Bachelor of Culture and Arts in Smart and Sustainable Design

Degree program in Smart and Sustainable Design focuses on the importance of sustainable values and the challenges of circular economy.

You will learn how to use and combine both traditional and modern techniques with design thinking and a strong creative and material-based mindset. Studying in a studio environment with modern facilities, you will earn a deep understanding of the product and production.

Smart and Sustainable Design program allows you to choose your major subject in clothing, footwear or glass and ceramics design.

In the first and the second year of studies:

• you gain an understanding of the work process for designing and manufacturing products / services
• you learn design skills
• you understand sustainable and smart design
• you deepen your understanding of the industrial operating environment of product design and manufacturing
• you apply the lessons learned in practice by carrying out your first work placement

Later in your studies:

• you apply your professional competence to multidisciplinary projects
• you use design methods to obtain user information
• you practice the principles of shared expertise and teamwork in various kinds of projects
• you refine your professional activities as well as your ability to apply a systematic and research-orientated approach to your work.
• you apply smart and sustainable design

Studies also include a work placement and a bachelor’s thesis.

Smart and Sustainable Design education provides the ability to work as a designer in companies in different fields and in public organizations, or act as an independent entrepreneur.

There is demand for the service and user experience design, where social media competence, marketing expertise and visualization expertise are combined with designer competence.

People with design education are increasingly setting up their own businesses and working in a diverse range of creative industries. Professional titles include: designer, entrepreneur, product assistant, product designer, product manager, buyer, project seller and project manager.

The admission requirements for the program can be found on the university page.

Further information about the tuition fee and available scholarships for the program can be found on the university page.