Our exhibition »Reconsider Design« will be shown at Science Park Borås in Sweden starting October 10. The exhibition showcases 30 outstanding examples for ecological design from the Baltic Sea region – from awareness and research projects to material studies to products from areas such as fashion or mobility.

From October 16 to November 4, the exhibition "New Conceptions" with the winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2017 will be presented at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig.

Program:

October 21, 4 pm:
Guided tour with Sabine Epple (curator GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts)

October 30, 6 pm:
Lecture "dispose – reuse – recycle. Strategies, difficulties and potentials for the development of sustainable products", Prof. Mareike Gast (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle)

Traditional crafts and a very unique design language characterize the work of Berlin fashion designer Buki Akomolafe. In her collections, androgynous, precise cuts meet eye-catching wax prints. Especially the elaborately quilted skirts and tops are remarkable and, like the basics, entirely produced in the designer’s studio and a small manufactory in Berlin. She works only with ecological materials, such as biologically grown cotton and hemp silk or West African wax print fabrics. Buki Akomolafe spent her early childhood in Nigeria with her father, who was managing an agricultural project. Saving resources is just as important to her as creating a new awareness of fashion and materials.

Opening:

October 31, 4:30pm
Talk and guided tour with the designer, participation with valid museum ticket for free.

Opening Times:

October 31 – November 21, 2018
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

From 9th to 18th November, stilwerk Düsseldorf will be focused on photographic art. After four successful editions of the Photo Popup Fair, top-class national and international photographers and artists will be shown again this year.

stilwerk.com

The competition for the UX Design Awards 2019 has already started!
Till 31 March, companies and agencies worldwide will have the opportunity to submit user-centric products, services and concepts. All nominees will be presented at an award exhibition at IFA, the global trade fair for consumer technologies in Berlin, from 6 - 11 September 2019.

All details: ux-design-awards.com

On November 15 the next wirDesign practical workshop "Corporate Design Management" will take place in Berlin. The one-day workshop is aimed at managers for brand and corporate design from management, marketing and communication in companies that carry out and implement corporate design projects. In individual and group work, current corporate design knowledge is imparted and effective instruments, methods and arguments for one's own work are presented.

wirdesign.de

It's time again: On 16th November media:net berlinbrandenburg and Investitionsbank Berlin invite you to the matchmaking format DWOMEN. This time as guest: Solveig Schulze. The founding member of Lufthansa Innovation Hub GmbH reports on how she wants to use technological innovations to make travel smoother.

medianet-bb.de

At the biggest European automation trade fair attoma shows from 27th to 29th November how they support the digital transformation through industrial design. Among other things, the top-class projects for large corporations such as Saint-Gobain, Thales, Schneider Electric, Enedis and ArcelorMittal will be presented.

attoma.eu

Good product design involves a great deal of work and requires plenty of experience and skills. The Design Intent experiences an evolutionary development and needs sufficient time to mature. This not necessarily linear process requires extensive analysis and ultimately also good feeling to make the right decisions at the right time.

WertelOberfell will be working on some experimental designs on site at KGM, and provide insights into their work processes. The focus will be on iterative artwork using 3D printers and CAD programs. In this way, visitors can observe how a design evolves from the first idea – the Design Intent – into its final version.

Opening:

November 28, 4:30pm
Talk and guided tour with the designers, participation with valid museum ticket for free.

Opening Times:

November 28, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

As part of the exhibition "Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design", the Vitra Design Museum and the Volkswagen Group invite you to an interdisciplinary panel discussion in Berlin:

More and more designers are taking on the responsibility associated with the realisation that design is an important tool for social, ecological and hence political change. They develop projects that focus on complex themes such as sustainability, identity, inclusion, our consumer behaviour and the effects of global digitisation. But while there is still some agreement on the formulation of goals - such as social justice or a clean environment - opinions differ as to why design has to face the big questions of our time, how these goals can be achieved, and what influence design can actually exert on them.

The panelists Axel Kufus, product designer and university professor, Henriette Ackermann, trend and material designer, and Amelie Klein, curator at the Vitra Design Museum, will discuss these questions.

Wednesday, 28 Nov 2018, 7pm
DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin
Friedrichstraße 84, 10117 Berlin
design-museum.de

Our exhibition »Reconsider Design« will be shown at Science Park Borås in Sweden starting October 10. The exhibition showcases 30 outstanding examples for ecological design from the Baltic Sea region – from awareness and research projects to material studies to products from areas such as fashion or mobility.

The competition for the UX Design Awards 2019 has already started!
Till 31 March, companies and agencies worldwide will have the opportunity to submit user-centric products, services and concepts. All nominees will be presented at an award exhibition at IFA, the global trade fair for consumer technologies in Berlin, from 6 - 11 September 2019.

All details: ux-design-awards.com

Good product design involves a great deal of work and requires plenty of experience and skills. The Design Intent experiences an evolutionary development and needs sufficient time to mature. This not necessarily linear process requires extensive analysis and ultimately also good feeling to make the right decisions at the right time.

WertelOberfell will be working on some experimental designs on site at KGM, and provide insights into their work processes. The focus will be on iterative artwork using 3D printers and CAD programs. In this way, visitors can observe how a design evolves from the first idea – the Design Intent – into its final version.

Opening:

November 28, 4:30pm
Talk and guided tour with the designers, participation with valid museum ticket for free.

Opening Times:

November 28, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

The experimental typography workshop p98a by Erik Spiekermann puts its letterpress printing machine into temporary use for the pre-Christmas period: under expert guidance, you can print your own Christmas postcards and posters using a newly built Bauhaus typeface. For the Joschmi font, designer Flavia Zimbardi restored and supplemented the creations of Bauhaus designer Joost Schmidt.

location
temporary bauhaus-archiv
Knesebeckstraße 1-2
Berlin-Charlottenburg

opening time
Moday - Saturday, 2pm - 5pm

bauhaus.de

From 6th to 9th December, the Arts & Craft Days will take place for the 22nd time in the Zeughaushof of the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Around 90 designers, artists and craftspeople present and sell usable art objects.

location
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Zeughaushof
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin-Mitte

opening hours
6th December: 3pm - 6pm
7th December: 10am - 6pm
8th December: 10am - 9pm
9th December: 10am - 6pm

entry
Armoury fair and museum: 8 €
reduced: 4 €
Teenagers up to 18 years free
Open evening on 8th Dec 6pm - 9pm, free admission

Our exhibition »Reconsider Design« will be shown at Science Park Borås in Sweden starting October 10. The exhibition showcases 30 outstanding examples for ecological design from the Baltic Sea region – from awareness and research projects to material studies to products from areas such as fashion or mobility.

The competition for the UX Design Awards 2019 has already started!
Till 31 March, companies and agencies worldwide will have the opportunity to submit user-centric products, services and concepts. All nominees will be presented at an award exhibition at IFA, the global trade fair for consumer technologies in Berlin, from 6 - 11 September 2019.

All details: ux-design-awards.com

Good product design involves a great deal of work and requires plenty of experience and skills. The Design Intent experiences an evolutionary development and needs sufficient time to mature. This not necessarily linear process requires extensive analysis and ultimately also good feeling to make the right decisions at the right time.

WertelOberfell will be working on some experimental designs on site at KGM, and provide insights into their work processes. The focus will be on iterative artwork using 3D printers and CAD programs. In this way, visitors can observe how a design evolves from the first idea – the Design Intent – into its final version.

Opening:

November 28, 4:30pm
Talk and guided tour with the designers, participation with valid museum ticket for free.

Opening Times:

November 28, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

The 100 Years of bauhaus opening festival from 16 to 24 January 2019 at the Berlin Academy of the Arts is the beginning of the nationwide celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus. It invites its visitors on a creative-experimental journey around the legendary Bauhaus stage.

Concerts, installations, puppet and spoken theatre, dance and film, workshops and lecture demonstrations, games and festivals: the programme offers numerous different formats for young and old.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will officially open the event on 16 January. It will take place in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
bauhausfestival.de

The German Federal Ecodesign Award is looking for products, services and concepts that are outstanding in their design, their ecological quality and their innovative approach.

Participants can submit their projects to this years' competition until April 8.

Further information: bundespreis-ecodesign.de

How is the presence of nature reflected in current Finnish design? What materials are used today, how do we deal with them and to what extent is sustainable thinking reflected in forms and innovations? On 17 January, Institute Director Dr. Laura Hirvi will be discussing this with VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Director Lilli Hollein, designer and curator Tero Kuitunen and designer and interior designer Ilkka Palinperä, who is responsible for the design concept for the new premises of the Finnish Institute.

The interview will take place in English.

location
Finnland-Institut in Deutschland
Friedrichstr. 153 a
10117 Berlin

start
7 pm

Registration until 7 January

With increasing digitalization, the demands on the way users interact with technical devices are increasing. If a user feels overwhelmed by complexity, or if a machine requires illogical action, this is a serious market disadvantage.

Industry representatives will learn why user-friendliness is a decisive success factor and how practical implementation can succeed by means of three practical examples for improved usability in production. UX experts and company representatives will present principles and best practices for user-friendly design.

Manuel Friedrich, Cluster Manager ICT, Media and Creative Industries, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH and Ake Rudolf, Strategic Director, International Design Centre Berlin


Case Studies
Principles, methods and benefits of User Experience & User Interface Design for Industry 4.0 (Kai Gehrmann, Managing Director and Dipl.-Designer, attoma Berlin GmbH)

Mastering complexity: An application for data preparation in additive manufacturing (Ariane Jäger, Senior UX Consultant, UseTree GmbH)

Machine Learning Algorithm for Voice Control in Industrial Production (Hans Ritschl and Jan Saputra Müller, Co-Founder of Askby.ai)

Details

A cooperation of the IDZ with Berlin Partner within the cluster ICT, Media, Creative Industries Berlin/Brandenburg.

On 24 January 2019, Rolf Mehnert from Fuenfwerken Design AG and UX expert Gunnar Krüger will present their experiences from their stay in Africa. Together with the Nairobi Design Institute they organized an interesting workshop in Africa. The topic: "Mobility in Nairobi".
The focus was on the question of how German automobile manufacturers could meet the complex mobility needs of the inhabitants of a city like Nairobi. At the same time, the joint sprint provided inspiring insights into similarities and differences in design attitudes and approaches from an African and European perspective. Design Thinking made in Africa and in Europe. The week was also intended as a kick-off for potential new students of the NDI to gain an overview of the changing role of design under the conditions of digitisation. The lecture will present the results and provide insights into Nairobi's up-and-coming design scene.

About the experts
Rolf Mehnert is an expert on trends and business design. After completing his training as a typesetter, he studied communication design and finally completed his master's degree in business design. As co-founder of Fuenfwerken Design AG, he gained experience in a wide variety of fields. His goal is to create sustainable success for companies with products, services and business designs that also enrich people and society.

Gunnar Krüger has been designing digital products and services since 1996. He currently works as a freelance consultant and UX expert on behalf of companies and agencies, including Fuenfwerken. He also works as a guest lecturer in Basel and Berlin. Together with Berlin and Swiss colleagues, he developed the "Interaction Design" course.


entry
Guests: 5 Euro
Admission is free for IDZ members.
Registration

time
Admission: 6:30 pm
Start: 7 pm

location
Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin
Am Park 4
10785 Berlin
Map

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