The question of what social, cultural, architectonic, urban spaces we wish to live in – but above all, how we want to live in them, is discussed in diverse and undogmatic ways in the various departments of the study programme.

The Design degree programme is divided into the two fields of study Product Design and Fashion Design. These are organised in the independent institutes for Product and Process Design (IPP) and for Clothing and Textile Design (IBT).

The study program Art and Media is the only course at the UdK Berlin offering networked artistic teaching in the time-based media. Teachers of various subjects collaborate to offer this special study program, the focus being on interplay between artistic experiment and technical media.

In the course of study Visual Communication students deal with the planning, realisation and mediation of visual information in two or three dimensions.