Welcome to Konstfack, the university of arts, crafts and design where materiality and the ability to imagine have been developed since 1844.
Konstfack is Sweden’s largest university for arts, crafts and design. Since 1844, we have educated a diverse range of professionals within these fields as well as art and sloyd teachers. We conduct both artistic and scientific education/research and currently have about 1000 students and 200 employees. The students are enrolled in bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and teacher training programmes and in freestanding courses.
For us, internationalisation is vital and several of our students and educators come from other parts of the world. This fosters knowledge exchange, prepares students for a globalized future, brings new friends to Konstfack from a diverse range of fields and promotes understanding between countries, cultures and religions.
Materiality and the ability to imagine are Konstfack’s strengths. We study, handle, develop and relate to materials by means of daily, practical exploration. Both our education and research expand imaginations: this is a prerequisite for a more sustainable society, as information and knowledge are no longer sufficient as a force for change. We need to understand how things could be, engage with these opportunities and create new behavioural patterns in our day-to-day lives. In order to achieve this, we have our own research education programme called Doctoral Education in Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts. In addition, we conduct several research projects through three research platforms – internal networks that operates across institutional boundaries: Microhistories, Design Explorations and Heritage, Culture, Community.
Our campus, which is more than 20,000 square metres in area, is also home to some of Europe’s most well-equipped workshops and an outstanding library. ICT suites, wood and metal workshops, screen printing, a weaving room, textile printing, a paint shop, a graphics workshop, a photo and TV studio, a glass studio, a ceramics workshop and studios for sculpture and painting. In Konstfack's workshops everything is possible! And not only that, the school also has one of Sweden's most well-stocked art and design libraries. We are equally proud that the QS Top University Rankings have named Konstfack the best in Sweden, third in the Nordic region, 13th best in Europe and 41 in the world.
Welcome to apply as a student or colleague or visit us to get to know us better.
The disease covid-19 has hit Sweden, the EU and the rest of the world hard. The development has also meant a sharp economic downturn. The Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and the European Commission have agreed on a temporary recovery instrument, Next Generation EU (NGEU).
Read Sweden's recovery and resilience plan: Sveriges återhämtningsplan (in Swedish).