Cultural Spaces and Design
– Prospects of Design Education
Travelogue: Supervision
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.
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.
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.
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?
Das Travel Kit
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.
Bevor die Reise beginnt
Wo auch immer eine Reise hinführen soll, ins Quartier oder auf die andere Seite der Welt, für einen Tag oder ein Jahr – so braucht es einiges an Vorbereitungen. Vor allem wenn sie als Studienleistung anerkannt werden soll! Zunächst wären da die Vorbereitungen der ganz praktischen Art, bezüglich Reiseziel, Unterkunft, finanzieller Bedarf, Transportmittel und dergleichen…