The Danish Design School Danmarks Designskole
Established	1875
Dean	Anne-Louise Sommer
Students	550
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Website	http://www.dkds.dk

The Danish Design School (Danish: Danmarks Designskole. often often abbreviated as DKDS) is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark, offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in design and related fields, as well as conducting research within the fields of arts, crafts and design.

The Danish Design School shares its premises with the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

Contents 1 History 2 Location 3 Education 4 Alumni 5 External links 6 References

[edit] History

The Danish Design School traces its roots back to the foundation of the Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen in 1875. Upon a merger in 1930, the school changed its name to Kunsthåndværkerskolen (English: The School of Arts and Crafts) and after several further mergers with other schools it received its current name in 1991.^[1]

[edit] Location

Since 1989, the school has been located at its current address at 47 Strandboulevarden in the [Østerbro]] district of Copenhagen.

[edit] Education

The educational programme spans 5 years, divided into a 3-year basic programme, broadly equivalent to a bachelor's degree, and a 2-year advanced programme, comparable to a master's. Specializations currently on offer include fashion design, digital interaction, industrial design, ceramics and glass design, furniture and spatial design, production design, textile design, and visual communication [1]. The school carries out both basic as well as practice based and applied research, and is a member of the Danish national Center for Design Research [2].

The school traces its roots to the late 19th Century. In 1990 various institutions, the oldest founded in 1875 (The School of Drawing and Art Industry) and others from the 1930s (The School of Interior Design and The School of Arts and Crafts), were merged under the new name of Danmarks Designskole. It has since changed from being an independent institution to functioning under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture [3]. Danmarks Designskole is one of two Danish design schools organized under the ministry of Culture, the other being Designskolen Kolding in Kolding. A majority of professional Danish designers have graduated from one of these two schools.

Since 2007, it has hosted the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, a postgraduate school and consultancy which focuses on the area of Interaction Design.

[edit] Alumni

• Poul Kjærholm
• Børge Mogensen
• Hans Wegner
• Nanna Ditzel
• Jacob Jensen
• Kasper Salto
• Louise Campbell
• Cecilie Mainz

[edit] External links

• Danmarks Designskole
• Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

Coordinates: 55°42′8.68″N 12°35′16.49″E / 55.7024111°N 12.5879139°E / 55.7024111; 12.5879139

[edit] References

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