Event Reports
KISD Graduation 2008: phase08
The graduates are also being celebrated with a gala, a party and a great catalogue to honour them for their acquired competency, companionability, for personality, words and deeds.
As every tradition, this anticipates and depends upon the fact that the students of the sixth semester take on the organisation and execution of these activities, and in this, a productive cycle is achieved, allowing the graduates to reap the fruits of the seeds they have seen before.
This is the community spirit that characterizes KISD, and that, at the same time, is so important for design as a whole: the constructive resignation of egotism and the lone individual.
This spirit was one of the founding principles of the "Kölner Modell", a central goal of this new design education, fostering community, teamwork, openness, and discussion, in order to gather different characters and impulses into a productive whole, and consequently to teach and carry on this kind of synthetic competence.
Even then design has begun to define itself as an interventional and procedural practice that could, from an "in between" - of thoughts, actions or disciplines - build and transform interfaces, and this renew definition was then carries into current curriculum. Today this understanding seems to be consistently current, even forward-looking for design. And for exactly that reason, a KISD education is continually presenting itself in a new way, but always challenging and motivating. Not least, this provides the opportunity to become active in all kinds of interesting fields, and with this to profit from what has been learned.
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Further infos about KISD.
People Portraits
Prof. Peter Raacke: Designmai 07 Berlin
The perfect backdrop to visit Professor Peter Raacke in the Germanys capital.
Scene of the Crime: Sushi Circle & Haus am Waldsee
Weapons: Camera, microphone and many questions
© DS TV 2007, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
Event Reports
DS @ IMM 2008: Exhibitors
Take a quick tour through our DESIGNSPOTTER exhibition area and listen to our exhibitors voices
- it´s the easiest way to get an idea of what happens within a whole week of trade show ... and parties :-)
© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
City + Country Portraits
The Design Project: Paris, ENSAD
ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS
ENSAD was founded in 1767 and is now a fully fledged design faculty. The project team have been founded from different disciplines and have come together for the GLK project.
Event Reports
Design & Emotion
Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe present over 200 items detached from traditional classifications of function, style, materials.
This exhibition focuses on the visceral appeal of products and defines the popular concept of emotional design.
People Portraits
Sagmeister 08
"Things I have learned in my life", Stefan Sagmeister Show in SOHO/New York.
Watch out for the video, realized by HillmanCurtis film and video.
City + Country Portraits
GreenPix Documentary
GreenPix: 2,200 sqm LED media wall powered by solar panels. Alexandra Lerman published a documentary about the GreenPix on which Simon Giostra, founder of Simone Giostra & Partners, explains the challenge to design and build this gigantic media wall, with the help of engineering experts ARUP.
People Portraits
Design + Emotion: Manfred Gotta
Twingo, Megaperls an Smart - Manfred Gotta is Germany´s name inventor number one.
See the interview (in german) in the course of the Design + Emotion exhibition of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe.
City + Country Portraits
KaBoom! by PES
If every war would be like this it would rain flowers instead of bombs.
take a look at their site: www.EatPES.com
Event Reports
PREVIEW imm cologne 09: Trend Board + trend book
The latest trend book edition for the imm cologne features the Interior Trends for 2009. The overwhelming response received in previous years demonstrates that this annual book provides a detailed reference work not only for exhibitors, visitors and journalists...
© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
Event Reports
Chris O´Shea: Audience
Audience, conceived by rAndom International, is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects. Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behaviour. Some chat amongst themselves, some shy away and others confidently move to grab your attention.
