Open House 2024 at Weißensee School of Art and Design

On July 20th and 21st, 2024, 12.00–8.00 pm, weißensee school of art and design berlin will open its studios for the traditional Open House. Also this year, there will be the opportunity to learn more about the design research projects and students' works developed during the previous year, some of them in cooperation with or in classes led by researchers of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«.

Among the exhibited projects with Cluster-related topics will be the following:

Shaping Water
Freiluftatelier Haus G 1. OG

The use of water shapes our everyday lives. Water fulfills diverse technical and socio-cultural functions in its myriad manifestations and places of use, each of which has given rise to specific forms of distribution, storage, display, and disappearance.
In the »Shaping Water« studio project, we examined and challenged civilizational standards, usage patterns, and experiences intending to rethink the medium of water and how we experience it. Through this exploration, we developed new interaction concepts and applications, brought to life in prototypes and exhibits that resonate with users on a tangible level.

This project, supported by the eLAB of KHB, was supervised by Cluster member Prof. Carola Zwick and Dominic Eger Domingos within the Design Research Studio of »Matters of Activity«.

What Matters
Exhibition Masterthesis Projects, Department Textile- and Material-Design
Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Sat & Sun 12-20h

including works supervised by cluster members Prof. Christiane Sauer, Prof. Dr. Karola Dierichs, Prof. Dr. Jörg Petruschat, Prof. Dr. Lucy Norris, Dr. Lorenzo Guiducci, Dr. Mareike Stoll, Nayeli Vega Vargas

Expanding:THE BODY - CodingIXD Interdisziplinäres Studioprojekt
eLAB Haus C EG

This year's semester project, »Coding IxD,« on the topic of »Expanding:THE BODY,« was supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn, Peter Sörries, and David Leimstädtner. Coding IxD is part of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« and a cooperation between the Freie Universität Berlin and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensse.

RAM - A data materialization experience.
Bachelor Thesis by Nofar Zeidenshnir
Flughalle, Haus C 4. OG

RAM delves into the dynamic relationship between humans and machines, using a sandbox interface to facilitate a wide range of interactions.
Supervised by cluster member Prof. Carola Zwick and Prof. Dr. Lucy Norris

deLIGHTful interactions | studio project
Ort: Flughalle, Haus C 4. OG

In the MoA Design Research studio project »deLIGHTful interactions« at weißensee school of art and design we investigated our cultural approach to technologies. As designers, we act at a crucial point between the preservation of traditional forms and rituals on the one hand and the enthusiastic embrace of new possibilities and technologies on the other.
Using the example of light, we explored how civilizational practices and rituals evolve when technological conditions change. Light offers itself as an exciting and, above all, highly graspable topic to illuminate this field of tension in an exemplary way. In the studio project »deLIGHTful interactions« we worked with light as an active material, having a wide range of technological possibilities at our disposal to develop meaningful and enjoyable interactions. Context of use, concept, and functional principles were translated into tangible prototypes and formed into adequate object and interaction qualities, allowing for new rituals to emerge.
The studio project is part of MoA Design Research Studio within Filtering and supervised by Prof. Carola Zwick, Simon von Schmude (eLAB), Olaf Thiele and Hans Illiger (Alela App). Workshops by Janja Maidl (colors and light) and Thomas Müller (haptic interaction)

Embodied Architectures | studio project
A2.03

This MoA Design Research studio project explored the process of designing embodied architectural objects at body scale through traditional basketry and movement-drawing techniques. The works presented show a collective assembly of embodied architectural objects with a diverse range of themes and applied techniques with new media. The project is supervised by Elaine Bonavia & Dr. Charlett Wenig.