gestalten lehren – auf der kippe ?
the institute for art education at the university of regensburg
paraphrasing rather that translating the german title (for the venue held this week by institute for art education in conjunction with other partners*) could be close to “art and design education at the tipping point”
or “art & […]

dodecahedron
an excerpt from the above link:
the dodecahedron has been a source of metaphysical interest for at least two thousand years. like a crystal or gem, its facets and symmetries compel our eyes
& hearts to observe life more deeply. some have believed that the dodecahedron represents an idealized form of divine thought, will, or […]

aboutForm & – porcelain / function / meaning
bauhaus university weimar: summaery 2014
here are a few examples of the student’s process guides:
group 12: | knufmann, pauthner, siemens & turinsky |
group 11: | brunner, groß, hanke & kainz |
group 10: | baum, martens, pielmeier & vander bee |
group 09: | […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]