Dear readers,
A year with many great events and good discussions lies behind us. Just the day before yesterday, we celebrated the winners of the German Ecodesign Award 2023 at the Federal Environment Ministry. The twelve award-winning projects are good examples of how the transformation towards sustainable business and responsible consumption can succeed.
We look forward to continuing to contribute to this in the coming year through our work in front of and behind the scenes, together with our members and partners. It makes us happy and proud that the topics at the top of our agenda, eco- and experience design, are now on everyone's radar and connect people across borders.
We look forward to the new year with optimism and wish you peace, happiness, and good health!
Your IDZ Team
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IDZ Member of the Month
unyt.berlin, introduced by Julian Witte
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Our member of the month December 2023 / January 2024 is the design agency “unyt.berlin”, presented by its managing owner Julian Witte. unyt.berlin, a corporate member of the IDZ since 2021, specializes in the strategic and creative development of capital goods and high-tech systems. Despite the technological nature of the business, great importance is attached to sustainability in all developments.
Julian Witte originally joined as an individual member. The multi-award-winning industrial and graphic designer is also active as a member of a business angel association in Düsseldorf through his consulting and investment company “ARDEON”, has invested in two deep-tech start-ups and sits on the advisory board of a start-up for digital vehicle testing technology. Since September 2023, he has been teaching design, focusing on product design, as a substitute professor in the bachelor’s degree program at the MSD / Münster School of Design.
unyt.berlin and Julian Witte on the Net
Julian Witte's Inspirations
All contributions of our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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German Ecodesign Award 2023:
Twelve projects have been recognized!
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The winners of the German Ecodesign Award 2023 at the BMUV. Photo: Sandra Kühnapfel © IDZ
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The winners of the German Ecodesign Award 2023 show how the transformation towards more sustainability can succeed while taking design aspects into account. This year, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke and UBA Vice President Dr. Lilian Busse honored twelve pioneering projects with the highest state award for ecological design.
Further information, including films and short interviews on all the award-winning projects, can be found on the Award website.
The Call for German Ecodesign Award 2024 will be launched on January 22, 2024! Outstandingly designed, environmentally friendly, and forward-looking projects from across Europe can then once again apply.
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UX Design Awards
Deep Dive Diia App on 13 December
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The submission deadline for the UX Design Awards - Spring 2024 expired last weekend. A total of 412 participants from 53 countries submitted projects. Now the jury has its say. The nominees for participation in the competition will be announced as early as January 22, 2024. In the next step, all nominated entries will be subjected to another thorough examination by the jury teams in order to finally select the winning projects. #UXDA24 will enter its second round on March 1, 2024 – you can already pre-register for the competition today!
The next Deep Dive is scheduled for December 13: Slava Banik, Head of E-Services Development at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and Volodymyr Smyrnov, Design Director and Partner at Spiilka Design, will guide us through the e-government app Diia. Only a few countries successfully deliver their services digitally. The jury of the UX Design Awards has honored the Diia app with a special mention at the UX Design Awards 2023 because it already shows today how citizens and authorities could communicate with each other in the future.
Deep Dive: Award Winners | Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Diia App
December 13, 2023, 5 p.m. CET
Further information and registration
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A look back at two
successful events in November
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The design discourse on “Designing Beyond Crisis,” organized with our member Archimedes Exhibitions, provided plenty to discuss during Berlin Science Week. In an interactive fishbowl at the beginning of November, Nancy Birkhölzer, Prof. Dr. Felix Kosok, and Mara Recklies, among others, discussed with guests from the audience. Thanks to our great hosts, Archimedes Exhibitions and Prof. Carl Frech, for the charming moderation!
A week later, we turned our own workshop space in Markgrafenstraße upside down and transformed it into a shop. Many thanks to Lea Gleisberg for the great idea and the concept for the _SWAP clothes swap event and the entire IDZ team for the fantastic implementation. As the turnout was huge, we are planning another _SWAP event in the spring ...
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Alexander Wodrich
Why do Birds | Annual Review 2023
INFINITI, a luxury automotive brand, integrates Japanese art, design, and tradition into its vehicles and dealerships. To create an audio brand for INFINITI, the goal was to immerse themselves in Japanese culture and create a balance between the contrasts. Why do Birds also accompany Team D with customized motion branding and simple motion templates for the Olympic Games and beyond?
Eckedesign
Töppertour
1905, at the production peak, forty tile factories in Velten delivered 100,000 tiled stoves to Berlin and worldwide. Shortly afterward, central heating replaced the tiled stove, and the Velten factories produced building and decorative ceramics just as successfully and with the same technology. An impressive example: Industry creates prosperity with a creative spirit, social responsibility, and regional identity! You can now learn all about this on the first steles of the Velten Töppertour.
PHOENIX
Planet Edition for hansgrohe
hansgrohe's Pulsify hand shower uses less than six liters of water per minute, 60% less than the manufacturer's conventional showers. The handle is made of ABS, which is recycled internally at the factory in Offenburg, and the shower hose is made from recycled plastic bottles. Overall, hansgrohe's "Planet Edition" combines efficient showering pleasure, design, and sustainability. For this, hansgrohe and PHOENIX received the German Ecodesign Award 2023 - congratulations!
Peter Post
Circular Experience Library
The Circular Experience Library offers free UX design patterns based on (digital) circular economy use cases such as Refuse, Extended Use, Maintain, Re-Pair, Re-Use, Refurbish, or Recycle. It was designed for a better user experience in the circular economy. In addition, ideas for circular services can be set up quickly and inexpensively, and initial prototypes can be developed. The Circular Experience Library was awarded the German Ecodesign Award 2023. Our congratulations!
SIBB e.V.
One year after ChatGPT
The genie is out of the bottle, and there's no turning back. Most experts agree that AI will increasingly shape our lives. One year after the introduction of ChatGPT, Theobald Fuchs and Stefan Schaffer shed light on the direction in which AI is developing and the resulting consequences for us all. Are we moving towards an AI-driven utopia, or are we heading for a dystopian nightmare? Further information on the online event on December 7 can be found here.
The temporary bauhaus-archiv
Hands-on Nails
Nail studios are omnipresent in the cityscape. Nail design is now a natural part of many people's everyday lives. Fingernails are painted, artistically modeled, painted, and decorated. What is behind this phenomenon, which is not without its prejudices? Is nail design an art, a craft, or a service? With “Hands on Nails,” the temporary bauhaus-archive is devoting itself to the topic of nail art from an artistic, social, and economic perspective starting December 7.
Dear IDZ members: Send us your news – we will happily publish it here!
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Hamburger Bahnhof
Devouring Lovers
Eva Fàbregas presents a monumental, site-specific installation in the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof until January 14. The artist’s largest solo exhibition to date expands the boundaries of sculpture and invites visitors to a sensual spatial experience. Biomorphic sculptures transform the architecture of the museum hall, which is characterized by industrial iron girders, into an organically grown space.
House of World Cultures
Fragments of a geopoetics of northern Eurasia
With “As if we had buried the sun in the sea of stories” – an exhibition and research project in equal measure - HKW weaves an infinite fabric of narratives by artists, curators, writers, and connoisseurs of traditional cultural practices. The project traces the many worlds that existed side by side and together - from the Russian Empire to the USSR and today’s Russia. The exhibition can be visited until January 14, 2024.
Helmut Newton Foundation
Alice Springs. Retrospective
To mark the 100th birthday of June Newton, aka Alice Springs, over 200 of her photographs will be on display until January 21, 2024, in the “Alice Springs. Retrospective” at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin.
LAS Art Foundation / Kranzler Eck
Lawrence Lek NOX
The extensive exhibition NOX, which runs until January 14, deals with the psychological consequences of a future populated by smart systems and intelligent machines. Visitors are invited to discover the premises of the Farsight Corporation on three floors, where the fictitious artificial intelligence (AI) company trains and treats its self-driving, sentient cars.
New National Gallery
Icon in Motion
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is an icon and a media phenomenon. Baker’s artistic expressiveness and life achievements have become part of a collective memory and, at the same time, a cliché. From January 26, the exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie explores Baker’s facets and staging strategies in an audiovisual essay. It shows the unique nature of her dance style and her radiance on the screen - sensually, dramatically, and humorously.
TU Berlin Center of Entrepreneurship
Knowledge Hackaton: Design and Sustainability
On December 14, a top-class event on design and sustainability will take place. Together with experts from design and architecture, the transparent, living collection of the Knowledge Foundation, which collects and documents knowledge building blocks at the interface of design and architecture + construction, will be expanded. The knowledge database will then be available free of charge. Please register in advance.
Center for Contemporary Art
Cutting the Void
Asako Tokitsu and Andreas Schmid have jointly developed a comprehensive spatial staging for the ZAK, which, on the one hand, develops as a monumental calligraphic line in a combination of various anamorphoses and, on the other hand, inscribes itself into the exhibition spaces with three-dimensional, expansive installations. This double exhibition can be seen until January 7.
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National and International
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Bonn
Bundeskunsthalle: Everything at once: Postmodernism, 1967-1992
With spectacular examples of design, architecture, cinema, pop, philosophy, art, and literature, the exhibition, which runs until January 28, tells of the beginning of the information society, the unleashing of the financial markets, the great age of subcultures, disco, punk and techno-pop, shoulder pads and Memphis furniture. And of the boom in cultural temples, to which we owe the largest exhibit, the Bundeskunsthalle itself.
Frankfurt on the Main
Schirn: John Akomfrah. A space of empty
John Akomfrah (*1957) creates thought-provoking video works of haunting audiovisual intensity. On large-format screens, he tells of upheavals of the past and crises of the present. Until January 28, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt will dedicate the first comprehensive exhibition to the artist's impressive work, which has been little known in Germany to date, with a selection of three important, expansive multi-screen installations from recent years.
Helsinki & Online
Design Forum Finland: Towards regenerative growth
Design Forum Finland's pilot training program, Circular Design - a path towards the Circular Economy, is ending. The last training program event will take place on December 12 in Tiedekulma, Helsinki, as part of the World Forum for Circular Economy and can be attended online. The language of the event is English.
Helsinki
Design Museum Finland: Strategies for Moving Freely
Jenny Nordberg's first solo exhibition in Finland presents her insightful perspective on mass production, overconsumption, and the duty of designers to address these issues. Nordberg's works show humorous, consistently positive, solution-oriented approaches to severe problems. The exhibition can be seen until December 31.
Karlsruhe
Ulrike Rosenbach. today is tomorrow
On the occasion of her 80th birthday, the ZKM | Karlsruhe is showing a comprehensive exhibition of the work of media artist Ulrike Rosenbach until January 7. Ulrike Rosenbach was one of the first artists in Germany to use video in the early 1970s. In her works, she deals with questions of female identity, gender-specific role attributions, and the holistic relationship between man and nature.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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