Ursula Bachman

Ursula Bachman is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Design & Art, where she has been affiliated since 1995. She served as Professor until 2011, then as Vice Director for Interdisciplinarity & Public Relations until 2020. Her external roles include Vice President of the Swiss-Arab Cultural Center (2000-2010), member of the Swiss UNESCO Commission (2004-2010), and board member of Fumetto (2015).

Her educational background includes a teaching diploma from the Lucerne School of Art and Design and a Master of Arts in Fine Arts from Birmingham University, UK.

Bachman's artistic practice spans drawing, installation, and animation, with expertise in Middle Eastern cultural contexts developed through residencies in New York and Cairo. Her intercultural teaching modules and public art projects—including installations at the Lucerne State Archives and Zofingen Train Station Square—demonstrate her integration of artistic practice with community engagement and cross-cultural dialogue.

Her publications reveal consistent themes in design history and cross-cultural visual interpretation, from the 2017 "Pattern Book" documenting 140 years of Swiss design to her 2014 analysis of line perception across Egyptian and artistic contexts, highlighting interdisciplinary connections between art, sociology, and urban studies.