Konstfack is Sweden's largest and oldest university college of fine arts, founded in 1844. Each year, around 900 students participate in bachelor, master, doctoral studies, teacher training, and free-standing courses. Many of them come from other parts of the world, as do many of our teachers. This internationalization allows for the exchange of knowledge and promotes understanding between countries, cultures, and religions. It also prepares you as a student for the world as a future arena and place of work. Konstfack is the best in Sweden! We are not alone in thinking this. The international rankings company QS Top Universities agreed when it placed us at the top of its 2016 list of fine arts universities in Sweden. We are second best in the Nordic countries, number 11 in Europe, and number 41 globally. Hurrah!
Here at Sweden's largest fine arts university college, you can develop into and inhabit those prominent roles that stem from our programs – artist, designer, interior architect, graphic designer, illustrator, teacher, as well as a craftsperson in a range of materials – such as a jewelry designer. And of course, there are several paths to take within the design field, from product and furniture design to designing services. But our alumni also include actors, directors, game designers, fashion designers, communications officers, project managers, and supervisors. A degree from Konstfack is a creative, academic, solid foundation on which you can stand, dig deeper into, and develop from. An education that allows you to participate in the contemporary social debate by developing attitudes, environments, products, and services in private and public spaces.
At Konstfack, we value critical thinking and an empathic approach, and we, therefore, focus as much on why a person seeks us out as we do on what they already know. Our Vice-Chancellor Maria Lantz is keen to emphasize that "Konstfack is a school for dreamers, doubters, reformists, believers, activists, utopists, individuals, dystopian, entrepreneurs, ramblers and other seekers." Konstfack also has some of Europe's best, most well-equipped workshops. Computer rooms, wood and metal workshops, screen printing studios, a weaving room, textile printing, color workshop, graphical workshop, photo and TV studio, glassworks, a ceramics workshop, and studios for sculpture and painting. Konstfack's workshops can make anything possible! The school also has one of Sweden's most comprehensive art and design libraries.
The research at Konstfack is characterized by the interaction of artistic and practical standpoints with scientific perspectives. An overarching aim is that Konstfack's research should contribute to a sustainable future. At Konstfack, research is conducted within the design, arts, crafts, visual communication, and arts education. The research aims to rethink the relationship between individual-community-environment radically and ultimately to contribute to a more sustainable society. The research should bring new perspectives and suggest sustainable solutions for the future. Uniquely, Konstfack combines highly specialized workshops with a lively intellectual environment. The environment presents unique conditions for research, and the research at Konstfack combines the practices of doing and creating with scientific perspectives.
Konstfack will create new knowledge and be a national and international trendsetter in art education and research and artistic subject and professional development. We offer particularly promising and motivated students and researchers in art, design, fine craftsmanship, and art teacher education in an international, multidisciplinary research environment. Our programs offer a wide selection of artistic methods as well as critical dialogue. High quality, humanism, sustainable development, and high demands for creative ability characterize Konstfack's study programs and research.
After completing the first, second, and third-cycle programs, students will have:
- The skills and knowledge required to establish themselves in their professions
- Proficiency in design work and communication, as well as the ability to think and work beyond the limits of their particular disciplines
- Critical thinking ability, courage, problem-solving skills, and leadership capacity
- Solid knowledge of the theory and history of art, design, fine craftsmanship, and art teacher education
- A broad perspective on contemporary cultural and social currents
- The knowledge required to conduct focused projects concerning issues of diversity and sustainable development
- The ability to participate.
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