15. – 16.11.2024
Design Sessions
Venue:
- unterschiedliche Orte
‘I'd like to study design - but what exactly do you do?’ If you're asking yourself this question, the HFBK Hamburg's Design Sessions on 15 and 16 November 2024 are the right place for you, as the HFBK will be opening its doors and inviting you to guided tours, project presentations, lectures and workshops in its design studios and workshops.
After a brief introduction to design studies at the HFBK, participants will be invited on a guided tour of the workshops and design studios with project presentations by HFBK students.
Friday evening will conclude with a lecture event in which HFBK lecturers Dorothee Halbrock and Friedrich von Borries will discuss the political dimensions of design from current and historical perspectives with two external guests, Daniel Hornuff (Kunsthochschule Kassel) and Alexander Römer (Constructlab Berlin e.V.).
The core of the two-day programme of events follows on Saturday with three workshops led by successful graduates of the university. The programme is as diverse as the HFBK itself: in ‘Hands on’, prospective students can test their own design skills, in ‘Ghostly Interventions: Design as Critical Practice in Public Space’, they learn how design can be used as a means of making social structures visible and in “Basics on Structurelessness - Planning, Building and Organising Structures” they can try out methods of organisational and process development, which can also form the basis of collaborative design.
Participants then receive a certificate of participation that they can include in their CV.
Registration by 11 November 2024 to Swaantje Benson.
Friday, 15 November 2024
3 pm, ICAT 03
Welcome and brief presentation of the design degree programme at the HFBK by Prof. Dr Jesko Fezer
4 -6:30 pm, Guided tour of the HFBK with project presentations
Workshop for digital/materials
Workshop for ceramics/plaster
Workshop for metal
Studio Experimentelles Design
Studio Design
Grundklasse Design
Studio Social Design
Studio Produktdesign
7 pm ‘What Design Can Do?’ Lectures and discussion (public), Aula, HFBK
Prof. Dorothee Halbrock (HFBK Hamburg)
Prof. Dr. Daniel Hornuff (Kunsthochschule Kassel)
Alexander Römer (Constructlab Berlin e.V.)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Friedrich von Borries (HFBK Hamburg)
A lot is being designed. But what is really important? What form of design actually responds to pressing social issues and problems? And what does that even mean? Because the moment design claims to be socially relevant, it becomes political. What are the criteria for assessing the quality of proposed solutions? In the symposium, practitioners and theorists will discuss the political dimensions of design from current and historical perspectives.
Saturday, 16 November 2024
10 am - 6 pm Workshop programme, ICAT, Atelierhaus
Presentation of the three workshops and the workshop leaders Simon Stanislawski/Moritz Clasen, Kolja Vennewald, and Nuriye Tohermes/Johanna Padge
Workshop 1: Hands on , ICAT 03, Atelierhaus
(Simon Stanislawski and Moritz Clasen)
In this workshop, the various phases of a design project will be tested in fast-forward mode. The focus is on the rapid realisation of a design. We will support you with the necessary expertise, tools and materials. The keyword is hands-on. After a brief input from us, we move straight into the design phase. Together we talk about initial ideas, give feedback, try things out and work together on your designs. At the end of the day, you will present your experiments and designs to the other participants.
Simon Stanislawski and Moritz Clasen work as the project office sms pm in the collectively run workshop Baarm e.V. in Hamburg Barmbek.
Workshop 2: Ghostly Interventions: Design as critical practice in public space, Room 213a/b Le
(Kolja Vennewald)
In this workshop, you will learn how design can be used as a means of visualising social structures and questioning our habitual perception of public space. Using the methods of Lucius Burckhardt's science of walking, we will observe and explore the environment around the university and discover it from new perspectives. We will focus in particular on the existing design in public spaces - from architecture and traffic elements to advertising spaces - and examine how this influences our behaviour and thinking.
The aim of the workshop is to use creative interventions and small interventions to create moments of irritation that make us see and question everyday structures differently. Together we will develop ideas on how design can be used as a tool to reflect and potentially change social realities - whether through performative actions or installative mini-projects. Kolja is interested in the social, economic, political and cultural conditions that give rise to art. In his artistic practice, he has increasingly focussed on and developed a collective and collaborative approach to his work. Here he works with emancipatory forms of labour and practices of communality in an interdisciplinary, site-specific and performative way, with techniques of re-construction and speculation, between research and fiction.
Workshop 3: Basics of structurelessness - planning, building and organising structures, Room 11 Le
(Nuriye Tohermes and Johanna Padge)
In this workshop, we want to try out methods of organisational and process development with you that can also form the basis of collaborative design. This is precisely what Johanna Padge and Nuriye Tohermes are concerned with in their work: in different constellations - often together - they create spaces for exchange and thus constantly renegotiate what public space can be. These design processes constantly open up new possibilities for thinking, planning, designing and utilising spaces, thus creating new practices of collaborative planning. In Hamburg, the two lead the PARKS project, which, as part of the development of the Alster-Bille-Elbe green corridor, is converting, opening up and using the so-called old recycling centre. With their office UVM, Padge and Tohermes, together with their colleagues, also work on problems of public welfare-orientated urban development using art, design, architecture, research, process development and curation. The workshop will provide an insight into the basics of design strategies. We will work in small groups to develop initial ideas for a public space and talk about the opportunities and pitfalls of group processes and self-organised work.
Johanna Padge is a master carpenter, studied design in Halle and Hamburg and has already held various teaching positions, for example at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle or, from the winter semester 2024/25, as a professor at HBK Braunschweig. Nuriye Tohermes began working with and in public space as a student at the HFBK and has since developed projects in many places around the world. The focus is always on local resources, wishes and knowledge of the respective neighbourhoods.