Posts in the category education

aboutForm & hard ware workshop . . .

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 . . .

posted 16 June 2014

categories education

immersion workshop week, 2014 . . .

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 […]

posted 15 June 2014

categories design, education

aboutForm & workshop with bauhaus university . . .

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 […]

posted 1 May 2014

categories design, education

aboutForm & alphabet abstractions . . .

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 […]

posted 17 April 2014

categories education

design, society & individual mobility . . .

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 • […]

posted 14 February 2014

categories education

interdisciplinary design education . . .

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 […]

posted 24 January 2014

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design, society & the public realm . . .

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 […]

posted 11 December 2013

categories design, education

walk on the wild side: strollology . . .

lou reed’s walk on the wild side, 1973 . . .
lou reed’s website . . .
2G13: the 20th anniversary of the faculty of art & design, weimar
twenty years ago, the late swiss sociologist, theorist and urbanist lucius burckhardt, was the founding dean of the then new department of art & design […]

posted 23 November 2013

categories education

iD curriculum development . . .

this week, the first tangible indication was given to the possibility of a dialogue / development of a curriculum for a master of industrial design degree offering at the oth (ostbayerische technische hochschuleregensburg). during the department of architecture’s regularly scheduled faculty meeting, a proposal was put forth by iD professors and co-founders, matthew burger and […]

posted 12 October 2013

categories education

the importance of coffee (drinking rituals) & beth fuller’s • michael weaker’s nespresso concepts

the importance of coffee: beth fuller’s & michael weaker’s nespresso coffee concepts, which are at the end of all the other images and worth seeing . . .
the milk brother, from po-chih lai
the milk brother • moka milk frother is inherited from the moka pot, also known as a macchinetta (literally “small […]

posted 27 September 2013

categories design, education