Projects of the Department of Design

    AND THERE, WHERE MY HOME IS

    Amely Sommer's bachelor thesis uses different photographic layers to tell the story of family, early politicisation and socialisation in an East German province.

    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.

    Divided by Design

    An orientation towards more gender-equitable design

    Queering the Map of Berlin

    A participatory exhibition concept on queer urban experience and spatial perception

    FUX-XR@FH;P: Extended Reality (XR)

    The aim of the project, which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, is to bring together virtual and real environments.

    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.

    "Das Neue Gartenfeld" – Resilience and Transformation of Urban Structures

    Design and research project work based on the planned urban neighbourhood "Das Neue Gartenfeld" in Berlin-Spandau – a real-life laboratory of urban innovation and an arena for social debate.

    Metal in Flux. From Casting to Mould

    An exhibition project with the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin with the question: What potential do archives have for designers and what new types of design processes can be conceived in art casting?

    Inter...what? Intersectionality! A Visual Introduction

    What is intersectionality? How are discrimination and privilege related? What does intersectional discrimination mean? These questions are answered in the web-based article "Inter...was? Intersektionalität! – Eine visuelle Einführung" answers them. With a combination of text, animated illustration and interactive data visualisation, it offers an introduction to the socially relevant topic of…

    Topography of Violence

    Research cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin on the visualisation of anti-Semitic acts of violence between 1930 and 1938