MA/MS in Produktdesign

The Produktdesign programme at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar focuses on industrial design and social design. Its scope ranges from furniture and machines to exhibition spaces and food cooperation projects, addressing the constantly changing design fields of everyday social life. Students learn the design tools that matter in development processes and work practically and independently in the school's workshops, combining analogue and digital methods. Ideas move from hand sketches through 3D-printed preliminary models to full-scale analogue prototypes, so that form, function and the identity of a product can be understood by its users. Design concepts are developed holistically, taking into account the interaction between users and their environment. Semester projects have addressed topics such as living in rural areas, regional circular materials and climate-friendly heating and cooling, several of them as cooperation projects.