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The design field at the Swedish School of Textiles bring together artistic practice and academic exploration. Education and research intersect in an experimental environment where textile and fashion design evolve in close dialogue with materials, technology, and society. Through exploratory work – in studios, labs, and theory – students, researchers, and faculty contribute to new knowledge and expressions for a sustainable future.
Fashion design is about reflecting how people live, act, and behave. By designing the functions and expressions of clothing and other products and artefacts related to the body, fashion designers can explore, develop, and propose new possibilities. This can range from diversification and freedom of expression from a social and cultural sustainability perspective to the development of clothing that enables, contributes to, and shapes different human activities in, for example, sports, outdoors, or work.
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The Bachelor of Fine Arts programme in Textile Design focuses on design development, textile materials, and the exploration of both traditional and contemporary textile techniques. You will learn about current research in materials and fibres and use this understanding to experiment with how textiles can be designed and applied in a variety of projects. Sustainability is a core value of the programme and is integrated into all stages of the design process.
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At the Swedish School of Textiles, fashion design is understood in its broadest sense as an activity that explores, expresses, and shapes individuals, communities, bodies, and human-cultural interactions. In the Master's programme specialising in Fashion Design, questions and issues related to expressions centred around the human body are explored and developed from a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, technical, economic, and political considerations, all within a cultural context.
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Clothes and body-related artefacts can be active, responsive, protective, or supportive in human actions and activities. In this way, clothes can play a central role in various types of body-based activities, human performances, and interactions with the environment. Specialising in Performance Wear at the Swedish School of Textiles involves exploring and developing apparel that can perform – act and interact – in relation to various human activities and performances in outdoor, sports, work, or artistic contexts, considering a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, ethical, technical, and cultural factors.
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Our programme in Textile Design can take you further than you imagined. The Swedish School of Textiles, specialising in textile design, provides a forward-looking environment for rethinking and creating textiles within its expanded field, including Textile Craft, New Materiality, Innovation, and Digital Specialisms. It delves deep into the most relevant subjects and skills required for a career in the textile industry and related industries.
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Specialising in Textile Interaction Design involves exploring and developing textiles that interact with and adapt to their surroundings as well as to bodies, actions, humans, and other species. This specialisation delves into questions and issues related to textile interaction from a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, ethical, technical, and cultural considerations.
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The doctoral education in Textiles and Fashion Design is focused on deepening the understanding of the interaction between analysis and synthesis in the design process, theoretically as well as practically, as a basis for developing design methodology, design technology, and design programmes, which requires a practice-based approach; for design, through design.
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Explore the textile talents of the future. Here we gather graduation collections and projects from the BFA and MFA programmes in textile and fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles.
The first higher education institution ever to design and develop a new tour guide collection for the headquarters of the United Nations (UN)
Here creativity and theory are combined with practical work in our machine parks and laboratories.
Read more about our labs!The ArcInTex European Training Network (ETN) aims to strengthen the foundations of design for new forms of more sustainable ways of living by connecting architecture, textiles and interaction design in a training network for early-stage rese...
The Body, Dress, Space program challenges the understanding of fashion and dress through basic art and design research. The program experiments and explores new expressions and functions in clothing and fashion through approaching dress in ...
