From Theory to Practice: Projects at the FH Potsdam at a Glance

Here you will find a current overview of selected projects at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. You can filter the projects by departments and degree programs, by project type, or by content focus.

    App Prototyping as an Inclusive Teaching-Learning Arrangement for the Integrative Development of Digital Skills at Upper Secondary Level

    The planned project will develop and empirically test a new approach to teaching digital skills through app prototyping.

    International Study and Training Partnership with the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan*

    Exchange programme for students and teachers within the framework of the DAAD ISAP programme

    Fear of change – transformation prototypes

    Participatory design as a means of participation and understanding to counteract social division.

    GraDiM: Granularities of dispersion and Materiality: Visualisation of a Photo Archive on Diaspora

    In collaboration with the photographer Frédéric Brenner and his international project team, the GraDiM research project is developing theoretical and technical concepts for the visualisation of a photographic archive, with particular sensitivity towards a collection documenting the Jewish diaspora.

    KLIMAKARTEN: Visualisation of Local Climate Futures

    A collaboration between the daily newspaper "taz" and UCLAB aimed at communicating future climate scenarios through various channels using data visualisations. To this end, both physical and digital postcards featuring visualisations of various aspects of climate protection in Germany were designed and produced.

    Vanished Villages

    A story about open-cast mining in Germany and its victims

    Course Project on Dealing with Typeface in Virtual Reality

    Virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality have now become design spaces for very different action scenarios. And although the use of text is necessary for a large number of applications, it is noticeable overall that the handling of type and typography in VR/AR/XR is treated as a lower priority. We want to change this.

    Unfolding Spaces

    Development of an English-language online course between the Design Department and the College of Design at the partner university National Taipei University of Technology in Taipei

    Amazonia as a Laboratory for the Future - Networking-Understanding-Mediation

    Using items from the collection as a starting point, we aim to break down barriers and create spaces for connection, understanding and communication.

    ReFa: Restaging Fashion - Digital Contextualisation of Fashion Sources

    The interdisciplinary research and digitisation project “Restaging Fashion. Visualisation of Fashion Sources” (ReFa) has developed exploratory approaches to collections held by the Kunstbibliothek Berlin – specifically its “Modebild – Lipperheide Costume Library” collection – and the Textiles Collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

    DataSkop - What Happens to My Data?

    The DataSkop project, funded by the BMBF, explores the potential of innovative user interfaces and visualisations to promote users’ digital sovereignty.

    KOLLISIONEN - Media collisions as drivers of innovation for new approaches to cultural heritage

    The project explores the potential of immersion and narration for visualising and making cultural collections accessible.