Chargé·e de cours en design avec responsabilité de module

Your Tasks

We are looking for a personality with an independent design practice as well as teaching experience in product and industrial design in the interplay of object, space, human and environment. In your practice, you combine design, technical and social issues into sustainable and innovative design concepts. You have workshop experience, work interdisciplinarily and combine digital design processes with traditional manufacturing and material techniques.

The preparatory course prepares students for studies, among others in the degree programme Product and Industrial Design (Textile Design, Object Design, Spatial Design, Creative Transformation).

As a lecturer

• Development and implementation of teaching formats to convey conceptual, methodological as well as technical fundamentals of design processes including digital technologies/AI and craft techniques.
• Didactically sound support of work processes, from research through concept development to presentation.
• Support of students in developing a design position and language.
• Promotion of a professionally informed, sustainable as well as experimental design practice and a responsible approach to materials and resources.
• Supervision and mentoring of students in the portfolio process.

As module coordinator

• Overall responsibility for the content, organisational and personnel planning, implementation and further development of the module in accordance with specifications.
• Lateral leadership of lecturers and teaching staff involved in the module; in particular ensuring communication, promoting collaboration and coordinating work assignments. Recruitment of teaching staff in consultation with the co-management.
• Planning and allocation of resources and materials within the module.
• Ensuring the didactic quality and topicality of the teaching. Quality assurance and further development of the module, including feedback to the lecturers.
• Participation in the professional, organisational and personnel development of the Design Preparatory Course.
• Representation of the subject area Product and Industrial Design in the core team and within the Department of Design Film Art.
• Active participation in exchange, planning, evaluation and development bodies and involvement in strategic issues.

• You have a completed university degree (Master or Diploma) in the field of Product and Industrial Design (Textile Design, Object Design, Spatial Design).
• You have an independent design practice with professional experience in the field of transformation or process design.
• You know the Swiss design scene, are visible in it and well networked.
• You have teaching experience at a university or a design preparatory course. A certificate in university didactics can be obtained as part of the employment.
• You have strong methodological skills and are familiar with current, circular design processes.
• You are proficient in handling digital design and visualisation tools (e.g. Onshape, Solid Works, Rhino, Key Shot, Figma, Adobe CC) as well as current AI applications.
• You are experienced in construction, prototype building and workshop processes with various materials. You master freehand as well as technical drawing.
• You are a communicative and reliable personality with strong cooperation and social skills.
• You think and work interdisciplinarily and enjoy team-oriented collaboration.
• You have organisational skills and are experienced in independently planning and implementing projects and teaching units.
• You have very good knowledge of German.

• The opportunity to bring an independent practice into teaching and to help shape the development of the Design Preparatory Course.
• An open, experimental environment at an innovative university for design, film and art.
• Modern and contemporary infrastructure with excellent analogue and digital workshops and spacious studios.
• Opportunities for professional and didactic development.
• The workplace is the Viscosistadt Campus, Lucerne-Emmenbrücke.

Thomas Aregger
Co-Head Preparatory Course
thomas.aregger

As the largest educational institution of the six Central Swiss cantons, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is at the cutting edge with its offerings. Far-sighted and innovative, nationally and internationally, we impart knowledge. Join us and become part of our shared, sustainable future.