the visual field, and not just in an organizational network but also under one roof. This is essentially the result of the connection of the former Academy of Fine Arts with the former School of Applied Arts in 1941 as Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, which was reconstituted in 1946 under the same name and which aimed at a broad training program as well as an intensified development in the following decades.
Wolfgang Kermer is a German art historian, artist, art pedagogue, author, editor, organizer of exhibitions and professor. From 1971 to 1984 he was Rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. His focus is the history of Visual arts education and the art of Willi Baumeister.