Hochschule Luzern (HSLU)
Emmenbrücke
Lecturer for Process Design with Module Responsibility 35% – 45%
- 21 July 2026
- 35 – 45%
- Permanent position
- Emmenbrücke
Job summary
Join the Hochschule Luzern's vibrant design team! Shape the future of design education.
Tasks
- Lead interdisciplinary design practice and teaching experiences.
- Develop innovative design concepts integrating technology and sustainability.
- Mentor students in their creative and technical processes.
Skills
- Master's in Design with professional experience and teaching background.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills essential.
- Proficient in digital design tools and sustainable practices.
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About the job
Your Tasks
We are looking for a personality with an independent design practice as well as teaching experience in process design at the interface of object, space, human and environment. In your practice, you combine design, technical and social issues into sustainable and innovative design concepts. You work interdisciplinarily, in various media and combine digital and AI-supported design processes with traditional manufacturing and material techniques.
As a lecturer
- Development and implementation of teaching formats to convey conceptual, methodological as well as technical fundamentals of design processes including digital technologies/AI and craft techniques (including co-teaching).
- Didactically sound support of individual work processes, from research through concept development to presentation.
- Supporting students in developing a design position and language.
- Promoting a professionally informed, sustainable and experimental design practice and a responsible approach to materials and resources.
- Supervision and mentoring of students in the portfolio process.
As module coordinator
- Overall responsibility for the content, organisational and personnel planning, implementation and further development of the module according to specifications.
- Lateral leadership of lecturers and teaching staff involved in the module; in particular ensuring communication, promoting collaboration and coordinating work assignments. Recruitment of teaching staff in consultation with the preparatory course management.
- Planning and allocation of resources and materials within the module.
- Ensuring the didactic quality and currency of the teaching.
- Quality assurance and qualitative further development of the module, including feedback to lecturers.
- Participation in the professional, organisational and personnel development of the preparatory design course.
- Representation of the process design subject area in the core team and within the Department of Design Film Art.
- Active participation in exchange, planning, evaluation and development bodies and involvement in strategic issues.
Your Profile
- You have a completed university degree (Master or Diploma) in design.
- You have an independent design practice with professional experience. You know the Swiss design scene, are visible in it and well networked.
- You have teaching experience at a university or a preparatory design course. A certificate in higher education didactics can be obtained as part of the employment.
- You have strong methodological skills and are familiar with current concepts of spatial and material-based design processes.
- You are proficient in handling digital design and visualisation tools (e.g. Onshape, SolidWorks, Rhino, KeyShot, Figma, Adobe CC) as well as current AI applications.
- You have experience in construction, prototyping and workshop processes with various materials. You master freehand as well as technical drawing.
- You are a communicative and reliable personality with strong cooperation and social skills.
- You think and work interdisciplinarily and enjoy team-oriented collaboration.
- You have organisational skills and experience in independently planning and implementing projects and teaching units.
- You have very good German language skills.
Our Offer
- The opportunity to bring an independent practice into teaching and to help shape the development of the preparatory design course.
- An open, experimental environment at an innovative university of design, film and art.
- Modern and contemporary infrastructure with excellent analogue and digital workshops and spacious studios.
- Opportunities for professional and didactic development.
- The workplace is the Viscosistadt Campus, Lucerne-Emmenbrücke.
Professional Enquiries
Thomas Aregger
Co-Head Preparatory Course
thomas.aregger@hslu.ch
As the largest educational institution of the six Central Swiss cantons, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is at the cutting edge with its offerings. Forward-looking and innovative, nationally and internationally, we impart knowledge. Join us and become part of our shared, sustainable future.