Bachelor in XS Jewellery

The students are challenged to critically examine human desires and their values in the context of ever-changing social sensitivities, while at the same time keeping the concrete outcomes open-ended. They design body-related objects and mesh them with their own sensory-emotional experiences. Focused on workshop activities, they experiment with a wide range of materials and evolve their projects both in terms of content communication and tactile functionality in a juxtaposed interplay of manual and digital manufacturing methods. The path to their own individual art-design stance is explored via interdisciplinary crossovers: jewellery design – performative object – wearable design – medical prostheses  – digital materiality – conceptual craft – art. What emerges at the end of each entirely individual learning process is the authentic: wearable statements and emotionally evocative products that convey meaning regarding the crucial questions of desirability, viability, sustainability and social relevance. What is too much, what is X-cess, what is e-S-sential? Which items are important; what do we carry around with us and why?