Cultural Spaces and Design
– Prospects of Design Education
Travelogue: english
Telling the Foreign. A Travel Kit
The little booklet named Travel Kit shows ways approach a cultural investigation as a design student. Take it with you when you travel! It is not academic – it is simply a collection of questions, summarized under six topics.
Methods for Exploring Cultural Spaces
When Gabriel Meisel and his team went for a two-week field research to the refugee camp in Calais, each of them defined his or her own method and way to keep a journal about their findings. These methods included: a mobile kitchen as a device of interaction, research through joint solidarity…
Supervision via Skype
Supervision via Skype is part of most supervisors’ practice today. In this post me, Anka Falk, will describe my personal observations when supervising via Skype. I have had many Skype sessions with students especially over the last years,
Supervising Students Abroad
Spending time abroad as a student today is easier than ever. Thanks to exchange programmes like Erasmus it became a common element of academic studies. And likewise supervising students while they are abroad is, thanks to Skype and similar technology, much easier today. Still some challenges remain.
Collaborations of Designers and Artisans
It is a common practice today to leave handmade processes to artisans in poorer countries. A range of questions around this kind of collaboration occurs, as Murray points out: Manuel labour in the west has for a long time been declining.
Exploring Cultural Dimensions of Designing
Is design a uniform practique? Or is ist culturally coded? Do people around the globe follow the same procedures? Or are there different processes, different tools and methods, and even different values behind design decisions?
What is a Cultural Space?
This blog arose from the project Cultural Spaces and Design – Prospects for Design Education. We have chosen this title very consciously – but of course we are often asked: What exactly is a „cultural space“? We chose a spacial metaphor when talking about cultures, but certainly it is not only a metaphor. Spaces can be explored for real. Spaces can be internal or external, they can be of different size, focusing on local conditions or global phenomena…
The Bunker as an Agora
Our engagement in the topic of cultural spaces and design started with observing our students. They have been travelling and many of them realized projects that include or comment on different cultural spaces. How can we encourage them to reflect on this as topic in design education? From there we took forward the idea of making a Travel Kit to support our students…