Design Formgiving Professor

5 days ago

Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland Euraxess Full time
Job Overview
Aalto University is seeking a talented and motivated individual to join our team as an Assistant or Associate Professor in Design Formgiving. The successful candidate will have a strong research profile, the capacity to bridge theory and practice, and a clear vision for the future of design education and the profession.

The Department of Design at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture is a community of creative and responsible researchers and design experts. We educate front-line design professionals and visionaries for established, changing and emerging fields of design.

This tenure track professorship is centered on design as a contemporary and unfolding formgiving practice. The position will address the integration of formgiving with diverse layers of professional design practice, including strategic thinking, conceptions and representations of the end-users, design tools and processes, and contemporary production methods and technologies.

Your Role and Goals
You will be expected to make a significant contribution to the evolving and expanding field of design, foster different cross-field collaborations, and contribute to curriculum development. Your teaching responsibilities will include deepening the discussion on design formgiving in BA and MA levels, and integrating design knowledge and design methods into both established and emerging design domains.

About Us
Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges.

What We Offer
We offer a meaningful and inspiring environment, a culture that inspires and includes everyone, a responsible and meaningful role with true impact in our University's/School's success, support, coaching and support, great possibilities for competence development and learning, and workshop and studio infrastructure with no comparison in the Nordics.

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