Design Lessons mean modern-day education in creativity and imagination training. The offer is addressed to schools and covers several thematic areas: industrial design, architecture, ceramics and book illustration. The lessons are workshops complying with the core curriculum for general education at all levels: arts in primary education, grades 4 to 6, middle school, and knowledge of culture and history in secondary education. The Design Lessons are predominantly practical.

In the well-equipped studios of the Institute, schoolchildren create various utilitarian forms, getting to know techniques of design work, supervised by professional instructors.

Lesson subjects to choose from:

Grades 1 to 3 of primary school:

1. Handmade paper in practice
2. Print design
3. Natural patterns, or the world of plants and animals in design
4. Little architects. Building a city
5. Ceramics – design and product

Grades 4 to 6 of primary school:

1. Handmade paper in practice
2. Print design
3. Natural patterns, or the world of plants and animals in design
4. Meet the chair
5. Design recycling. The second life of objects
6. Polish design. Cult brands of the People’s Republic
7. Furniteque. Good design in every home
8. Little architects. Building a city
9. Ceramics – design and product

Middle and secondary school:

1. Handmade paper in practice
2. What’s a book made of? Bookbinding workshops
3. Polish design. Cult brands of the People’s Republic
4. Polish design. Contemporary brands and designers

Lessons conducted Monday–Friday 9 am–3 pm.
Duration: 2 class hours (90 minutes in total).
Maximum number of participants: 25.
All Institute lessons are free of charge.

Registration: Castle Hill Office, tel. (41)367 68 01
8 am–4 pm

Reservations of tours of temporary exhibitions and Institute studios possible by prior appointment. Duration of guided tours: approximately 45 minutes.