1 February 2022, 2 pm, online

»+dimensions« is developing new learning formats at the weissensee school of art and design berlin for hybrid learning spaces that are sensitive to issues of discrimination. Concerning the key areas of their research, the research team, represented by colleagues from all subject specialisms, invites external and internal stakeholders on several occasions during the semester.

To kick off the series of lectures, they have invited Florian Dombois. He is an artist and both professor and head of research into transdisciplinary studies at the Zurich University of the Arts. Dombois is concerned with wind, time, models, nature designs and musical kites. 

Interactive exhibition

17 to 23 February 2022, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin

What is digital sovereignty and how can it be designed? Students in the Department for Product Design at the weissensee school of art and design berlin together with students in the IT Department at the Freie Universität Berlin have explored this question as part of the interdisciplinary course »Coding IxD«. What has emerged are products that combine haptic design with digital functions. The Weizenbaum Institute is displaying these products in an interactive exhibition from 17 February 2022.

Performance, Net Art

27 February 2022, 5 pm to 7 pm, HAU4, online

With regard to the capitalist structures of the Internet, the students on the Spatial Strategies course are asking the question: Can artistic practices overcome economic, gender-specific and infrastructural barriers? And if so, how? What does artistic work in digital spaces mean if we assume that what is public needs to be cultivated at an individual and a collective level? As part of the five-month cooperation with HAU, project ideas have emerged that the students present on the research platform HAU4. They show performances, material in text, video and sound form, and social media interventions.

Exhibition

Open until 19 March 2022, RL16, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 16, Berlin

How do I function as a consumer? What things do I own? What is my attitude to my possessions and how do values emerge? What criticisms do I make of capitalism in its current form? What observations do I make and what feelings are associated with these observations? Students from all disciplines approach these questions in a variety of text and picture formats and from different points of view. The exhibition provides an insight into the thinking of future creators of art and design. The exhibition was conceived by Barbara Buchmaier, a lecturer in the Department for Theory and History.

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News bites

[Lecture] The series of lectures »jitsi bitsi spider« invites well-known representatives from the world of art and culture every month. On 2 February 2022, the guest speaker is Alain Bieber, director of the NRW-Forum and Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Klick here

[Project] Collaborating with students from all disciplines, Marina Naprushkina, who holds an endowed professorship at the weissensee school of art and design berlin, has initiated a project »Temporarily permanently #1« which aims to support imprisoned women in Belarus. Klick here

[documentary] In an interactive web documentary, Caroline Breidenbach, a master-class student at the weissensee school of art and design berlin, asks what has to happen for us to do more to protect water as our most important basis of life. Klick here