HDK-Valand

School of Design and Crafts
Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk
Other name	HDK
Former name	Slöjdföreningens skola, Konstindustriskolan, Högskolan för Design
Type	Design school
Established	1848; 177 years ago
Parent institution	University of Gothenburg
Location	Gothenburg, Sweden
Website	www.hdk.gu.se

HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design (Swedish: HDK-Valand – Högskolan för konst och design) is a school for film, photography, literary composition, and fine art at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its precursors trace back to 1848 and 1865, and in this sense is older than the University of Gothenburg (founded 1891).

History

School of Design and Crafts

The School of Design and Crafts (Swedish: Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk, abbreviated HDK)^[1] at the University of Gothenburg was a design school in the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts. It was started in 1848 with the name Slöjdföreningens skola.^[2]

The main building is on Kristinelundsgatan in Gothenburg. The school also contained HDK Steneby in Dals Långed.^[3]

Gothenburg Drawing School

The art school Valand was for many years situated in the Valand house, as seen on this image, and which gave the school its name. Today The Valand School of Fine Art is situated across this building, on the other side of Vasagatan.

The Valand School of Fine Art was founded as the Gothenburg Drawing School (Swedish: Göteborgs Musei Ritskola) in 1865 and has been part of the University of Gothenburg since 1977. The school is situated in central Gothenburg, currently across Vasagatan from the original building. Valand was the name of the construction company formed in order to build the original building which is now occupied by a nightclub of the same name, as well as a fraternal order.

Valand Academy

In 2012, Valand Academy was formed through a merge of the Valand School of Fine Art and three other formerly independent institutions at the University of Gothenburg: the School of Film Directing, the School of Photography and the Department of Literary Composition.

HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design

In 2020, Valand Academy merged with another school within the same faculty, the School of Design and Crafts / HDK (in Swedish, Högskolan för Design och Konsthandverk). The merged school is now called HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design.^[4]

Notable alumni

For the School of Design and Crafts

Notable professors

References

^ Brunnström, Lasse (2018-10-18). Swedish Design: A History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-350-00014-8 – via Google Books.
^ "The History of HDK". Archived from the original on 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2014-12-09.
^ "HDK: About Us". Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-12-09.
^ "About us | University of Gothenburg". 12 June 2024.
^ "Ruben Östlund: 'All my films are about people trying to avoid losing face'". TheGuardian.com. 11 March 2018.

External links

Official website

[1] Brunnström, Lasse (2018-10-18). Swedish Design: A History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-350-00014-8 – via Google Books.

[2] "The History of HDK". Archived from the original on 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2014-12-09.

[3] "HDK: About Us". Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-12-09.

[4] "About us | University of Gothenburg". 12 June 2024.

[5] "Ruben Östlund: 'All my films are about people trying to avoid losing face'". TheGuardian.com. 11 March 2018.

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