Umeå Institute of Design, Design school at Umeå Arts Campus, Sweden.
Umeå Institute of Design is a design school in Umeå, Sweden, offering bachelor and master programs in industrial design, transportation design, and interaction design. The school has workshops and technical spaces where students work hands-on with materials and prototypes.
The school was founded in 1989 and built an international reputation in design education over the following years. That reputation helped it attract students and faculty from around the world.
The school's name in Swedish, Designhögskolan i Umeå, is used locally alongside UID. The 2015 SVT documentary All The World in a Design School by Mattias Löw follows a group of international industrial design students through a study year, showing how critiques and studio work unfold in English.
The school sits on the Umeå University campus, which is easy to walk around and has public transport nearby. Visiting during student exhibitions or open presentations, which happen at various points in the year, gives a clearer sense of the work produced there.
The school began in 1989 with twelve students and three staff in a renovated electrical substation built in 1926 for Umeå's wood-pulp mill. The lower main building, finished in 1992, was designed by architect Olle Qvarnström and joined to the substation; since 2012 a restaurant at split-level connects it to the rest of the Arts Campus.
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