Master's in Textile and Fashion Design with specialisation in Fashion Design

The University of Borås offers a wide range of bachelor's and master's degree programs in various fields of study. The institution has several faculties, including the School of Business and IT, the Faculty of Textiles, Engineering, and Business, and the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education, and IT. Programs are available in areas such as business administration, engineering, fashion, textiles, library and information science, and pedagogy. The University of Borås has a strong emphasis on applied research and collaboration with industries, organizations, and public sectors. The institution conducts research that addresses real-world challenges and strives to contribute to innovation and societal development.

Want to educate yourself in fashion and textile design? Are you looking for an education that encourages an experimental and exploratory approach? Then the Master’s Programme in Fashion and Textile Design might be the education for you. In the school’s laboratories, you get the opportunity to test many of your design ideas. At the Swedish School of Textiles, fashion design is understood in its broadest sense as an activity that explores, expresses, and shapes persons, peoples, bodies and human-cultural interactions. In the Master Programme with specialization in fashion design, questions and issues about human body centered expressions are explored and developed from a wide range of perspectives – environmental, technical, economic, political – within a cultural context. As a student here, you will have the opportunity to explore and develop a subject you choose yourself through a series of project-based courses. You will develop and introduce theoretical concepts through experimental and practical design development. The educational programme places great emphasis on artistic research work and encourages experimental, investigatory work that pushes the boundaries of the performance wear field. In the first year, you will deepen your knowledge and skills in design methods and techniques as well as your ability to critically reflect upon and define ideas for exploration and development through design. The last year is devoted to design research and degree project work, followed by elective courses that further prepare you for a career in the fashion design sector with its various actors or a career in academia with a focus on doctoral studies. During the two years of the programme, you will also meet every week with fellow students and faculty members in design seminars that introduce and discuss a broad range of perspectives on design practice and research, from ethics to materiality, from art to business, that will help build your knowledge and skills for more complex interdisciplinary collaborations.