at the university of applied sciences regensburg on tuesday, june 17th, there was an opening for an industrial design exhibit called, “akkutools” (the power tool project). the work was generated last semester by the iD3 crew in conjunction with the department of architecture’s own jakob timpe and the bavarian manufacturer einhell in a semester long […]

june 2nd / 3rd / 4th 2014 the product design program from bauhaus university weimar and the university of applied sciences regensburg’s iD4 crew had a work in progress venue for their aboutForm & hard ware project . . .

immersion workshop week was held as a special, summer semester venue of the iD program at the university of applied sciences, regensburg. open to all students in the oth’s department of architecture, the immersion workshop week was an exchange of ideas connecting people in a moment of time to an exploration of vision, values, skills […]

right after the easter holiday last month, the iD4 crew from the oth: university of applied sciences went to weimar for a workshop with bauhaus university. the topic area was aboutForm & hard ware; new form development possibilities with porcelain as the main point of departure. the workshop took place the entire week of april […]

have you ever been frustrated when trying to describe an emotional response to an image &/or an object with words alone? to the contrary, have you ever tried to illuminate an intellectual construct without words; using “only” images so to speak? visualization is an acquired skill that connects critical thinking with imagination. objects are usually […]

here is a collage triptych of a new york state of mind, just in time for this year’s saint patrick day. even while visiting boston, massachusetts a lot of the thoughts in the conversations touched on new york city and brooklyn in particular. brooklyn is usually a good vantage point for a majestic view of […]

improved individual mobility in society
(mobilität dient der integration in die gesellschaft): this was the working title for our semester long product design3 project in conjunction with the machine design faculty. product design3 ran parallel to the human factors corequisite course offering this semester.
01a) group agilo’s process guide |
michael fischer • marion meindl • […]

in order to move toward the future, universities need to have a willingness to foster interdisciplinary education. interdisciplinary studies thrive on creative convergence. departments, instructors and their students also need to be able to blur traditional boundaries in the benefit of educational exploration. still in a formative stage, the ID curriculum at the OTH: university […]

full disclosure, bill cosby already posed this question in 1965 with his third record entitled with the same question. unlike other essential elements such as water or fire, air seems to be underrated. our relationship to air, in all its ramifications, might deserve more attention than is commonly considered. a good place to start would […]

in an urban environment, humanitarian values are characterized by people’s behavior within public spaces. a sense of life’s quality is reflected in society’s collective interactions within the public realm. changing perceptions of shared public space and enhancing the context of the quality of life can be achieved through the use of design.
in the spring of […]