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Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main
Founded in 1832
HEAD OF THE INSTITUTION
President, Professor Bernd Kracke
ADDRESS
Schlossstrasse 31, DE-63008 Offenbach am Main, Germany
Phone +49 69 800 590, Fax +49 69 8005 9109
Website http://www.hfg-offenbach.de
CAMPUSES
CONTACT PERSON
Dean, Professor Bernhard E. Bürdek
P.O. Box 10 08 23, DE-63008 Offenbach am Main
Phone +49 69 8005 9150, Fax +49 69 8005 9151
E-mail buerdek[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de
OTHER CONTACT PERSONS
Dr. Vera Sponheimer-Bram, sponheimer-Bram[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de
GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE MEMBER UNIT
A. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
FACULTIES AND DEPARTMENTS OF THE MEMBER UNIT
Visual Communication
Product/Industrial Design
AVAILABLE MASTER LEVEL OR EQUIVALENT PROGRAMS AND THE ESTIMATED DURATION OF STUDYING
Visual Communication: 5 years
Product/Industrial Design: 5 years
MAIN FOCUS IN EDUCATION
Art, Design and Media
RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND MAIN RESEARCH AREAS
The Department Industrial Design offers practical and theoretical design education. The "theory of product language" is worldwide recognizes as a major contribution to design. The department concentrates on a "disciplinary approach" of designtheory and the relation to other disciplines (interdisciplinarity). We are interested to find new cooperations for this very unique approach.
B. AIMS, PHILOSOPHY AND COLLABORATION
SUMMARY OF MISSION STATEMENT
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach has been a college of art and & design with university status since 1970, though it goes back as far as the year 1832. What makes our college different from other colleges of art and design is its highly open approach: fine arts, media studies and applied design are accorded the same degree of importance in terms of teaching and integrative development. An important factor in this is the interaction of theory and design, experiment and product as well as new and old techniques in image production. The promotion of communicative intelligence is just as much one of our aims as is acquiring an emotional, sensuous level of maturity. The concept of reality in art, design and the media has been highly influenced by developments in cross-medial and cross-cultural convergences. This is reflected in our course structures. We aim to train artists and designers to enable them to master professional demands that are constantly changing. The degree course offers a choice of five different final examination topics: art, communication design, media studies, stage design [Dept. of Visual Communication] and product design [ibid.]. Additionally, the college offers a one-year (2-semester), project-oriented postgraduate course.
THE ROLE OF THE MEMBER UNIT IN INTERNATIONAL SECTOR AND ITS COLLABORATION WITH PARTNER UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Member of ELIA
Partner Universities in Taipeh, Havanna, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Queensland, Auckland and many European Countries
THE ROLE OF THE MEMBER UNIT IN NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SECTORS AND IN HOME CITY AND ITS COLLABORATION WITH PARTNER UNIVERSITIES, ASSOCIATIONS, INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS CONNECTIONS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
Member of Hessische Theaterakademie
Future Hessische Film- und Medienakademie
INFORMATION ON STUDENT EXCHANGES
SUBJECT AREAS FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Industrial design, visual communication (graphic design, art, media)
DEADLINES TO APPLY FOR AN EXCHANGE PERIOD
winter semester: mid June
summer semester: mid December
TEACHING LANGUAGES
German
BEGINNING AND ENDING DATES OF THE SEMESTER
Mid October - mid February
Mid April - mid July
FIGURES
NUMBER OF DEGREE STUDENTS
Bachelor: n/a
Master: 559
Doctorate: n/a
NUMBER OF INCOMING EXCHANGE STUDENTS
9
NUMBER OF OUTGOING EXCHANGE STUDENTS
10
NUMBER OF OTHER STUDENTS (continuing education, post-experience courses, other)
42
NUMBER OF TEACHING STAFF
Professors: 23
Lecturers: 35
Other permanent teachers: 12
Part-time teachers: n/a
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