Posts in the category education

an interaction of color & geometry . . .

the bavarian state government officially opened a 20th-century state museum in nuremberg on on april 15, 2000. the new museum, was design by berlin-based architect volker staab. today, the iD1 cew visited the current exhibit of amish quilts and american artist james turrell’s installations and graphic art. here are just a few visual impressions from […]

posted 14 October 2014

categories design, education

will design for food . . .

people who love to eat are always the best people . . .
julia child
will design for food: a workshop linking food to your design metabolism . . .
the work method for this venue was a combination of an iterative, trial / error and prototyping process toward the culmination of a final design […]

posted 24 August 2014

categories education

the power tool project . . .

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 […]

posted 21 June 2014

categories 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

categories education