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Your IDZ team
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IDZ Member of the Month
Prof. Anna Berkenbusch
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Prof. Anna Berkenbusch is a communication designer and works mainly in the cultural and social sectors. Until 2020, she was active in teaching, with professorships and guest professorships at various universities, most recently teaching communication design at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.
She is a member of the Federal Ministry of Finance Art Advisory Board for postage stamps and on various expert juries in Germany and abroad.
Anna Berkenbusch works with language and everyday culture, lectures, and publishes on visual and verbal communication topics. Her work has received numerous national and international awards.
She is a designer and editor/co-editor of publications such as “Denken und Gestalten,” “Denke Krieg,” “Geschlossene Gesellschaft,” and “Die 100 besten Plakate der Burg”;” her most recent book is “Alle Tage, Gestaltung für Menschen.”
All contributions to our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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Member Circle
Learning From Nature
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In cooperation with Tegel Projekt GmbH, we invite you to an exclusive Member Circle on the site of the former Berlin-Tegel Airport. We are looking forward to an exciting networking event with our members, former winners of the German Ecodesign Award, and members of the award's advisory board and jury.
We will be guests at the Berlin TXL Info Center, the innovation and network platform for sustainable urban development and urban technologies. Marija Marchuk and Stephanie Ambrosius-Groß will discuss the site’s redevelopment plans: How will the former airport become the Urban Tech Republic? What makes the Schumacher Quarter a pioneering ecological and social model project in Berlin?
Following this, Robin Hoske and Felix Rasehorn, founders of WINT DESIGN LAB based on the former airport grounds and winners of the 2023 Federal Ecodesign Award, will present their project “GOLD – Textiles from Collagen.” The subsequent Q&A session and joint get-together will provide opportunities for exchange and networking.
IDZ Member Circle “Learning from nature.”
Tegel Projekt GmbH - Infocenter Berlin TXL
Urban Tech Republic, Building V
Tegel Airport 1 | 13405 Berlin (Google Maps)
27 June 2024
Admission is from 3.30 pm, start at 4 pm
The event is exclusively for IDZ members. If you have any questions, please contact us at members@idz.de.
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UX Design Awards – Autumn 2024
Talent Track
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The UX Design Awards - Autumn 2024 submission deadline expired on 2 June. A total of 540 participants from 50 countries submitted projects. Now, the jury has its say. The nominees for participation in the competition will be announced on 18 July. The submission window for the UX Design Awards - Spring 2025 opens on 1 September - but you can already set up your profile for the first #UXDA25 round today!
On 26 June, you will have the opportunity to meet the young talents behind two of last season’s award-winning entries. Alina Danilyuk, winner of the UX Design Award | Public Choice, will introduce us to “Elsewhere with Apple,” an app that tackles the problem of contextual inaccessibility. Hyejeong Son, Seohyun Kang, Ujeong Ko, and Youngsun Roh from Sookmyung Women’s University show how they developed their New Talent Award-winning app, “Flowe.” The project aims to promote the well-being of menopausal women by encouraging them to stay active and emotionally connected.
Talent Track: Award Winners
A Medium for Meaning and Well-being
26 June 2024, 5 pm CET
Further information and registration
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German Ecodesign Award
New to the Advisory Board
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A warm welcome to the new advisory board members from the fields of architecture, textiles, and new materials, who support our panel of experts in the preliminary evaluation of the submissions:
- Dr Torsten Schröder from Eindhoven University of Technology, architect and Assistant Professor of Sustainability in Architectural Design.
- Prof Natalie Seng from Texoversum, Faculty of Textiles at Reutlingen University. She heads the Fashion & Textile and Material Design program.
- Prof Aart van Bezooijen from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. As a Professor of Material-Driven Design, he believes that materials are “important ingredients in moving us towards a more sustainable and fairer society.”
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Archimedes Exhibitions
Traveling exhibition Challenging Democracy
Archimedes has developed the interactive traveling exhibition Challenging Democracy for the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation. It invites visitors to debate, argue, and have their say. The exhibition shows democratic processes and the relevance of political decisions for the present and future generations. Although it focuses on Helmut Schmidt, it also highlights the importance of democracy, its crises, and the limits of freedom of opinion. After its first stop at the Paul Löbe House in Berlin, the exhibition travels to the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn and then to Leipzig and Rostock.
Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design
Finding a stance - Bauhaus and National Socialism
With the exhibition “Bauhaus and National Socialism,” the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is bringing a highly topical and long overdue subject to the public in 2024. At the same time, the museum “Forced Labour under National Socialism” will open in Weimar. What significance do these - initially supposedly historical - projects have today? What can they achieve, and where are their limits? On 11 June, the temporary bauhaus-archiv will host a discussion on exhibition and museum concepts with the Weimar protagonists Anke Blümm and Jens-Christian Wagner, as well as Annemarie Jaeggi.
Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte
Annual Conference
The GfDg annual conference “Textiles of success: the design of performance-enhancing clothing in sport, work and leisure” will take place on 14 and 15 June in Augsburg. Exciting contributions by Thilo Schwer, Franz Dietrich, Karin Thönnissen, Janina Baur, and many more can be heard at the Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum (tim) and will also be available later in catalog form.
Manyone
Successful Lufthansa pitch
Manyone continues its successful course: the team will advise Lufthansa Cargo on customer strategy and UX/UI design over the next three years and also design the new lounge experience at Düsseldorf Airport. After one and a half years of work on Lufthansa Cargo’s UX/UI design, Manyone has won the multi-stage digital sales pitch.
Scholz & Volkmer
How do you democratize democracy?
Using design to drive the necessary changes in our society is not exactly a topic discussed at the food truck or on the sports field. But it should be. That’s why Scholz & Volkmer, as part of the “Design for Democracy” initiative, has developed a website that presents this complex topic in an accessible way and explains it in a language that is easily understood everywhere.
wirDesign
New style guide for Bosch
With the new style guide for virtual and extended reality, wirDesign has transferred the essence of Bosch’s corporate design to the virtual world. The style guide enables Bosch employees to design customized applications with the look and feel of the brand. The digital space allows creative freedom by utilizing spatially basic corporate design elements.
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Bröhan Museum
PGH Glühende Zukunft
With the exhibition “PGH GLÜHENDE ZUKUNFT - ZEICHNUNGEN, PLAKATE, EIGENSINN. BERLIN 1989-1995 “, running from 13 June to 8 September, the Bröhan Museum will present the works of the artists’ group of the same name from the former GDR. Bold colors, bizarre figures, and rebellious humor characterize PGH’s versatile, socially and politically committed work. The exhibition is part of the museum’s series of important graphic designs and shows a creative examination of the social changes of the reunification period.
HTW Berlin
Long Night of the Sciences in Oberschöneweide
A varied program awaits you on the Wilhelminenhof campus of HTW Berlin in Oberschöneweide for the Long Night of Science on 22 June. The program ranges from an escape room on sustainability to a lecture on artificial intelligence and a solar consultation hour. There will be an interactive entrepreneurship exhibition on business start-ups and a pitch in the new coworking space at HTW Berlin. This night is also an invitation to discover, scrutinize, and learn together. After all, science thrives on curiosity and dialogue.
HTW Berlin
XR Art & Networking Event
Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality in the cultural and creative industries: the fifth XR Art & Networking Event will take place at HTW Berlin on 26 June. There will be inspiring short talks by high-caliber speakers, innovative XR projects from art and design, workshops, a coffee mobile right by the Spree, and plenty of time for discussions! With Artistic Research, Analogue Haptics, and Autonomous Avatars, the focus is on three current topics that will be explored in various formats at the interface of research, technology, culture, and the creative industry.
Neue Nationalgalerie
Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty
While Andy Warhol’s works of consumer goods and famous personalities have been widely disseminated, one theme has received little attention: Warhol’s continuous search for an image of his (mostly male) ideal of beauty and desire. From 9 June to 6 October, the Neue Nationalgalerie is putting together for the first time a significant overview that focuses thematically on this central aspect of Warhol’s various creative phases. The exhibition provides a comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the artist Andy Warhol, who never really “came out” during his lifetime.
Werkbund Archive
Profitopolis - architectural tour through the Otto Suhr Siedlung
After a 7-month closure, the Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge has reopened its doors at its new location at Leipziger Straße 54 in Berlin-Mitte. As part of the program accompanying the special exhibition “Profitopolis or the State of the City,” architect Steffen Adam will give a guided tour of the neighboring Otto Suhr Siedlung on 13 June. Since 2017, protests against the Deutsche Wohnen Group and its practice of increasing rents through “energy modernization” have occurred in the housing estate, which was built according to the principle of a loosened-up city.
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National and International
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South Tyrol
Vinschgau Venosta: By Design and by Disaster
The By Design and by Disaster conference will occur from 10 to 14 July at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, with an optional program on 13 and 14 July in Vöran-Verano. Since 2013, the event has brought together people and organizations from design, art, science, activism, and rural and urban development. The program includes lectures, workshops, walks, exhibitions, presentations, good food, music, dance, and exchange. The focus in 2024 is on “Power in Transformation”.
Ulm
HfG Archive: “al dente. Pasta & Design”
From hand to machine, from ceramic jar to outer space, from poster to commerce, from cooking pot to the museum, the exhibition “al dente. Pasta & Design,” which opens on 7 June, illuminates the many points of contact between pasta and design.
Hamburg
MK&G: Inner Structures - Outer Rhythms
The exhibition “Inner Structures—Outer Rhythms: Contemporary Arabic and Persian Graphic Design” at the MK&G presents current developments in Arabic and Persian typography. It features posters, videos, animations, murals, installations, books, and fonts by 33 designers and studios from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and the diaspora. The exhibition shows Arabic and Persian graphic design as equal currents that inspire each other and significantly contribute to the global design discourse.
Weil am Rhein
Vitra Schaudepot: Science Fiction Design. From the Space Age to the Metaverse
The fascinating dialogue between science fiction and design is the theme of the new exhibition at the Vitra Schaudepot. Over 100 objects from the collection are shown in a futuristic presentation by Argentinian artist and designer Andrés Reisinger, complemented by exhibits from film and literature. The presentation ranges from examples from the early 20th century through the Space Age of the 1960s and 1970s to design objects conceived for virtual future worlds in the metaverse.
Weimar
Bauhaus Museum: Bauhaus and National Socialism
The first exhibition on the subject of “Bauhaus and National Socialism” is on until 15 September. It illustrates the diverse ways in which artists dealt with a totalitarian system of rule.
Wermsdorf
Hubertusburg Castle: WaterSchool
Studio Makkink & Bey has been working internationally on “WaterSchools” since 2012. In Wermsdorf, this exhibition and an accompanying DESIGN CAMPUS summer school will be the first of its kind in Germany and the first to be developed in a rural area. Hubertusburg Castle will thus once again be the venue where the future peaceful use of resources will be negotiated. WaterSchool. A Speculation in Four Seasons runs until 13 October.
Vienna
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts: ICONIC AUBÖCK
The iconic design classics still handmade today by the Auböck workshop, now in its fourth generation in Vienna, were ahead of their time and characterized Austrian design across generations. Until 13 October, the ICONIC AUBÖCK exhibition focuses on the style-defining era of the interwar and post-war period through the experimental 1980s. It examines Werkstätte Auböck’s work through the lens of surrealism.
Vienna
designforum Vienna: Best of Austrian Design 24
Every two years, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy awards the State Prize for Design. In the 50th edition, a jury of experts selected 35 innovative and future-oriented projects in Consumer Goods, Capital Goods, Interior Product Design, Spaces and environment, and Design Concepts from 218 submissions. Their common denominator is pioneering progressiveness, social relevance, and sustainability as key issues of our time. The exhibition presents the award-winning projects until 3 July.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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