Dear readers,
Thirty-three years after reunification, it is often said that Germany and the world at large are in multiple crises. Together with our member Archimedes Exhibitions, we are preparing a joint event as part of the Berlin Science Week to discuss whether this is actually the case and where and how design could help. Please already pencil in this event, “Designing Beyond Crisis” on the evening of 2 November.
But above all, stay confident and look forward to what is most important: a peaceful and constructive exchange among each other!
Best regards
Your IDZ Team
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IDZ-Member of the Month
Randi Köster
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The industrial designer Randi Köster is our Member of the Month for October 2023. She is currently studying for a master's degree in systems design at HTW Berlin; it wasn't until she was 42 that she decided to take up her studies. Previously, she was the owner of a delicatessen for ten years. After it closed, she worked in event production in collaboration with Christoph Amshoff and Silk Relations. During this time, she decided to further develop her product and interior design talents through graduate studies. The systemic approach now provides her with further perspectives.
The application phase for the master's program in systems design will run until 4 December 2023. The program will start again in the summer semester of 2024!
Inspiration
Daniel Kahnemann: “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
All contributions to our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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UX Design Awards:
Meet the Jury!
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The jury plays a central role in shaping the reputation of the Awards. The credibility and prestige of the competition are defined by the dedication, expertise, and wealth of experience our jurors bring to the table. So it is with great pride that we introduce the judges for the UX Design Awards – Spring 2024.
Submit your work to the UX Design Awards by 30 November to have it assessed by this panel of internationally renowned experts!
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Deep Dive: Award Winners | VLab on 11 October
In the Deep Dive on 11 October, I-Yang Huang and Tiange Wang of VLab will present the UX Design Award | Concept 2023 winning project “SpaceV: Space-Vending System for Future Well-being.”
SpaceV is a digital space-vending system focused on improving urban well-being. It offers customizable spaces for various activities, from exercise to relaxation, with flexible booking options by the minute or hour. Users can tailor their sensory experience and supplies. #UXDA23 juror Shruti Ramiah praised SpaceV for its user-centered design and anticipation of future human needs, awarding it for its thoughtful approach.
Deep Dive: Award Winners | VLab
SpaceV: Space-Vending System for Future Wellbeing
11. October 2023, 5 PM CEST
Further information and registration
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German Ecodesign Award 2023
26 Projects are Nominated
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© Anke Illing | IDZ
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The competition was fierce: Of around 150 entries viewed and evaluated by the jury at the Metropolenhaus Berlin on 25 and 26 September, 26 innovative projects made it to the final selection. These can now hope for the German Ecodesign Award 2023. The nominees are presented in an online gallery.
All projects admitted to the jury meeting were on public display at the Metropolenhaus Berlin up to and including 3 October. The vernissage also offered the opportunity to meet some of the participants in person.
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Pelin Celik
Master Program System Design at HTW Berlin
The SYSTEM DESIGN master’s program in System Design / Game Design teaches method-oriented, interconnected thinking (system thinking), which can be used to address dynamic development processes and complex problems. Global and regional challenges require understanding the growing complexity of systems (ecological, economic, technological, political, and social) and the interconnected considerations in an intercultural context. Applications are open until 4 December.
German Design Council
GERMAN DESIGN GRADUATES 2023
Given the challenges of our time, designers, in particular, are called upon to find new solutions, experiment, and break new ground. The young generation’s projects often directly contribute to a more ecologically sustainable, socially just, and technologically innovative world. The exhibition “Dare to Design” by the German Design Graduates initiative can be seen at Hamburg’s Museum Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G) until 8 October.
Joachim Kobuss
New Column # 41. Design Capabilities
Joachim Kobuss accompanied the study by Prof. Jan-Erik Baars of HU Luzern on the design capabilities of companies in the DACH region from the beginning. Now that the study report has been published, he summarizes the most important questions and findings in his column. International Design Center Berlin (IDZ) supported this research project together with bayern design, Design Austria and the Swiss Design Association.
Medianet Berlinbrandenburg
Call for entries
The medien.barometer 2023/24 wants to find out how companies in the media, creative, and digital industries in Berlin and Brandenburg are positioned in terms of sustainability and climate protection. Do they take social and ecological aspects into account in their corporate decisions? Do they rate this responsibility as part of their business success? Which measures have already been taken, and which ones are facing hurdles? Click here to access the approximately 10-minute survey by the independent media research institute House of Research.
Luisa Stibbe
Kirche von unten: Art, Medicine & Gender Exhibition
On 15 October, Flinta* will show their creative works at Storkower Straße 19 in Berlin-Friedrichshain. In addition to Luisa Stibbe, other talented female artists invite visitors to explore and visually experience social ills in their illustrations, paintings, photography, and multimedia works. Live music, readings and poetry slam performances will accompany the exhibition. It starts at 3 p.m.; admission is on a donation basis.
Temporary Bauhaus Archive
Art on the building
The Bauhaus Archive in Berlin-Tiergarten is being renovated per the preservation order and expanded with a new building. Twelve artists developed concepts for the new museum as part of a Europe-wide art-in-building competition to be held in spring 2023. The winning design has now been selected and, together with the other eleven concepts submitted, will be shown in an exhibition at the temporary bauhaus-archiv from 24 October.
Alp Turgut
DEV Challenge 2023
Alp Turgut from London has been nominated for this year’s UI jury of the DEV Challenge, the largest European competition in the IT field. We wish you good insights and an exciting final round on 4 and 5 November.
wirDesign
Webinar: Don’t be afraid of sustainability
On 19 October at 5 pm, wirDesign, GoingPublic, and Zukunftswerk invite you to the webinar “Ready for Sustainability? What to do now.” Here, reporting and branding experts Eva Schmider (Zukunftswerk) and Thorsten Greinus (wirDesign) will talk about the upcoming reporting obligation and show the first steps on the way to a sustainability report that pays off for the brand - and is not perceived as a mandatory exercise. Click here to register.
Alexander Wodrich
International Sounds Awards
Alexander Wodrich, Managing Director at why do birds, has won Gold in the Audio Branding category at the International Sounds Awards | Audio Branding Academy with the new brand sound at Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). Congratulations!
Dear IDZ members, Send us your news – we will be happy to share it!
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Academy of Arts Berlin
The Great Repair
“The Great Repair” presents more than 40 positions from art and architecture and spatial practices in which repair becomes tangible as a new design paradigm against the backdrop of current ecological and social crises. The exhibition will open on 13 September in the rooms of the Akademie der Künste. The project focuses on a (critical) reflection of the current economic system; likewise, the exhibition explores in a discourse of repair to what extent the politics and aesthetics of repair can be a meaningful alternative from a postcolonial, feminist, and posthumanist perspective.
Alte Nationalgalerie
Secessionen. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann
The exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie is dedicated for the first time until 22 October to a comparison of the three art metropolises in Munich, Vienna, and Berlin at the turn of the century. With the dawn of modernism, the artistic avant-garde pushed for freedom regarding content and institutions.
Berlinische Galerie
Edvard Munch "Magic of the North"
Edvard Munch’s radical modernity of painting challenged contemporaries. This was especially true of the Berlin art scene around the turn of the century, which the Norwegian symbolist greatly influenced. The exhibition “Magic of the North” runs until 22 January 2024 and cooperates with MUNCH in Oslo. It tells the story of Edvard Munch and Berlin through paintings, graphic art, and photography. Starting in November, the Museum Barberini will join the great Munch series in the capital region with the exhibition Trembling Earth.
Gemäldegalerie
Zoom in on van Eyck. Masterpieces in detail
No other painter in the history of European art could reproduce the details of his reality with comparable brilliance and precision as the founder of Old Dutch painting, Jan van Eyck. From 20 October, an interactive digital projection in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie will make it possible to immerse oneself in the minutest subtleties of his masterpieces.
Humboldt Forum
Korea - Fascination for a Closed Kingdom
The new special exhibition “Ari-Arirang, Korea – Faszination für ein verschlossenes Königreich”, starting on 13 October, presents a selection of objects from the hitherto little-known Korean collection of the Ethnological Museum that testify to Germany’s interest in and fascination with Korea since the 1870s.
Hamburger Bahnhof
Lee Ufan
Starting on 27 October, Hamburger Bahnhof presents the first retrospective of the painter and sculptor Lee Ufan in Germany. Lee is one of the most important representatives of the Mono-ha school in Japan and the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea, which developed parallel to other minimalist art movements. The exhibition shows about 50 works from five decades of his career.
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Extraordinary Furniture for Charles III of Spain (1759–1788)
In the second half of the 18th century, José Canops (1733-1814) created masterpieces of furniture art in Madrid as a court cabinetmaker for the Spanish King Charles III. Beginning 12 October, the exhibition will present Canops’ largely unknown work outside of Spain for the first time. In addition to spectacular furniture, a wide-ranging treasure trove of books, prints, maps, musical instruments, and works of applied art will provide insights into the broader context of the period.
Pergamon Museum
Chinese Arabic Calligraphy by Haji Noor Deen
With a solo exhibition of the most important contemporary representative of Sini calligraphy, the Museum of Islamic Art shows selected works by Haji Noor Deen in Berlin for the first time until 22 October. Sini calligraphy is the script art of the Muslim minority in China. The unique feature of Sini calligraphy is the fusion of techniques and styles of Arabic and Chinese writing traditions. An excellent opportunity to go to the Pergamon Museum once again before the closure of several years from 23 October!
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National and International
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Essen
Red Dot Design Museum: The foundations of Japanese design
From 20 October, the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen will be showing “The KOUBA Principle: The Foundations of Japanese Design in the Tsubame-Sanjo Region,” a special exhibition focusing on knives, tools, and other metal products created in the very workshops (Japanese: KOUBA) in this tradition-steeped industrial region.
Copenhagen
Danish Architecture Center: What a waste
Until 29 October, the exhibition What a Waste deals with the solution to one of the most complex problems in the world: waste from industry and overproduction of new materials. You can discover different New Waste materials from the Danish industry and get inspired. How can these materials be used by designers, creatives, architects, and developers in the future?
London
V&A South Kensington: Prix Pictet Human, 2023.
The theme of the 2023 prize is “Human,” and it invites us to reflect on the experiences, feelings, relationships, and challenges that make up our collective existence. The twelve shortlisted photographers will exhibit their work at the V&A from 29 September.
London
The Design Museum: Skateboard
The first major exhibition in the UK to trace the evolution of skateboard design from the 1950s to the present day - a story of design, performance, and community evolving together. Around 90 rare and unique boards will be displayed alongside over 100 other objects from 20 October.
Ulm
Ulm Museum: Book presentation Ulm Stool
Dr. Martin Mäntele (head of the HfG archive and exhibition curator) and Christiane Wachsmann (exhibition curator) invite you to a book launch on 26 October. What do a circular saw, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, and Max Bill have in common? They all played a significant role in creating one of the most famous design classics of the 20th century. Hardly any object is more inconspicuous than the “Ulm Stool,” yet none has attracted more attention.
Weil on the Rhine
Vitra Design Museum: Iwan Baan. Moments of architecture
Iwan Baan is considered one of the most influential photographers of architecture and the built world. In impressive images, he documents the growth of global megacities as well as traditional or informal buildings and the works of well-known contemporary architects. From October 2023 to March 2024, the Vitra Design Museum will dedicate the first comprehensive retrospective to the Dutch photographer.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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