May 2023

12/17/2022–5/14/2023

Broken Music Vol.2
The inspiration of our Member of the month March 2023: Anja Muschiol. The exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin deals with the vinyl record as a medium of art over the last seven decades.

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The inspiration of our Member of the month March 2023: Anja Muschiol
On the basis of 700 recordings, the exhibition illuminates the development of the record as a medium for art from the post-war period to the present day. The panorama is expanded by sound works from the National Gallery's extensive collection, including room-filling sound installations and immersive media works. The exhibition is intended as a tribute to artists and vinyl enthusiasts, but also as documentation of the renewed attention paid to the record as a niche product and collector's item.

2/9–7/16/2023

„JR. Déplacé∙e∙s”.
The inspiration of our Member of the month April 2023: Ralf Huss. The french artist JR exhibits his projects that combine photography, public art and social commitment in the Gallerie d´Italia in Turin.

Details

The inspiration of our Member of the month April 2023 Ralf Huss.
After the exhibition stage in Munich in January, the works of the French artist JR can be seen at the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin until 16th July. At the centre of his artistic activity are larger-than-life art interventions in public space that deal with the problems of migrants and refugees. The size makes the artworks interactive, while thematically raising questions about social fragility. JR's art is created with people for people, emphasises individual as well as societal roles, and ultimately seeks to answer the question of whether art can change the world.

3/1–6/2/2023
IDZ Event

#UXDA23: Open for Submissions!
Make it count! The UX Design Awards 2023 - Autumn call for participation is open for submissions. Enter your best work by 2 June!

Details

Details on how to enter and the competition dates are available on the Awards Website.

3/26–6/16/2023
Member of IDZ

Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces.
IDZ member Silke Ihden-Rothkirch is co-curator of the international cooperative exhibition project "Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces". The exhibition can be seen at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts.

Details

The exhibition promises a juxtaposition of different design positions from numerous post-socialist countries. Both realised and visionary designs, dedicated to private and public space, offer new and surprising insights and might contribute to an overdue reassessment of global design history.
The exhibition focuses on the boom of future orientation between the 1950s and 1980s. Thanks to technological progress, the future was suddenly calculable through systematised innovations.
All according to the associated narrative in post-war modernism, which is still valid today: technological progress promotes social prosperity promotes happiness for all.

In addition to futuristic interiors for hotels, airports or one's own home, the exhibition also shows examples of visual communication for sports competitions and festivals in urban spaces, as well as reconstructions of visionary architecture and cybernetic living spaces.

During the event period until the 16th July, a curator's guided tour will be offered every second Thursday.

Tickets cost €8, or €4 for discounted tickets.

More Information on the museums website.

3/31–10/15/2023
4/1–6/30/2023
Member of IDZ

Bauhaus Archiv
Unpacking Jak R. Maier. inherited and unpacked - the value of things

Details

The temporary bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung presents the story of a surprising heritage and the first exhibition on the life and work of the Berlin artist Jak R. Maier, who passed away in 2010. Interactive and multimedia elements provide a glimpse behind the museum's exhibition curation and administration of estate. In addition a series of events will be offered. The event on the 26th April, for example, will focus on the scope of the inheritance.

Admission is free for both the exhibition and the series of events.
However, prior registration is requested for the event.
Further information can be found on the website.

Wednesday, 5/3/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards: Deep Dive Award Winners | Deccan International
In this Deep Dive Bhakti Dudhara, Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Aubergine Solutions, will walk us through the award-winning project „ASENT - Adaptive Scheduling for Patient Transport center“.

Details

Patients with special needs seek assistance when they need to travel for their essential medical appointments. NEMT (Non-Emergency Medical Transport) is a healthcare service provided by the Government or Private Agencies across the world. ASENT (Adaptive Scheduling for Efficient Non-emergency Transport) helps with centralized scheduling of vehicles with special equipment such as wheelchairs, stretchers, walkers and more, resulting in efficiency, cost savings and compliance. A recording of the talk is available on the UX Design Awards Youtube Channel.

5/5–17/2023

German Ecodesign Award | Touring Exhibition in Innsbruck
The touring exhibition will remain in Austria for the time being: The second stop is the Circular Design Week Tirol in Innsbruck.

Details

For the third year in a row, the touring exhibition is a guest at the Circular Design Week Tirol. From May 5 to 17, the exhibition offers an ideal environment for workshops, impulse talks and info events on the topic of circular economy. This year's location Die Bäckerei — Kulturbackstube is within walking distance of the Tyrolean sustainability trade fair ÖKO FAIR, which is taking place at the same time.

5/8–17/2023

Berlin Design Week 2023

Details

This year's Berlin Design Week is approaching. For the sixth edition of the festival, which will take place from 8 to 17 May, a large number of important representatives of the Berlin and international design scene will once again come together. Following the theme of Resilience, the festival once again focuses on design as an impulse for future-oriented change and the basis for creative futurability. The new exhibition and talk format "Design & Science" is intended to further enrich the important discourse between design, science and business.

Wednesday, 5/10/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Conversations: Shruti Ramiah
In this episode of UX Conversations, Shruti Ramiah (Head of Design at Zalando) reveals how design research can inform both our daily actions and our thinking about the future, and shares her views on what makes a clear moral compass for designers.

Details

A recording of the talk is available on the UX Design Awards Youtube Channel.

Thursday, 5/11/2023
7.00 pm–10.00 pm
IDZ Event

IDZ Meetup during Berlin Design Week
The IDZ Berlin cordially invites you to a get-together during the Berlin Design Week 2023. We are looking forward to welcoming our members as well as guests from Germany and abroad. Among others, Adi Ticho and Nivi Lehavi from Unveil will present their AR platform. Their platform enables artists to show their work in public space. Maybe we will let pigeons fly together? In any case, we can take the opportunity to celebrate a bit the always inspiring shoulder-to-shoulder of design, art and technology....

Details

Unveil Founders:
Adi Ticho & Nivi Lehavi

With a background in design, Adi and Nivi are excited to find the intersection between creativity and technology while working with technology as a creative tool, and using creative thinking to challenge technology.

The two met while studying for a master's degree in Social Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and began working together, now based in Tel Aviv.

Unveil is a platform that presents digital art around the city using augmented reality technology. AR makes it possible to place art anywhere, easily, and create a new experience of art, and of discovering places and stories in the city.
The platform enables AR technology to be a new creative medium.

Unveil webpage

Tuesday, 5/16/2023
2.00 pm
Member of IDZ

UID Webinars - Trends UX Design
The new series of Webinars by UID launches its first edition with the title "Benefits of UX".

Details

In the first edition of 5 planned Webinars Franz Koller of VDMA presents basics and Best Practices of UX Design. Further, there will be advice on implementing good User Experience in your own Products. Prior registration is required. You can register for the event here.

Tuesday, 5/23/2023
2.00 pm
Member of IDZ

UID Webinars - Trends UX Design
In the second edition of the series of Webinars by UID the talk will revolve around Embedding Design Systems in your company.

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A good design system is actively used and developed. This is the only way to ensure that it contributes optimally to the consistent design of products in the company and provides a guiding theme. Already the first step, the introduction and establishment of such a design system, is often a great challenge. In this webinar, Carina Völpel and Jenny Völpel, both Senior User Experience Consultants, provide clarification and shed light on questions relating to user feedback and awareness. Click here to register in advance, which is mandatory for participation.

Wednesday, 5/24/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Conversations: Joon-Mo Lee
In this episode of 'UX Conversations', we talk to jury member Joon-Mo Lee (Managing Director, PHOENIX Studio Munich) about the role of design as part of the innovation industry and what that role means.

Details

Please register here!

5/25–8/26/2023
Thursday, 5/25/2023
5.00 pm–6.00 pm
IDZ Event

IDZ Virtual Meetup with Peter Post
Circular Experience Library Presentation of free to use UX patterns for the circular economy

Thursday, 5/25/2023
7.30 pm
Member of IDZ

Sustainable Design Center
Blickfang N 10 Trasformation. Design and Methods

from 5/31/2023 12.00 am
to 7/31/2023 11.59 pm

Making the value of design visible
In cooperation with the Institute for Design Research at the h_da University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, the German Design Council would like to investigate where and how design is anchored in German companies.

Details

Where and in which way design is used in german companies?.

Are there designers working on innovations or on corporate strategies in your company? In your company, does design contribute to differentiation or also in the area of transformation?

The 2 minute survey focuses on the status quo regarding in which corporate areas (differentiation, transformation, corporate strategy and innovation) designers are active in German companies.

The results can be used to derive best-case scenarios, conclusions about the value of design for corporate success, and a set of arguments for the proper integration of the design function into the organization.

Click here to access the survey.
The survey is in german language.

June 2023

2/9–7/16/2023

„JR. Déplacé∙e∙s”.
The inspiration of our Member of the month April 2023: Ralf Huss. The french artist JR exhibits his projects that combine photography, public art and social commitment in the Gallerie d´Italia in Turin.

Details

The inspiration of our Member of the month April 2023 Ralf Huss.
After the exhibition stage in Munich in January, the works of the French artist JR can be seen at the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin until 16th July. At the centre of his artistic activity are larger-than-life art interventions in public space that deal with the problems of migrants and refugees. The size makes the artworks interactive, while thematically raising questions about social fragility. JR's art is created with people for people, emphasises individual as well as societal roles, and ultimately seeks to answer the question of whether art can change the world.

3/1–6/2/2023
IDZ Event

#UXDA23: Open for Submissions!
Make it count! The UX Design Awards 2023 - Autumn call for participation is open for submissions. Enter your best work by 2 June!

Details

Details on how to enter and the competition dates are available on the Awards Website.

3/26–6/16/2023
Member of IDZ

Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces.
IDZ member Silke Ihden-Rothkirch is co-curator of the international cooperative exhibition project "Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces". The exhibition can be seen at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts.

Details

The exhibition promises a juxtaposition of different design positions from numerous post-socialist countries. Both realised and visionary designs, dedicated to private and public space, offer new and surprising insights and might contribute to an overdue reassessment of global design history.
The exhibition focuses on the boom of future orientation between the 1950s and 1980s. Thanks to technological progress, the future was suddenly calculable through systematised innovations.
All according to the associated narrative in post-war modernism, which is still valid today: technological progress promotes social prosperity promotes happiness for all.

In addition to futuristic interiors for hotels, airports or one's own home, the exhibition also shows examples of visual communication for sports competitions and festivals in urban spaces, as well as reconstructions of visionary architecture and cybernetic living spaces.

During the event period until the 16th July, a curator's guided tour will be offered every second Thursday.

Tickets cost €8, or €4 for discounted tickets.

More Information on the museums website.

3/31–10/15/2023
4/1–6/30/2023
Member of IDZ

Bauhaus Archiv
Unpacking Jak R. Maier. inherited and unpacked - the value of things

Details

The temporary bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung presents the story of a surprising heritage and the first exhibition on the life and work of the Berlin artist Jak R. Maier, who passed away in 2010. Interactive and multimedia elements provide a glimpse behind the museum's exhibition curation and administration of estate. In addition a series of events will be offered. The event on the 26th April, for example, will focus on the scope of the inheritance.

Admission is free for both the exhibition and the series of events.
However, prior registration is requested for the event.
Further information can be found on the website.

5/25–8/26/2023
from 5/31/2023 12.00 am
to 7/31/2023 11.59 pm

Making the value of design visible
In cooperation with the Institute for Design Research at the h_da University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, the German Design Council would like to investigate where and how design is anchored in German companies.

Details

Where and in which way design is used in german companies?.

Are there designers working on innovations or on corporate strategies in your company? In your company, does design contribute to differentiation or also in the area of transformation?

The 2 minute survey focuses on the status quo regarding in which corporate areas (differentiation, transformation, corporate strategy and innovation) designers are active in German companies.

The results can be used to derive best-case scenarios, conclusions about the value of design for corporate success, and a set of arguments for the proper integration of the design function into the organization.

Click here to access the survey.
The survey is in german language.

Friday, 6/2/2023
Member of IDZ

DGTF Confderence 2023: Design and Digital Justice
Annual conference 2023 and 20th anniversary of the DGTF

Details

This year’s DGTF conference is dedicated to current developments around digital technologies and AI. We want to address the question of how design influences society and contributes to digital (in)justice. From inclusion, anti-discrimination and anti-sexism to privacy and digital colonialism, there are many issues that we as designers and researchers need to address to ensure a fair and just digital future. You can find more Information about the Event here.

6/6–11/2023

German Ecodesign Award | Touring exhibition at 35th Coburger Designtage
The touring exhibition "Thinking ahead" ist part of the 35th edition of the Coburger Designtage.

Details

The 35th Coburger Designtage will be the third stop of our touring exhibition from 6 to 11 June. On the grounds of the emerging Kulturfabrik Cortendorf, you can look forward not only to our exhibition but also to creative workshops, inspiring concerts, exciting lectures and a wide variety of gastronomy.

35th Coburger Designtage
6 to 11 June 2023

Kulturfabrik Cortendorf
Gärtnersleite 20
96450 Coburg

Opening hours:

Tuesday starting at 7 p.m.
Wednesday to Sunday from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.

The entire programme will take place in German.

Wednesday, 6/14/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards: Deep Dive Award Winners | Samsung Research America
In this Deep Dive Jacob Kim, Director R&D Management, Digital Health Lab at Samsung Research America, and Ixabu Gonzalez, Senior UX Designer, Digital Health Lab at Samsung Research America, will walk us through their award-winning project „Samsung Health Stack (SHS)”

Details

Please register here!

Thursday, 6/15/2023
4.00 pm
Member of IDZ

UID Webinars - Trends UX Design
The series of Webinars by UID continues with its next topic: this time "Building the digital transformation"

Details

When building a house, you often notice mistakes only when the residents have already moved in. To avoid the same situation when building a digital infrastructure in your company, Daniel Kurz and Lisa Reimer explain the importance of a people- and user-centred approach in this webinar, whilst using the metaphor of house-building to deepen your understanding. Click here to get to the mandatory registration for the event.

6/16–7/23/2023

German Ecodesign Award | Touring exhibition at designtransfer
designtransfer, the gallery of the College of Architecture, Media and Design at the Berlin University of the Arts, opens the exhibition with a vernissage on 16 June.

Details

At the opening, Prof. Ineke Hans will present the chair REX – award winner in the category “Service” in 2022 – as well as other of her projects in the field of plastic. In addition, UdK student Tim Schütze will present his nominated Young Talent work monoplan.

On 20 June, in the context of the exhibition at designtransfer, the English lecture "Redesign the Ordinary" by Johanna Seelemann will take place, in which she explores material cultures that refer to everyday objects and their contexts, production systems and ecological cycles in order to design desirable future scenarios.

The current winners will be on display there until 23 July, the last day of the annual Open Days of the UdK Berlin.

designtransfer
19 June to 23 July 2023

Berlin University of the Arts
Einsteinufer 43-53
10587 Berlin


Opening hours:
Mo to Fri 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Vernissage:
16 June, 6 p.m.

Lecture "Redesign the Ordinary"
20 June, 7 p.m.

6/16–9/17/2023
Member of IDZ

Plexgroup - Narrative Exhibition Design for the ZeitZeugenBörse
For ZeitZeugenBörse e.V. (ZZB), PLEXGROUP developed and implemented the space and design concept for the exhibition "Nachgefragt". The migration stories of 12 Berliners were made tangible in multimedia design, architecture and motion design.

Details

Location

Mitte Museum
Regionalgeschichtliches Museum für Mitte, Tiergarten und Wedding

Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstraße, Bus M27

Opening hours

Sunday - Friday
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

free Entry


plexgroup.com

Friday, 6/16/2023
6.00 pm–8.30 pm

"politics needs design needs politics"
On the 16th of June 2023, "Deutscher Designtag" welcomes you to their first design policy salon at 6:00 pm in the Camaro Stiftung Berlin. The event will be supported by a panel discussion and short presentations and thematizes the discourse “design and politics”.

Details

POLITICS NEEDS DESIGN NEEDS POLITICS!

How could the design industry and politics work more closely together?
Which potential of the design industry can be used to better achieve political and social goals?
On the 16th of June 2023, solutions for these and other questions will be discussed.

With the "presentation for a Design Policy" at the first design policy salon in Berlin, Germany is joining a worldwide movement to bring politics and design into conversation and to formulate goals with which the necessary change can succeed.
An introduction by Boris Kochan, President of Deutscher Designtag, will be followed by a kick-off, a Q&A session, short presentations and a panel discussion. Deutscher Designtag is looking forward seeing some of you at the event and the following get-together.

Location: Camaro Stiftung, Potsdamer Strasse 98a, 10785 Berlin

The participation is free of charge. Registration is requested

Monday, 6/19/2023
6.00 pm–10.00 pm
IDZ Event

DESIGN INSIGHTS #2 The Process of Halle (Der Halle-Prozess)
IDZ and feldfünf invite you: Lecture evening with Prof. Matthias Görlich, Maja Redlin and Nils Krüger

Details


“We will never be normal again as long as we avoid talking about what happened and why it happened.” (Reem A.)


On 19 June, we continue our DESIGN INSIGHTS series with the presentation of the publication project “Der Halle-Prozess”, which deals with the right-wing terrorist attack in Halle. Guests are Prof. Matthias Görlich, Maja Redlin and Nils Krüger from the study group Information Design (SI) of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle: https://truth.design/.

When?
19 June 2023 at 6:00 p.m. (admission starting at 5:30 p.m.).

Where?
feldfünf, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8, 10969 Berlin, Germany.

Programme:
Prof. Matthias Görlich will first introduce the study group and its working methods. In the group's projects, most notably in the two publications on the “Halle-Prozess”, the potential of communication design in conveying socio-politically relevant issues becomes clear.

On 9 October 2019, the highest Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, a right-wing extremist terrorist first attacks the synagogue in Halle, then the nearby Kiez-Döner. He murders two people and tears many more in Halle and Wiedersdorf (Saxony-Anhalt) from their familiar lives forever. The two-part publication project documents the court case in detail and opens up backgrounds and perspectives to an interested, civil society audience. Nils Krüger and Maja Redlin will present both volumes and provide insights into the genesis, design and implementation of the project. Afterwards, there will be space for questions and discussion.

For the get-together, OBC kindly provides us with Original Berliner Cidre.

The publications „Der Halle-Prozess. Mitschriften“ and „Der Halle-Prozess: Hintergründe und Perspektiven“ are published by Spector Books in Leipzig in 2022.

The event will be held in German, admission is free. Since the number of seats is limited, we ask for binding registration.

Sponsored by

6/22–25/2023
IDZ Event

Berlin Showrooom
Paris Fashion Week

Details

Berlin Showroom will show the most exciting Berlin collections twice this year at Fashion Week in Paris: The Pre-Order event will kick things off from June 22 to 25, for the first time in cooperation with the Tranoï fashion fair.

The collections of Gina Melosi, Impari, Katharina Dubbick, Luise Zücker, Perlensau, Starstyling and Vladimir Karaleev will be on display.

Thursday, 6/22/2023
4.00 pm
Member of IDZ

UID Webinars - Trends UX Design
The next Episode of the series of UX Webinars by UID looks at the significance of UX in Germany.

Details

UID Changitors experts Lisa Reimer and Dr Jan Seifert, who have been empowering project teams to work in an innovative and agile way for 15 years, take a step back and review the last 25 years of UX project management. Where does UX stand today? What challenges do companies face today but also in the future? All these questions will be answered in this webinar. Please register on the UID website before attending.

Thursday, 6/22/2023
5.00 pm–7.30 pm

70 YEARS OF THE GERMAN DESIGN COUNCIL - 70 YEARS OF DESIGN CULTURE
For 70 years, the German Design Council has contributed to the communication, knowledge transfer, networking and promotion of the design process in all areas. Numerous initiatives, concepts and formats have emerged worldwide that link design with business, science, culture and politics.

Details

"Creating Community" Third German Design Debate

The event will feature collectives and individuals whose work is leading to social and economic change, reflecting on the core areas of business, culture, science and education, and presenting their visions for a livable and more just future.

With this debate, the German Design Council aims to focus on these developments and reveal the unifying and fundamental qualities for change from the broad field of design.

Speeches will be translated into German/English by simultaneous interpreters.

Location: Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, admission from 4:30 p.m. onwards

Participation is free of charge. All designers, entrepreneurs, cultural and art professionals, students and people who are interested are invited.

"Creating Community" Third German Design Debate

6/23/2023–9/22/2024

Paula Scher – Type is Image
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of Paula Scher, one of the most influential and successful graphic artists of her generation.

Details

With Type is Image, Die Neue Sammlung continues its tradition of inviting important contemporary designers to a site-specific installation. Paula Scher, who has been shaping graphic design with her innovative creativity for over five decades, has accepted this invitation with a walk-in exhibition of her work.

Until September 2024, the exhibition shows commissioned works from Scher's beginnings to the present day: from the appearance of the Public Theater in New York to the campaign for Rockaway Beach after the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to her room and façade designs.

From the floor to the walls to the hanging letters and posters, the exhibition Type is Image offers visitors the opportunity to be surrounded by Paula Scher's work. Even the display cases are supported by letters. From every angle, new perspectives and interesting interplays of different works emerge.

6/23–9/24/2023
Friday, 6/23/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

SICHTBAR. FRAUEN IN DER ARCHITEKTUR (VISIBLE. WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE)
Together with our neighbors at Metropolenhaus, editor and photographer Anke Illing and Dominika Hasse, Professor of Corporate and Editorial Design at HAWK Hildesheim, we present the book SICHTBAR. FRAUEN IN DER ARCHITEKTUR, that was published by Fruehwerk and Steidl Verlag.

Details

The book brings together portraits of women from all areas of architecture. The photographs as well as personal texts make the women and their perspectives visible on two levels. What issues shape women in architecture? What drives them?
The two pieces of seating furniture, LC4 and LC7 by Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), and the cigar by Mies van der Rohe play a central role.

With text contributions by, among others, Regula Lüscher, Senate Building Director of Berlin until 2021 and patron of the Women in Architecture Berlin festival, Elke Duda, initiator of the festival, and Meike Weber, architect and cultural manager.

Registration is requested: illing@iv-fotografie.berlin

The event will take place in German.

Tuesday, 6/27/2023
4.00 pm–5.00 pm

wirDesign - Circular Reporting
On June 27, wirDesign walks you through how reporting can be designed as a value cycle. wirDesign presents how the annual or sustainability report can be used as a stage for the entire brand. The webinar takes place in cooperation with the media company GoingPublic.

Details

Circular Reporting

Impulses, Insights, Inspiration

wirDesign represents holistic brand management.
Together, outcomes will be created that convince with technical excellence, cope with complexity and put people in the center.
The webinar discusses ways in which reporting can be designed as a value-added cycle and takes place in cooperation with the media company GoingPublic.
Register here.

Wednesday, 6/28/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards: Deep Dive Award Winners | Robert Bosch Hausgeräte GmbH / Bosch Design
In this Deep Dive Christoph Ortmann, Head of Bosch User Interface Design, and Alice Russo, UI/UX Design Manager, will walk us through their award-winning project „Bosch User Interface Generation Digital Ring”.

Details

Please register here!

Thursday, 6/29/2023
4.00 pm
Member of IDZ

UID Webinars - Trends UX Design
In the for now last episode of UID's UX webinars, this time it's about the impact of AI on UX & development.

Details

The speakers Daniel Kurz, who specialises in responsive design and agile project development, and Franz Koller, an expert in the design of user-friendly and responsive UIs, will discuss how generative AI affects daily work in UX and software and how it can be used sensibly. The focus will not only be on text creation with the help of ChatGPT for example, but also on the generation of code and design. Some tips to make daily work easier and application examples will be presented. Please register in advance on the UID- Webseite.

July 2023

2/9–7/16/2023

„JR. Déplacé∙e∙s”.
The inspiration of our Member of the month April 2023: Ralf Huss. The french artist JR exhibits his projects that combine photography, public art and social commitment in the Gallerie d´Italia in Turin.

Details

The inspiration of our Member of the month April 2023 Ralf Huss.
After the exhibition stage in Munich in January, the works of the French artist JR can be seen at the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin until 16th July. At the centre of his artistic activity are larger-than-life art interventions in public space that deal with the problems of migrants and refugees. The size makes the artworks interactive, while thematically raising questions about social fragility. JR's art is created with people for people, emphasises individual as well as societal roles, and ultimately seeks to answer the question of whether art can change the world.

3/31–10/15/2023
5/25–8/26/2023
from 5/31/2023 12.00 am
to 7/31/2023 11.59 pm

Making the value of design visible
In cooperation with the Institute for Design Research at the h_da University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, the German Design Council would like to investigate where and how design is anchored in German companies.

Details

Where and in which way design is used in german companies?.

Are there designers working on innovations or on corporate strategies in your company? In your company, does design contribute to differentiation or also in the area of transformation?

The 2 minute survey focuses on the status quo regarding in which corporate areas (differentiation, transformation, corporate strategy and innovation) designers are active in German companies.

The results can be used to derive best-case scenarios, conclusions about the value of design for corporate success, and a set of arguments for the proper integration of the design function into the organization.

Click here to access the survey.
The survey is in german language.

6/16–7/23/2023

German Ecodesign Award | Touring exhibition at designtransfer
designtransfer, the gallery of the College of Architecture, Media and Design at the Berlin University of the Arts, opens the exhibition with a vernissage on 16 June.

Details

At the opening, Prof. Ineke Hans will present the chair REX – award winner in the category “Service” in 2022 – as well as other of her projects in the field of plastic. In addition, UdK student Tim Schütze will present his nominated Young Talent work monoplan.

On 20 June, in the context of the exhibition at designtransfer, the English lecture "Redesign the Ordinary" by Johanna Seelemann will take place, in which she explores material cultures that refer to everyday objects and their contexts, production systems and ecological cycles in order to design desirable future scenarios.

The current winners will be on display there until 23 July, the last day of the annual Open Days of the UdK Berlin.

designtransfer
19 June to 23 July 2023

Berlin University of the Arts
Einsteinufer 43-53
10587 Berlin


Opening hours:
Mo to Fri 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Vernissage:
16 June, 6 p.m.

Lecture "Redesign the Ordinary"
20 June, 7 p.m.

6/16–9/17/2023
Member of IDZ

Plexgroup - Narrative Exhibition Design for the ZeitZeugenBörse
For ZeitZeugenBörse e.V. (ZZB), PLEXGROUP developed and implemented the space and design concept for the exhibition "Nachgefragt". The migration stories of 12 Berliners were made tangible in multimedia design, architecture and motion design.

Details

Location

Mitte Museum
Regionalgeschichtliches Museum für Mitte, Tiergarten und Wedding

Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstraße, Bus M27

Opening hours

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6/23/2023–9/22/2024

Paula Scher – Type is Image
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of Paula Scher, one of the most influential and successful graphic artists of her generation.

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With Type is Image, Die Neue Sammlung continues its tradition of inviting important contemporary designers to a site-specific installation. Paula Scher, who has been shaping graphic design with her innovative creativity for over five decades, has accepted this invitation with a walk-in exhibition of her work.

Until September 2024, the exhibition shows commissioned works from Scher's beginnings to the present day: from the appearance of the Public Theater in New York to the campaign for Rockaway Beach after the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to her room and façade designs.

From the floor to the walls to the hanging letters and posters, the exhibition Type is Image offers visitors the opportunity to be surrounded by Paula Scher's work. Even the display cases are supported by letters. From every angle, new perspectives and interesting interplays of different works emerge.

6/23–9/24/2023
Thursday, 7/6/2023
5.00 pm–7.00 pm
IDZ Event

IDZ General Assembly 2023 - Online
Online via Zoom

Thursday, 7/6/2023
5.00 pm–7.00 pm
IDZ Event

IDZ General Assembly 2023 - On Location
On location at IDZ Berlin, Markgrafenstr. 88, in 10969 Berlin.

Thursday, 7/6/2023
7.00 pm–10.00 pm
IDZ Event

IDZ Summer Reception
IDZ Summer reception right after the assembly for members, partners and colleagues.

Tuesday, 7/11/2023
5.00 pm–6.00 pm
IDZ Event

IDZ Excursion with Silke Ihden-Rothkirch
Invitation to guided tour through special exhibition - Retrotopia – Design for Socialist Spaces - at Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin

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Eleven "design capsules" show design projects, many of them unknown, from former socialist countries in Europe, including the former Yugoslavia. Curator Dr. Claudia Banz, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, had invited co-curatorial teams from Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Eisenhüttenstadt, Kiev, Ljubljana, Prague, Tallinn, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb and Berlin to stage one contribution each for the public space and the private sphere.

IDZ member Silke Ihden-Rothkirch was involved in the project as co-curator and editor and will accompany the tour of the exhibition hall on July 11. In addition, you can look forward to a greeting from Dr. Banz, interesting visual axes, unusual constellations and impulses for further explorations, and a glass of wine afterwards, to which we cordially invite you.

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Wednesday, 7/12/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards: Deep Dive Award Winners | Vialytics
In this Deep Dive Christian Wehle, Product Manager, vialytics GmbH, and Andy Kozma, Chief Revenue Officer, vialytics GmbH, will walk us through the award-winning project „The Intelligent Road Management App”.

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from 7/15/2023 10.00 am
to 7/16/2023 6.00 pm

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle - Annual Exhibition 2023
On the 15th and 16th of July, the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle presents its annual exhibition. Rooms of the university as well as other locations in Halle will offer insights into the creative processes and results of the students. Burg Giebichenstein is looking forward to welcome you form 10 am to 16 pm.

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For more information on the Annual Exhibition 2023 click here.

Wednesday, 7/26/2023
5.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards: Deep Dive Award Winners | Bitstamp / Momentum Design Lab
In this Deep Dive, Mark Scrivener, Managing Director, and Sam Price, Senior Product Designer, both at Momentum Design Lab, at will walk us through the award-winning project „ Bitstamp Go with MomentumIO”.

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