Telling the Foreign. A Travel Kit

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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.

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Supervision via Skype

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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,

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Supervising Students Abroad

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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.

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Das Travel Kit

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Das Travel Kit ist ein Instrument für die Designausbildung, das im Rahmen unseres Projekts Cultural Spaces and Design entwickelt wird. Die Idee ist es, die Reisen und Auslandsaufenthalte, die angehende Gestalterinnen während ihres Studiums machen, zum Gegenstand der Ausbildung zu machen.

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