Political populism, a resistance to facts and scenes of dystopian chaos – three negative forces that have characterised the mass media over the past year. Despite this, there is a powerful, positive energy among our students as they attack their subjects with humour, warmth and en enthusiasm for experiment.

Visitors at the Spring Exhibition are invited into the students’ working processes, both theoretical and practical. We can, for example, learn to decode the seductive language of advertising or experience mental illness from the inside. We can also participate in practical form experiments, creative methods for disarming performance anxiety, unfettered flights of imagination and speculative futures. And, of course, stories that grip our hearts.

After 10 weeks of hard work, this year’s graduates deliver a broad spectrum of visual communication that offers a fine representation of the study programme’s expanding field; form VR and AR, visual essays and audio works to studies and experiments in analogue graphic techniques. Even more traditional forms – such as animated films, picture books and designed publications – with both personal and political themes have been explored from new points of departure.

That these creatives carry their dedication and open mindedness with them into their professional lives offers hope of a future in which the citizen is no longer a passive victim of media manipulation, but rather an active and aware co-creator. That is a fine feeling.

Sara Kaaman
Senior Lecturer

Bitte Andersson
Guest Lecturer