Artistic and academic freedom, openness and experimentation permeate all education and research at the Royal Institute of Art (KKH). Through art and architecture, the institute is a public actor that interacts with and influences a changing society.
Overall objectives:
- By focusing on student-centered learning, KKH nurtures and develops artistic processes, workshop-based practices and critical thinking.
- Through methodologies within artistic and architectural practices and discourses, KKH strengthens its education and research, thus linking past and present, theory and practice, in innovative forms of expression and ideas.
- Artistic, practice-based research in art and architecture is an integral and visible part of the education. On this basis, KKH is strengthening its research environments.
- KKH maintains and renews its historical role as an active and engaged player in culture and in Swedish society through national and international collaborations.
- KKH contributes to sustainability in society by developing processes in education, research and administration, for responsible behaviour in relation to resource use.
- By creating an environment that allows for diversity and inclusion, KKH promotes responsible operations for students, staff and the school’s collaborative partners.
The Royal Institute of Art Strategy
In the spring of 2018, the Royal Institute of Art began to formulate a new vision statement for 2019–2025. This undertaking took the form of a series of workshops in which students, staff and management conjointly set goals for the school from artistic, didactic and organizational perspectives.
Graphic design and communications
Guidelines for the Royal Institute of Art’s graphic design are set out in the publication Between Letters Patent and Brand Manual. The publication is primarily aimed at those who work with the university’s graphic design and communication, but also at those who have other relations to the field and are interested in how artistic universities communicate with the wider world.