We are looking forward to 14 new students (8 full-time, 6 part-time; 8 Entrepreneurship, 6 Research) and 1 visiting student with 9 different nationalities, who will start their studies at the HKB / MA DESIGN in the autumn semester 2019. Welcome to the Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB!

The awards season continues: Today we can congratulate HKB / MA DESIGN-Alumna Nina Paim on the “Josef Müller-Brockmann Advancement Award for Young Designers 2019”!

She shares the prize money of CHF 25000 with Simon Mager (alumnus of ECAL). The award ceremony will take place on November 6 at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

We are delighted that critical research is increasingly appreciated in design funding and would like to thank the jury and the Shizuko Yoshikawa and Josef Müller-Brockmann Foundation for the organization of the award.

Photo by Nicole Hametner (http://www.nicolehametner.ch/) for HKB.

We congratulate our student Hanna Büker to her participation in DEAL, the program of the Berner Designinitiative for excellent entrepreneurial design projects!

In her project “Design for End of Life,” Hanna creates tools which help facilitate better end of life experiences. The products are intended to support family members with activities for the „daily farewell routine”. The goal is the improvement of the quality of life at the end of life.

DEAL includes:
· A flexible workplace, access to members-only-events and individual advice offered by Impact Hub Bern,
· access to the Creative Business Coaching with up to 16 customized consulting/training sessions, support in networking and participation in the Creative Business Cup offered by the Creative Hub,
· a one-off financial support of approx. CHF 4000, usage of the HKB infrastructure and advice offered by the Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB Inkubator,
· In addition, we motivate the participants to apply for funding from the Berner Design Stiftung.

Find out more about DEAL and the current participants on https://designinitiative.ch/posts/deal?locale=de#0.

Tomorrow, there will be an opportunity to inform about the HKB / MA Design and the other study courses in the field of Gestaltung und Kunst.

We will guide you through the Finale 19 /// HKB-Diplomsommer and show you exciting works by our students. Let’s meet at the Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB, Fellerstrasse 11 at 18:00.

As design moves away from a focus on authorship and lifestyle, questions of social relevance and impact come to the foreground.

The students of the HKB / MA DESIGN invited guests from Switzerland and abroad to talk about Dilemma! in terms of spaces, kinship, and visual narratives, including Danah Abdulla, Irene Stutz, Jacopo Ottaviani, Laura Coppens, Martina Guhl, Michaela Büsse, Neil Beercroft, Rebekka Kiesewetter and Vlad Glaveanu.

The Dilemma! Dilemma! conference took place at PROGR in Bern on 24 and 25 May 2019. Further information: www.dilemmadilemma.ch.

Designers, you can register until 13 August 2019 for the Berner Design Stiftung's 2019 funding offers! The most important requirement is that you have been living or working in the canton of Berne for at least two years. You can find all the funding opportunities and the registration form at http://www.bernerdesignstiftung.ch/foerderung/.

We congratulate MAD alumna Nina Paim and her colleague Corinne Gisel on the Swiss Design Awards in the category Mediation for their practice as common-interest! We are enthusiastic about how you opened the design discourse to oppressed topics, and look forward to hopefully many more joint projects with you.

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