http://www.hdk.gu.se/en/nyheter/2014/hdk-recruits-three-professors-design
Professor in Design specialising on interventions

Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 5 years
Extent: 60 %
Location: School of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg
First day of employment: As soon as possible
Reference number: PER 2014/338

The School of Design and Crafts (HDK) is one of three departments in the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg. We have our roots in a historical tradition - the school was founded in 1848 - at the same time that we develop in pace with the surrounding world. Today, we provide education of designers, artisans and art and crafts teachers, and we conduct research and educate researchers in these subjects.

HDK’s programmes in design are based on a holistic perspective of design, and focus particularly on the joint design competence at the core of all design activities. We have created design programmes that have broken the boundaries between the traditional areas of design. Our students have the possibility to work across boundaries and in-depth with artefacts and services in a broader overlapping field of design, which includes environments, processes, structures and systems in a post-disciplinary spirit where great emphasis is placed on social and societal aspects of design.

HDK’s design programmes currently consist of one programme, Design, in the first cycle (undergraduate) and three programmes in the second cycle (graduate): Design, Child Culture Design (CCD) and a programme in cooperation with the School of Business, Economics and Law: Business & Design. HDK also has a third cycle (doctoral) education in design with some 10 doctoral students and actively works to build up a research environment. We also offer stand-alone courses in design.

Subject area

Design specialising on interventions

Specific subject description

Design interventions at HDK concerns how design and design processes - in dialogue with various actors and circumstances - work in their direct, actual and concrete contexts. The premise is that design, in that it aims for a change in the given - for instance socially, aesthetically and spatially- in itself is a form of intervention and a form of activism. Another premise is that change not only concerns the concrete, but also to an equal extent the imaginary - expectations and dreams just as much as concrete conditions and actual limitations.

Design interventions at HDK are an area of knowledge under development. We see that, in an increasingly diverse and multicultural society, growing demands are placed on design and design processes and what they aim for, how they take place, who they exist for and what impressions they leave. Here, there are a number of critical issues concerning participation, co-creation, sustainable development, gender, norm criticism, post and transdisciplinarity that challenge design and its methods, processes, roles and tools – i.e. as ethical/aesthetic practice. Design interventions at HDK intend to meet these challenges from a making-perspective and dialogue with other fields of knowledge and disciplines.

Job assignments


You will have particular responsibility for working together with others for outreaching, socially engaged activities with HDK as base, and to develop and problematise design and the designer as an actor in society - as practice - from an artistic perspective. The work involves developing projects, methods and processes, with regard to participation/co-creation, sustainable development, postdisciplinarity, gender/norm criticism and global challenges.

2/3 of your time will be tied to education and 1/3 to research and subject development. We see you having a complementary relationship to the professorship in design studies that is being announced in parallel with this announcement. Some of your work will concern developing and working editorially with the design programme’s publication series and towards the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts’ publication platform, PARSE. You are also encouraged to develop your own research with HDK as a base.

You will be a part of the faculty that works with the design programmes, in the first, second and third cycle (undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level), and conduct research. As a professor, you will participate in the work with education, supervision, administration and various forms of development work and expected to be an active part of the faculty as well as accustomed to work in teams. You will be an important cog in the change work directed at the development of so-called complete environments, i.e. care for the exchange between basic education, research and society in general. This includes participating in the work of developing networks, collaboration and research projects, within and outside the university world, nationally, internationally and globally, with HDK as a base.

Eligibility


According to Chapter 4 Section 4:3 of the Higher Education Ordinance, a person who has demonstrated both artistic and educational expertise is eligible to be employed as a Professor in fine arts activities.

As a grounds for assessment upon employment of a professor, the degree of such an expertise that is a requirement for employment eligibility shall apply. An equal amount of care shall be devoted to the assessment of the educational expertise as to the assessment of the scholarly or artistic expertise. Every university otherwise itself decides what assessment grounds shall be applied in the employment of a professor. Ordinance (2010:1064).

For the employment at hand, the following are also required:
- a well-documented practice of relevance to the subject area and recognized at international level
- very good knowledge of English, both spoken and written

Assessment


- well- documented artistic skill on international level
- a fine arts university education of at least a master level/equivalent in design or a design-related subject, a doctoral degree is a beneficial qualification
- well documented experience of successfully develop and lead artistic and/or academic environments
- well documented experience of successfully develop and lead artistic projects
- educational expertise demonstrated through the scope of well-performed instruction and supervision and considerable competence to develop courses
- demonstrated ability to build networks and work collaboratively and multi-trans disciplinary
- international networks in the subjectarea and related disciplines
- demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good working conditions in different professional contexts and workplace cultures
- being practically and theoretically grounded in the discussions regarding the subject designinterventions
- very good organizational skills
- very good cooperative ability

The School of Design and Crafts strive to encourage its teaching staff to have completed the University’s courses in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (HECs) or to have acquired the equivalent knowledge in another way.

We will make a comprehensive assessment and employ the person considered to have the best prerequisites to perform and develop the duties described above. Your approach to design and the designer profession and how it relates to HDK’s profile is also of significance. Considerable importance is attached to personal suitability.

The application shall be structured according to that stated in “Instructions for applicants for employment or promotion to senior lecturer or professor at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg” The template can be obtained at  http://konst.gu.se/english/

As an applicant, you are responsible for your application being complete in accordance with the vacancy announcement and application template and that it is submitted no later than the application deadline.


Additional information


The position is a temporary employment for five years with the possibility of extension and comprises 60% of full time. The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts applies probationary employment of six months.

Installation as soon as possible. Further information about the employment is provided by Human Resources Administrator Angelica Hörngren, e-mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Unit Manager Johnny Friberg, e-mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

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HENRIC BENESCH

Research Strategist / Head of subject : Design / Coordinator : Critical Heritage Studies
School of Design and Crafts / University of Gothenburg

+46730346460 / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

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