Cultural Spaces and Design
– Prospects of Design Education
Travelogue: Uncategorized
Supervision: Working on the Research Question
Getting stuck in our own perspective is a risk for all who travel. For many years, our students at HyperWerk have been travelling and ever since then we were also challenged to supervise them while they were doing their research or project work abroad.
Cultural Sensitivity Through Design Practices
How to develop cultural sensitivity through design practices and journaling After we developed the first prototype of the Travel Kit, students at HyperWerk started using it when doing projects abroad and a range of interesting projects arose. One of them is described here, and others you find if you follow the tag students’ projects. Manuel … Continue reading “Cultural Sensitivity Through Design Practices”
Mateland – fragmentarisches Erzählen
Wie man mit Zeichnungen und Illustrationen eine kulturellen Raum erforschen kann, hat auch Franziska Schüpbach in einem Reisejournal und der daraus entstandenen Publikation Mateland erforscht.
Material Culture
By studying material culture, we can explore local design cultures that are specific for a certain area. Local design cultures often include specific resources (often the ones available on site), specific manufacturing and aesthetics .
On the Move
Cities on the Move – 2727 Kilometers Bottari Truck – this is the title of a project of south korean artist Soo-Ja Kim. On a Bottari truck, with traditional bundles of cloth to carry objects, we can travel with her, criss-crossing space to places that are relevant for her own biography. As she is allowing us to take her perspective, we can widen our own pespective.