Organisation

Organisation and management

Design School Kolding is an independent institution with its own board of directors and a board of representatives made up of a number of designers and representatives from the industry. The programmes are under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education. Design School Kolding is headed by the Rector, who is employed by and refers to the school’s board of directors, who have overall responsibility for the school. The board of directors is made up of elected members of the board of representatives, all of whom have professional design or industrial experience. The management of the school is undertaken by the school’s heads of department – the Prorector, the Head of Administration, the Head of Education, the Head of Research – and the Rector. In the day-to-day management of Design School Kolding, the Rector is assisted by the management team/rectorate.

Contact

Board of Directors

The board of directors of Design School Kolding is made up of elected members of the school’s board of representatives.

External representatives    

  • Nanna Ulrich Gudum, Head of Design, LEGO Group (Chairperson)
  • Merete Due Paarup, City Council Member, Kolding Municipality (Vice Chairperson)
  • Hans Christian Asmussen, designer, Owner of NATiON.dk
  • Rune Kirt, CEO, Architect and co-founder, KIRT x THOMSEN
  • Michael Qvortrup Design Manager, Industrial Designerm Artlinco
  • Karsten Uno Petersen, Member of the Regional Council, Region Syddanmark (alternate member)

Internal representatives

  • Lene Tanggaard, Rector
  • Anne-Mette Hummel Holm, Director of Administration and Business Development, Prorector
  • Lone Dalsgaard André, Director of Facilities, Student Recruitment and Career Start, Prorector,
  • Eva Kappel, Director of Education
  • Lene Nyhus Friis, Project Director, Head of Lab for Play & Desing, Head of Lab for Social Design, Head of Lab for Sustainability and Design
  • Charlotte Melin, Head of Communications
  • August Severin Kjærholm Rizzi, DSR
  • Karina Sørensen, Employee Representative
  • Helle Graabæk, Emplyee Representative

 

Contact

Board of Directors, external representatives

The Board of Representatives

Design School Kolding’s board of representatives elects the school’s board of directors and constitutes a forum for contact and debate in support of the school’s development. The board of representatives is comprised of members appointed from various professional fields of practice and institutions.

Appointed by Design Denmark

  • Carsten Nguyen Henriksen, Creative & Managing Director, Designit
  • Rune Kirt, Architect and Partner, Kirt Thomsen (member of board)
  • Christina Halskov, Partner, Halskov Design Studio

Appointed by the Danish Arts and Crafts Association

  • Hans Christian Asmussen, Owner, NATiON.dk (member of the board)
  • Lene Thomassen, Textile Designer, Owner, Tekstilwerk

Appointed by the Region of Southern Denmark

  • Karsten Uno Petersen, Member of the Regional Council (substitute member of the board)

Appointed by Kolding Municipality

  • Merete Due Paarup, Member of the City Council, Kolding Municipality (Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Board of Representatives)

Appointed by the Danish Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

  • Bo Ulsøe, CEO, Blunico A/S

Appointed by the Confederation of Danish Industry

  • Lise Thomsen, Head of Subject, DI Kreative Erhverv
  • Morten Bach Jensen, Group Vice President, Grundfos Holding A/S
  • Michael Qvortup, Design Manager, Industrial Designer, Artlinco
  • Kresten Krab-Bjerre, Creative Director, Staged and Flexible Living, Bang & Olufsen a/s 

Appointed by the Danish Academic Architects’ Association 

  • Anne Qvist, Architect MAA and Industrial Designer, Anne Qvist Design Office

Appointed by Dansk Fashion & Textiles

  • Morten Dybro, Head of Sales and Development, Dansih Fashion & Textiles

 Appointed by the IT Industry

  • Sara Marie Alvad, Kreativ direktør, Knowit Experience

Appointed by the Danish Chamber of Commerce

  •  Jakob Møller Hansen, Udviklingschef, Ecco

Appointed by the Organisation Danish Museums

  • Berit Anne Larsen, Head of Communication, National Gallery of Denmark

Appointed by the Danish Entrepreneurs' Association

  • Frederikke Antonie Schmidt, Founder and Creative Director, roccamore

Appointed by the Danish Producers' Association

  • Ida Hartman, Lead Writer & Narrative Designer, Triple Topping

Udpeget af Dansk Erhverv

  • Farid Fellah, Adm. direktør, Rosan Bosch Studio

External representatives appointed by the Board of Directors

  • Morten Albæk (Chairman of the Board and The Board of Representatives)

Core values

Values: Social inclusion, sustainability, cultural diversity.

Vision: Design School Kolding wants to be one of Denmark's and the world's leading design universities. We want to make an impact on the world. And we insist on the power of the hand, the mind and the heart.

Goal: Design School Kolding is a self-governing institution of further learning under the auspices of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. It educates designers at Bachelor, Master’s and PhD levels based on the triple knowledge base: Research, artistic development work and practice. The Bachelor course is in Danish, the Master’s course is in English.

Mission: Designers from Design School Kolding should

  • use design to develop products, systems and organisations, which promote sustainable ecology.   
  • contribute with a deep and trained sense of and knowledge about aesthetics, function and users together with other subjects and professions.
  • create connections by listening to others and by processing materials with your hands, mind and heart. 
  • work in cross-disciplinary teams on challenging and solving large societal problems and issues of our time, such as climate change, lack of welfare and social inequality. 
  • engage and use the tools of the design process in research collaborations and research networks nationally and internationally 

Strategic focus areas: Sustainability, welfare, play.

Strategy

Design School Kolding's strategic framework agreement with the Ministry serves as our strategy.

Design research
In 2010, Design School Kolding was granted the status of research-based education, and has a research and educational structure following the principles of the Bologna Declaration. The development of the programme and the construction of a design research environment are key tasks for the school in the coming years, as society and industry are making ever greater demands on the designers being trained. Designers must be able to understand and engage in increasingly complex contexts both societally and production-wise.

Cooperation with industry
Cooperation with Danish and foreign industry is a cornerstone of Design School Kolding’s strategy. The school is committed to continuously building and maintaining good relations with industry. Representatives of the Confederation of Danish Industries and the design industry sit on the school’s board of representatives and board of directors, and thus directly participate in discussions regarding the aims and content of the programme. The school works continuously to develop its close cooperation relations with industry. The school’s increased efforts with regard to major development projects, business partnerships and internships have raised far greater awareness of the innovative potential of the programme internally and externally, and a much broader employment perspective.

International collaborations
Internationally, Design School Kolding is assuming a leading position. The school is part of the well-run cooperation network in the Nordic countries and the EU, and also has cooperation agreements with various design schools outside the EU. To ensure that Design School Kolding continues to develop, and can measure up to the best, it is a strategic area for the school to continuously nurture and develop international contacts, networks and partnerships, and benchmark the school’s programmes with some of the world’s best design schools.

Danish design and Danish design education continue to enjoy a high level of international recognition – something a representative of the design education meets in the programme’s EU network as well as in the design community in Europe and China. In an increasingly tough global competition, design and innovation are key competitive parameters in Denmark today and in the future, which naturally places focus on improving the quality of the design education.

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