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a design ethnographer and research maker cultures in times of polycrisis. In my PhD at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organisation at Leuphana University Lüneburg, I explored urban living labs in the rural areas of North-Eastern Germany and investigated how they mobilise design as an agent of eco-social change. I have a background in integrative design, experimental typography and media studies.
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Co-Lab
Design Research
2020-2021
GENERAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Design processes, most of all collaborative ones, need elaborate and well-designed digital tools for their support. Project-based design education should especially foster an experimentation with one’s own way of working, with design processes and forms of collaboration. Existing software tools from notetaking apps to visual online boards, file sharing services to project manangement suites often don’t meet the demands of experimental design processes. More often than not they are oriented towards commercial project structures, impose too constrained ways of working, or are based on too simplified notions of creative practice and collaboration.
How could design processes be better represented, documented and shared?
How could the collaboration in projects be fostered by digital tools?
How does our ideal design collaboration tool look like?
Workshops
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Paper Prototypes
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Digital Tool
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This one-year pilot project sets out to develop a digital tool that is tailored to better support collaborative design practices, especially in the context of design education. Together with students of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel, we study situated design processes to explore possible approaches, scopes and requirements for such new collaborative tools. Based on these findings we further experiment with forms of visualization and interface concepts. In this way, over the course of a series of workshops, a design concept is refined to be realized in a prototype.
The project is an initiative and part of the research project Commons in Design.
Design processes, most of all collaborative ones, need elaborate and well-designed digital tools for their support. Project-based design education should especially foster an experimentation with one’s own way of working, with design processes and forms of collaboration. Existing software tools from notetaking apps to visual online boards, file sharing services to project manangement suites often don’t meet the demands of experimental design processes. More often than not they are oriented towards commercial project structures, impose too constrained ways of working, or are based on too simplified notions of creative practice and collaboration.
How could design processes be better represented, documented and shared?
How could the collaboration in projects be fostered by digital tools?
How does our ideal design collaboration tool look like?
Workshops
Paper Prototypes
Digital Tool
This one-year pilot project sets out to develop a digital tool that is tailored to better support collaborative design practices, especially in the context of design education. Together with students of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel, we study situated design processes to explore possible approaches, scopes and requirements for such new collaborative tools. Based on these findings we further experiment with forms of visualization and interface concepts. In this way, over the course of a series of workshops, a design concept is refined to be realized in a prototype.
The project is an initiative and part of the research project Commons in Design.
FHNW Basel
Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures / Institute Integrative Design
Collaborators
Dr. Christine Schranz
Moritz Greiner-Petter
The project Co-Lab is carried out with the support of Students from HGK, and funded by “FHNW Lehrfonds”.
☞ ECHO Tool
☞ Documentation on IXDM
Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures / Institute Integrative Design
Collaborators
Dr. Christine Schranz
Moritz Greiner-Petter
The project Co-Lab is carried out with the support of Students from HGK, and funded by “FHNW Lehrfonds”.
☞ ECHO Tool
☞ Documentation on IXDM