In a holistic design and teaching approach I combine head & hand as well as heart & mind. I don't want to limit the students to pure objectivity or methodical tricks, but in exploiting the full potential of their human and creative intuition. The interlocking of disciplines such as design, art, technology and science is very important to me, because this is where the innovative potential of creative work lies for us. I regard designers as catalysts of change. They reflect social, ecological, technological and economic developments and provide innovative, multidisciplinary solutions to complex problems.
Winter 2021 / 2022, semester project for BA students
HBKsaar
The course participants developed material, process and product demonstrators based on regionally available raw materials and used them to show potential for circular applications in design and architecture. Through the concrete confrontation with and use of one's own environment as well as locally available resources and technologies, design becomes immediate and the effects of design become just as immediately visible and tangible.Through the critical examination of relevant positions on the topic of material design and research, as well as sustainable principles such as consistency, resistance, sufficiency and efficiency, a holistic and experimental design work was focused on.In the individual designs, research-based design processes, concept developments for open-ended material-product demonstrators and their systematic transfer into application scenarios and product designs are tested.
Free project by Beatrice Oria Lombardia
Winter 2020 / 2021, semester project for BA and MA students
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Due to pandemic-related hygiene measures, analogue teaching and work in the workshops was impossible in the winter semester 2020 / 21. The task was to design and prototype a site-specific outdoor installation that uses elementary forces of nature. Instead of working on the computer, there was intensive field research, a video workshop and experiments in nature. Earth, Wind and Fire thematises the linking of science, art and design and makes it very concrete!
The aim was to strengthen the perception of the incredible power of nature, to make the impact of one's own design decisions directly tangible, to build on this with an experimental practice and to show the potential of this attitude. In a tense situation that was extremely challenging for students and teachers, we created an exercise environment that, on the one hand, met pandemic-related hygiene measures and, on the other hand, motivated the students and allowed them to become active.
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Winter 2020 / 2021, 1st semester project
in cooperation with Sarah Böttger
In "Kurzschluss," students are confronted with new tasks and free project work every two weeks. The works created during this time testify to an intensive, diverse and exciting first semester. Due to pandemic conditions Sarah Böttger and me developed the format MAKE IT, in close collaboration with the workshop leaders, a combination of workshop introduction and design exercises. The workshop leaders supervised the students on site, the design processes were digitally accompanied by Sarah Böttger and me. The interplay of belly - hand - head - computer is a basic principle in PD studies at BUW and is tried out and lived in the Kurzschluss and especially in the workshop weeks.
IMAGE ABOVE Terna Expo Frames by Caroline Nüesch, Leon Peter Purtscher, Linus Enzmann, Matthias Schüller, Anna Viktorija Babić
Winter 2019 / 2020, 3rd - 8th semester project
artistic assistant: Susann Paduch (Design M.A.)
Partner:
Becker Brakel
Filzfabrik Fulda
As a project module, the Fibre Forms course dealt with design, technical, organisational and critical-analytical procedures in an action-oriented work and innovation context. It was about experimenting with the non-woven material and developing products in potentially new areas of application. Accompanying the product design, the material and process were critically scrutinised, challenges on topics such as circular design, as well as the connections between modularity and sustainability were discussed and methodically reviewed in expert interviews and workshop formats.
summer 2020 & 2021, 2nd semester project
artistic assistant: Susann Paduch (Design M.A.)
The students in the second semester of product design have developed new perspectives for working at home and have created designs beyond the classic object and furniture categories for the home office context. The second semester is the introduction to project studies, with important basics on the design process, professional worlds, tools and methods being taught.
The biggest challenge in the digital semesters was to compensate for the lack of interpersonal encounters, the lack of workshops and the associated experience with materials and technology. With intensive methodical exercises, family or self-initiated, temporary workshops, blender rendering, rhetoric and video workshop, a clear structure, differentiated group and communication formats, we succeeded in creating a dynamic semester.
Students design hybrid textiles in a multi-stage process that combines traditional textile techniques with laser cutting and 3D printing. The design experiment is the central design method.
