Exkursion to Dutch Design Week 2024

Exkursion to Dutch Design Week 2024 19.10 2024 Eindhoven (NL) For two days we visited the Dutch Design Week. The annual design festival in Eindhoven featured a variety of exhibitions, events and talks, with national and inter- national designers opening the doors to their studios and presenting their work. This year’s theme was ’REAL UNREAL’. …

Exkursion to Museum Schoenenkwartier 

Exkursion to Museum Schoenenkwartier  18.10.24 Waalwijk (NL) The town of Waalwijk is a former center of the leather and shoe industry in the Netherlands, which is due to the characteristics of the region. Clean groundwater and the many meadows formed an ideal basis for the former cattle breeding industry. The Museum Schoenenkwartier shows the history …

Excursion to the studios Joris de Groot & Suzanne Oude Hengel

Excursion to the studios Joris de Groot & Suzanne Oude Hengel 17.10.2024 Arnhem (NL) As part of our excursion to the Netherlands, we visited Joris de Groot and Suzanne Oude Hengel in their studios. The two work in neighboring studios on the grounds of the Kleefse Ward industrial park. Both studied design at the Artez …

Excursion: Visit of Circular Berlin

Excursion: Visit of Circular Berlin 7.10.2024 Circular Berlin e.V. is a non-profit organization working to develop Berlin into a circular-oriented city within the framework of the sustainability goals adopted by the city, by generating knowledge, building networks, and realizing implementation-oriented projects. Their activities include workshops for companies or educational institutions, regular events, and digital tools …

Excursion: Visit of PCH Innovations

Excursion: Visit of PCH Innovations 7.10.2024 After our visit at Circular Berlin, we went on to PCH Innovations, a studio working at the intersection of technology and design. Moritz Koch, who also studied industrial design at Burg Giebichenstein and now works in the field of robotic hardware, and Gabriella Seeman, Head of Design at the …

Excursion: Visit of toolbot

Excursion: Visit of toolbot 7.10.2024 The idea behind Toolbot arose from the observation that many people buy expensive tools that they only use infrequently. So why pay high purchase costs and sacrifice valuable space for tools that are only used occasionally? Borrowing tools from a DIY store is often associated with long distances, adherence to …

Excursion: Lecture by Melanie Jäger-Erben

Excursion: Lecture by Melanie Jäger-Erben 8.10.2024 How can objects promote sustainable consumption? This question marks the beginning of Jaeger-Erben’s lecture. Melanie Jaeger-Erben is a sociologist and transformation researcher and professor of technology and environmental sociology in Cottbus. In her work, she deals with topics such as circular economy and other economic concepts like degrowth or …

Excursion: Haus der Materialisierung

Excursion: Haus der Materialisierung 8.10.2024 with Vera Rotter and Johannes Scholz from TU Berlin Chair of Circular Economy and Recycling Technology (CERT) The project “Haus der Materialisierung“ in Berlin is part of a larger creative space closely tied to the so-called “Haus der Statistik“ at Alexanderplatz. This building complex, originally constructed for government administration purposes …