Dear readers,
We welcome the Berlin summer with a lot of bicycle ringing to show that we disapprove of the recently announced partial halt of the Berlin Mobility Law, which mandated measures to prioritize bicycles and public transportation over cars in Berlin’s transportation planning in the future.
Apart from that, we are looking forward to the IDZ excursion with Silke Ihden-Rothkirch to the Retrotopia exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, to which we cordially invite you on 11 July.
By the way, our exhibition of the winners of the German Ecodesign Award can be seen at designtransfer in Berlin until the end of July.
Hope to see you soon, many ringing greetings
Your IDZ Team
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IDZ Member of the Month
Prof. Matthias Ries
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Our member of the month July/August 2023 is the product designer and university lecturer Prof. Matthias Ries. After studying at the HfG Karlsruhe, he founded his studio in Berlin. He has been active in teaching for about ten years, currently as a professor at the HAWK in Hildesheim. Here he is primarily concerned with theoretical aspects of product design. He is currently researching with his students in the project “With a little help of AI friends” how artificial intelligence can be used as a tool in product design. By the way, you can get a good overview of what the HAWK's Faculty of Design has to offer from 4 to 6 August at the Werkschau.
Matthias Ries' ongoing Ph.D. at UdK Berlin investigates cultural memory and the collecting and accumulating of products throughout human history. He is interested in the selection criteria that play a role in archiving into material memory, and the extent to which gaps in cultural memory are created, or deliberately created, as a result.
Prof. Matthias Ries on the net
Studio Matthias Ries
Linkedin
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Matthias Ries' inspiration
Boris Groys: „Über das Neue” and „Logik der Sammlung”
You can find all of our "Members of the Month" on the IDZ website!
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IDZ Excursion with Silke Ihden-Rothkirch
Retrotopia – Design for Socialist Spaces
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Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces, Ausstellungsansicht, Kunstgewerbemuseum + Kulturforum 2023 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
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Together with Silke Ihden-Rothkirch, we invite you to a tour of the special exhibition “Retrotopia - Design for Socialist Spaces” at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin on 11 July. Eleven “design capsules” show design projects, many of them unknown, from former socialist countries in Europe, including former Yugoslavia. Curator Dr. Claudia Banz, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, had invited co-curatorial teams from Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Eisenhüttenstadt, Kyiv, Ljubljana, Prague, Tallinn, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, and Berlin to stage one contribution each for the public space and the private sphere.
IDZ member Silke Ihden-Rothkirch was involved in the project as co-curator and editor and will accompany the tour through the exhibition. In addition, you can look forward to a greeting from Dr. Banz, interesting visual axes, unusual constellations and impulses for further explorations, and a glass of wine afterward, to which we cordially invite you.
We ask for registration.
IDZ Excursion with Silke Ihden-Rothkirch
Retrotopia - Design for Socialist Spaces
Kunstgewerbemuseum am Kulturforum | Matthäikirchplatz | 10785 Berlin (Google Maps)
11 July 2023, 5 - 6 pm, followed by a little get-together with drinks.
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German Ecodesign Award 2023
designtransfer Berlin
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July offers the last opportunity to see the traveling “Thinking ahead” at designtransfer. The current nominated and award-winning projects of the German Ecodesign Award will be presented until 23 July, the last day of the annual UdK tour. After the summer break, the exhibition will travel to its final stop: Paris!
designtransfer
Universität der Künste Berlin
Einsteinufer 43-53 | 10587 Berlin
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UX Design Awards:
Deep Dives und Verkündung der Nominierten
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A whopping 544 participants from 54 countries submitted their projects for the UX Design Awards - Autumn 2023, and we are thrilled with this response! On 18 July, we will announce which submissions have been nominated to participate in the competition. We’ll keep our fingers crossed!
We also have two more #UXDA23 Deep Dives coming up in July, where we’ll be featuring winners from the last awards season. The interactive live presentations, followed by a Q&A session, will take place in English; they will be streamed live and free of charge on Linkedin and Zoom.
On 12 July, Christian Wehle and Andy Kozma will present the “Intelligent Road Management App” by vialytics. The app, which won the UX Design Award | Product 2023, helps municipal administrations save time and money and makes the daily work of municipal employees easier.
Deep Dive: Award Winners | Vialytics
Digitizing Road Management Services - The Intelligent Road Management App.
12 July 2023, 5 p.m. CEST.
More information and registration
On 26 July, Mark Scrivener and Sam Price of Momentum Design Lab will take us through the development process of their award-winning project, Bitstamp Go with MomentumIO. The redesigned mobile app for cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp is aimed primarily at a younger audience. “The app represents a true user-centered approach complemented by a well-designed user interface and appealing illustrations.” found #UXDA23 juror Laura Müller.
Deep Dive: Award Winners | Bitstamp / Momentum Design Lab
Making Crypto Trading Accessible to All - Bitstamp Go with MomentumIO
26 July 2023, 5 p.m. CEST.
More information and registration
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Pelin Celik:
HTW Berlin WORKSHOW 2023
Pelin Celik invites you! The Department 5 | School of Culture + Design of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin) celebrates its annual WERKSCHAU on 21 and 22 July. It opens the doors to all culture enthusiasts, prospective students, alums, professionals from the creative industries, and all residents.
DDC
New advisory board members
The Deutsche Designer Club (DDC) has a new advisory board team. Founded in 1989, the DDC is the leading club for designers of all disciplines in the German-speaking world. Already familiar faces of the DDC advisory board are joined by the new team members Georg-Christof Bertsch, Michaela, Kruse, Simone Leitenberger, Sylvia Leydecker, and Katja Lis.
Iondesign
Drinking water fountain
In mid-May, the drinking water fountain designed by Iondesign was connected to the Hamburg drinking water network. Once again, accessibility and inclusion were essential in this successful street furniture design, one of the reasons for which it was awarded the international design prize FOCUS OPEN 2023. Congratulations!
Andreas Koop
Call for submission - How to do less
How can “less” be designed? How can everyone have more, not just those who have too much anyway? How can we create more of what everyone really needs - and less of what no one lacks? If you have good ideas, apply by 10 August for one of two short presentations at the “Stadt.Land.Schluss.” symposium on 10 November.
German Design Council
Survey Value of Design
With a short survey, the German Design Council, in cooperation with the Institute for Design Research at the h_da University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, would like to investigate where and how design is anchored in German companies. Do designers in your company work on innovations or corporate strategies? Does design play a role in differentiation or transformation in your company?
SIBB
Call for donations: Laptops for Ukrainian school children
One hundred thirty thousand schoolchildren in the war-torn country need technical equipment. SIBB, in cooperation with its Ukrainian partner, the IT Ukraine Association from Kyiv, is calling for donations of used laptops. Please get in touch with Nadiia Synytsia, who is in charge of the collection point in Berlin and organizes the transport of the laptops to Ukraine.
UID
UX Trends
After 25 years in UX project management, UID takes time to take stock: Where does UX stand today? What is the future significance of UX in organizations? What challenges will companies face in building professional UX competencies? The three-part series “UX in Germany” shows the current situation of UX in Germany and how the UX market will develop from UID’s point of view.
Xinnovation
Science fiction as a source of inspiration?
Science fiction as a source of inspiration for innovation development. Sounds crazy? Find out together with the Xinnovations network. As part of the “Scifi4innovation” lecture and seminar series, the wealth of ideas in the art genre will be used to think about the future and develop digital innovations in concrete application scenarios. Board member Meike Ernst will give the introductory seminar lecture on 6 July.
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Museum of Decorative Arts at the Kulturforum
Design Talk MADE BY WOMEN
On 13 July, as part of the exhibition “Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces,” the Design Talk MADE BY WOMEN will take place, a tribute to women in architecture and design under socialism. The English-language talks and Q&A with Alyona Sokolnikova, Alla Vronskaya, Mary Pepchinski, Helena Huber-Doudová, Kaja Muszyńska, and Cvetka Požar will take place between 2 and 6 pm.
Museum of Prints and Drawings
WORLD FRAMED
The successful cooperation between the Kupferstichkabinett and the Ernst Schering Foundation will celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2023. On this occasion, the resulting collection of contemporary drawing art will be honored with a special exhibition. The collection comprises more than 130 works from the 1970s to the present by 30 top national and international artists. The opening will take place on 6 July.
Pergamon Museum
With brush and Qalam
With a solo exhibition of the most important contemporary representative of Sini calligraphy, the Museum of Islamic Art will be showing selected works by Haji Noor Deen in Berlin for the first time starting on 6 July. The exhibition will end on the occasion of the renovation-related closure of the Pergamon Museum on 22 October.
Various venues
Berlin Fashion Week
From 10 to 13 July, Berlin Fashion Week presents a high-profile program of fashion shows, exhibitions, and innovative event formats in the city’s iconic locations.
Werkbund Archive - Museum of Things
Farewell from Kreuzberg
The Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge will remain open until 5 November. After that, it’s time to say goodbye to Kreuzberg, as the museum is moving to a new location in Berlin-Mitte. The opening is planned for May 2024.
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
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Hamburg
MK&G Exhibition German Design Graduates
From 1 September to 8 October, the MK&G will present outstanding graduates from renowned German design and art colleges in product and industrial design under the title “Dare to Design.” The German Design Graduates 2023 exhibition provides an overview of the most current positions of young designers from Germany.
London
The Design Museum: Design Researchers in Residence - Islands
The program “Design Researchers in Residence” supports design researchers at the beginning of their careers for one year with a research project on a specific topic. In 2022/23, the focus is on “islands.” These are not considered in isolation but are defined by the connections that form at their edges: to seas and oceans, to their ecosystems, and other islands near and far. In this respect, they are presented as interdependent nodes in networks. The exhibition, which runs until 24 September, allows visitors to learn more about approaches to design research and discover new proposals for the future of design through films, drawings, and objects.
Munich
Die Neue Sammlung: Paula Scher - Type is Image
With “Type is Image,” Die Neue Sammlung continues its tradition of inviting influential contemporary designers to a site-specific installation. Paula Scher, who has been shaping graphic design with her innovative creativity for over five decades, has accepted this invitation with a walk-in show of her work. On view through 22 September, the exhibition features commissioned works from Scher’s early days to the present: from the look and feel of the Public Theater in New York to the campaign for Rockaway Beach following the destruction of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, to her interior and façade designs.
Paris
Galerie kreo: Konstantin Grcic - Transformers
Until 26 August, lamps and tables by Konstantin Grcic are on view at Galerie kreo under the title “Transformers.” Once again, Grcic reveals his never-ending fascination for a tangible industrial aesthetic. The title recognizably refers to a series of films featuring intergalactic robots that can transform into various creatures or objects.
Zurich
Museum of Design Zurich: Repair Revolution!
The design already decides how well an object can be repaired. In mechanical engineering, for example, maintenance and spare parts are integral to design practice, but in product design and architecture, they are the exception. There is another way! Repairing is no longer an emergency solution but a cultural, social, and economic practice that should be taken seriously and offers a counter-design to the throwaway society. Until 15 October, the exhibition presents the vision of a repair society and examines the role of design on the way to this goal.
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TOURS AND ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS
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In the coming weeks, the tours and annual exhibitions of the design and art faculties of many colleges and universities are coming up again.
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