Konstfack
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Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (in Swedish simply known as Konstfack) is a university college for higher education in the area of crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden.
Konstfack was founded in 1844 by the ethnologist and artist Nils Månsson Mandelgren as a part time art school for artisans, under the name "Söndags-Rit-skola för Handtverkare" ("Sunday Drawing School for Artisans"). The school was taken over by Svenska Slöjdföreningen the next year and renamed Svenska Slöjdföreningens skola. It became a state school and was renamed Slöjdskolan i Stockholm in 1859, and in the context of a thorough reorganisation in 1879 to Tekniska skolan. From 1945 it was known as Konstfackskolan and from 1993 Konstfack, the short form of the name formerly used colloquially. It was given the status of a högskola ("university college") in 1978.
Long located on Norrmalm, between Klara kyrka and Hötorget, the school was in 1959 moved to a new building on Valhallavägen, on Östermalm, and in 2004 to the early modernist former telephone factory of L M Ericsson at Telefonplan in Hägersten on the southern outskirts of Stockholm.
The school is divided into following departments:
- Industrial Design
- Graphic Design and Illustration
- Arts
- Pottery and glass
- Textile design
- Metal design
- Interior Design and Furniture Design
- Art pedagogics
- Animation (located in Eksjö)
[edit] External links
- Konstfack, official website
