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I AM
a design ethnographer interested in the built environment and how communities make sense of a world in change.
Currently, i am researching at the Academy of Art an Design Basel and doing a PhD at Leuphana University Lüneburg. 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?


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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