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Professor (Salary Group W3)
Product Design
specializing in Product Planning

Responsibilities:
You will be teaching techniques of product planning based on scientific principles and professional experience to be applied in product planning processes, and sustainable economic aspects of the planning, development, production, and use of both consumer and capital goods. You will lecture, hold seminars, and tutor design and planning projects in the MA and BA courses concerned with topical and expected future questions of the theory and practice of product planning and product design, such as globalization, occupational health, or sustainability. Your teaching will be spread over 18 contact hours per week and you will be expected to contribute to the development of the product design courses through teaching and research, especially to strengthen their links to other areas like corporate communication, market research, technologies, marketing, and distribution. You will be expected to participate in the University"s self-management commissions. Further general responsibilities within the university are detailed in §46 of the LHG (State University Regulations).

Profile:
We are seeking a scientist well-versed in product planning who will be enthusiastic and capable of taking the initiative in cooperating and maintaining an interdisciplinary dialogue with other educational institutions, (institutes, colleges, or universities) and companies on applications-oriented research projects.
We expect the successful candidate to take an active part in the development of the MA programme in Product Planning and Design and lead the establishment of a suitable research laboratory at the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Requirements:
You should have a university degree, preferably in the area of design, and to demonstrate aptitude for scientific work (generally through a PhD) and be able to demonstrate excellent professional work in product planning and product design, educational aptitude, the ability to motivate students successfully, encourage their development, and to transfer professional knowledge convincingly. A minimum of five years" successful professional experience is required, at least three outside the university field. You should have international teaching experience at University level and be willing to teach in both English and German.

The first appointment to the position of Professor is limited initially. Upon fulfilment of the legal civil service requirements, successful candidates will attain tenure, as a rule after a probationary period of 3 years. The University wishes especially to encourage qualified women to apply. Disabled applicants with appropriate qualifications and aptitudes will be given preferential consideration. Please apply with the usual documents and examples of work by 31.07.2010 to: The Rector, Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Marie-Curie-Str. 19,
D-73529 Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. For consideration, applications must be sent by post - no e-mail applications will be accepted - and must be complete and comprehensively informative.



Professor (Salary Group W2)
Typography (Basic Design)

Job Description:
Instruction in concepts and methods of typography in theory and praxis. Candidates must be able to teach courses in application-oriented areas of information design, with a special focus on transmedial solutions. In addition, the candidate should be able to teach principles of design courses including the structuring and hierarchisation of information in the context of convergent media. Research focuses should include spatial communication systems, interactive and transmedial communication systems, and control and orientation systems.

The position on offer focuses on principles of design and on their application to the projects within our BA and MA programmes. Candidates are expected to present a detailed didactic concept regarding the methodological instruction of typographic basics in theory and praxis.

Qualification:
Earned degree in higher education, excellent achievements in the field as well as pedagogical abilities. Candidates are expected to have at least five years of on-the-job experience, of which at least three years were outside the field of the university system.

In the case of first appointments, the duration of the contract will be initially limited. If the candiate's aptitude for the requirements of civil servants have been confirmed (generally after a period of three years) tenure-track equivalent status will be granted. The HfG is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications of members of traditionally underrepresented groups.

The university will only consider complete and meaningful postal applications, emails will not be considered.

Applications with the usual documents and work samples can be submitted until July 16th 2010 to the following address:

Hochschule für Gestaltung
Die Rektorin
Marie-Curie-Straße 19
73529 Schwäbisch Gmünd