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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Please register here!

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.

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.

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


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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

“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.

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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.

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.

"Creating Community" Third German Design Debate

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.

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.

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.

Please register here!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Please register

Please register here!

For more information on the Annual Exhibition 2023 click here.

Please register here!

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

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.

Faceless, fragmented, forgotten –

This is the condition of most urban sites in cities around the globe. How to agglomerate these atomized bits and pieces? Imagine creating urban ecotones as places of friction and encounter, where spatial interventions prompt people to co-inhabit buildings, open spaces, urban systems, and atmospheres.
Welcome to the experiment of the Initiators: Benita Braun-Feldweg (bfstudio-architekten Berlin), Lisa Diedrich (Walter Gropius Lehrstuhl Buenos Aires und SLU-Malmö), Flavio Janches (FADU- UBA Buenos Aires).
An Exhibition which AGGLOmerates 5 approaches, 4 universities, 3 disciplines to suggest ideas for an urban living on 3 sites in Berlin.

HOW DO WE AGGLO? Is taking place in the rooms of the Metropolenhaus.
Feldfünf, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8 10969 Berlin

Click here for more information regarding the exhibition "HOW DO WE AGLO?" running from the 18.08.2023 - 09.09.2023.

The opening will be held in English.

We introduce AGGLOmeration as a design activity. In departing from the common understanding of agglomeration as description of problematic disjuncted urban spaces, we can activate hitherto neglected urban areas and make use of their undiscovered potentialities.

HOW DO WE AGGLO? Is taking place in the rooms of the Metropolenhaus.
Feldfünf, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8 10969 Berlin

Visit the exhibition on Aug. 25, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. for in-depth discussions.
The panel discussion will be held in German.