Lecturer in Design with Module Responsibility 35% – 45%

Closer to changing the world.

As the largest educational institution of the six Central Swiss cantons, the Hochschule Luzern is at the pulse of the times with its offering. Far-sighted and innovative, we convey knowledge nationally and internationally. Help shape and become part of our shared, sustainable future.

Die Hochschule Luzern – Design Film Kunst is the creative space for people who want to move the world. For more than 140 years, lecturers, researchers, employees, and students have met here in an inspiring environment and together cultivate a culture of openness, which becomes visible in the lively, bright workspaces in Luzern-Emmenbrücke. Profiled teams and international networking offer diverse development opportunities.

The Gestalterischer Vorkurs of the Hochschule Luzern offers orientation and a sound foundation for further studies and training paths in the fields of design, film, and art. Its modular structure opens up a flexible learning path and creates space for observation, experiment, and a change of perspective. In addition to manual and technical competencies, the development of an individual design and artistic language as well as interdisciplinary thinking are the focus. In exchange with fellow students and lecturers, students thus lay the foundation for a curious, critical, and contemporary design and artistic practice.

For the Gestalterischer Vorkurs, we are looking for, as of 1. August 2027, a

Lecturer in Design with Module Responsibility 35% – 45%

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 tension between 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 interdisciplinary, and combine digital design processes with traditional manufacturing and material techniques. The Vorkurs prepares students for a degree program, including the Product and Industrial Design course (Textile Design, Object Design, Spatial Design, Creative Transformation).

As a lecturer

• Development and implementation of teaching formats for conveying conceptual, methodical, and technical foundations of design processes, including the involvement of digital technologies/AI as well as manual procedures.
• Didactically sound support of work processes, from research through concept development to presentation.
• Supporting students in the development of a design position and language.
• Promoting a professionally informed, sustainable, and experimental design practice and a responsible handling of materials and resources.
• Supervision and mentoring of students in the portfolio process.

As a module responsible person

• Overall responsibility for the content, organizational, and personnel planning, implementation, and further development of the responsible module according to specifications.
• Lateral leadership of the lecturers and teaching assistants active in the module; in particular, ensuring communication, promoting cooperation, and coordinating work assignments. Recruitment of teaching assistants in consultation with the co-leadership.
• Planning and distribution of resources and material assets within the module.
• Ensuring the didactic quality and currency of the teaching. Quality assurance and further development of the module, including feedback to the lecturers.
• Participation in the professional, organizational, and personnel further development of the Gestalterischer Vorkurs.
• Representation of the field of Product and Industrial Design in the core team and within the Department Design Film Kunst.
• Active participation in exchange, planning, evaluation, and development forums and participation in strategic issues.

Your profile

• 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 are networked.
• You have teaching experience at a university or a Gestalterischer Vorkurs. A certificate in higher education didactics can be acquired as part of the employment.
• You possess strong methodical competencies and are familiar with current, circular design processes.
• You are proficient in the use of digital design and visualization tools (e.g., Onshape, SolidWorks, Rhino, KeyShot, F j4id10422077a j4it1040a j4iy26a}