All News of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

On the occasion of her appointment as Professor of Editorial Design at the Department of Design, Prof. Susanne Stahl will give her inaugural lecture "The book you want to design no longer exists" on the 11th of December 2023.

Hyeonji Kim, a graduate of the Department of Design, was awarded the FH Potsdam Gender Prize for her Master's thesis "Designing a Customizable Period Tracker With a Human-Centered Approach and Data Visualisation to Support Menopausal Transition".

The joint exhibition "Drängende Gegenwart" will open on the 5th of December 2023 at 3.30 pm in the foyer of the main building of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Photographic and textile works by students from the Department of Design will be exhibited in the library of the FH Potsdam.

The Volkswagen Foundation has approved funding totalling EUR 346,900 for the research project "Grenzwerte: Operative Verhältnisse von Klima und Migration". The project is embedded in the programme "Aufbruch – Neue Forschungsräume für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften" in the Exploration profile…

In the 2023/24 funding period, 25 out of 78 applicants were awarded a Deutschlandstipendium scholarship. The outstanding students receive 300 euros per month for one year. Since the start of the programme, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, together with many partners and the Federal…

The POTSDAM LAB will open its doors on the 14th of October 2023. As part of the Smart City model project, the POTSDAM LAB has created a space for experimentation, learning and encounters between citizens, science and administration. The aim is to work together on new and creative solutions to key…

The exhibition "Drängende Gegenwart - Fotografie als Forschungsinstrument" was opened on the 11th of July 2023 in the foyer of the Brandenburg State Parliament by the President of the State Parliament, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Liedtke. The photographic works of students from the Department of Design will be…

The cooperation agreement between the Brandenburg Textile Museum Forst (Lausitz) and the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam builds a bridge between historical and contemporary textile works. Looking from the past to the future, the University of Applied Sciences and…

The local ice cream shop "Eisfrau" recently adopted a new look, which was designed by communication design student Birte Rauch. The design was created in a foundation course of the degree programme Communication Design at the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

In the winter semester 2022/23, four courses in the departments of Design and CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences dealt with barriers. The result is an exhibition that opens on the 5 of May and can be experienced on the university campus until the 13th of May.

Drängende Gegenwart: Der Blick der jungen Generation is a joint exhibition of photography training centres in Berlin and Potsdam, which have joined forces at the invitation of the European Month of Photography Berlin (EMOP Berlin). The exhibition includes moving photographic works by five graduates…

The photographer Frédéric Brenner has accompanied Jewish communities in over forty countries with his camera since 1978. The research project "Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualising a Photo Archive on Diaspora" (GraDiM) at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is working with…