The Master in Digital Communication Environments at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW introduces students to experimental disciplines within digital design to develop a refined personal practice.

School: Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Course: Master in Digital Communication Environments
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Course dates: September 2025 to July 2027 (four semesters, starting annually)
Application deadline: 15 March 2025

The programme enables students to enhance their skills in the areas of design practices, technical knowledge, research methods and theoretical knowledge in the context of digital communication channels.

This master's programme offers three areas in which the students can enhance their skills over the course of four semesters. The first, expanding the experimental and reflective design practice of visual messages for analogue and digital communication environments. The second, getting acquainted with research methods from design-oriented research and experimental exploration of new technologies to empirical evaluation of visual messages. The third, getting an overview of relevant positions in visual, media and communication theory as well as philosophy, anthropology and psychology in order to critically put design decisions, concepts and research questions into context.

On the basis of a practical foundation in a design-oriented bachelor's study programme or a theory-oriented bachelor's degree in cultural studies, the main goal of the study programme is a complementary fusion of skills between design and communication practice, research and theory.

All students engage with the fields of design practice, practice-based research and theoretical reflection across the first three semesters. The following fourth semester is the thesis semester. Through working together throughout their studies, the students, who come from different educational and cultural backgrounds, gradually acquire a combined set of practical, research and theoretical communication skills.

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Image credit Co-Create Week at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW with Ted Davis, Digital Communication Environments, photo by Pati Grabowicz

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