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Dear readers
What are the topics that our graduates concern themselves with? What drives them? And what visions do they have for the future? On our new YouTube channel you can now look over the shoulder of our graduates and watch them at work.To launch our series of portraits we are presenting to you: Ximena Ferrer Pizzaro, who completed her studies as a master student under Professor Friederike Feldmann in the Department of Painting in 2023 and has just been awarded an Elsa Neumann Scholarship; and Jasmin Sermonet in the Department of Textile and Material Design, who is developing an open source knitting machine as part of her master’s thesis.
With a second series of videos, we also want to give you an insight into our workshops and laboratories. In a short documentary about our gravure printing workshop, its artistic head Petro Boese demonstrates a fascinating, centuries-old skill: etching. And in a soon-to-be-released short film by the Federal Competence Center for Cultural and Creative Industries, you can get to know our soft rapid prototyping lab as well as the many and various applications of classic and experimental rapid prototyping processes. Subscribe to our channel and from now on you will regularly receive new insights into research, teaching and emerging career paths with our videos.
Of course, we also want to get you away from the sofa with interesting live experiences and to invite you into the university to exchange ideas. In our series of public lectures “see – ander(e)s sehen”, newly appointed professors will once again be providing insights into their work. And our series “IM FOKUS” is set to continue with renowned stage and costume designers. Finally, before we get onto the home straight and head towards our Open Day Tours (20 and 21 July), there are also some exhibitions to see. For example, “here, there” in May. For further information, please see below.
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here, there
The exhibition “here, there” presents works by ten students in the Departments of Painting and Sculpture on the topic of autobiography. Using videos, installations, paintings and other media, it gives space to personally narrated stories and interweaves these stories from a variety of perspectives. Despite the very different biographies and transnational identities of the individual artists, the exhibition brings together individual stances in such a way as to create a collective experience. “here, there” opens at 6 pm on 24 May 2024 in the KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße and runs until 31 May.
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Intuitive Material and Social Textile Studies
How do innovative, sustainable and pioneering designs, ideas and perspectives on textile materials emerge? Nadine Göpfert was newly appointed to the weissensee school of art and design berlin in 2023 as professor in the Department of Textile and Material Design. Her work covers creative direction, design and consultancy for interiors, products, art and fashion in the field of textile and material design. As part of the series of public lectures “see – ander(e)s sehen” (“Look at things differently and see something new”), she will provide insights into her teaching approach and her practical work as a textile designer at 5 pm in the assembly hall of the university on 15 May 2024.
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IM FOKUS
The Department of Stage and Costume Design is continuing last semester’s series of lectures “IM FOKUS” and has once again invited outstanding stage and costume designers from theatre and film to present their creations and ways of working, and to enter into dialogue about this with students and all other interested parties. On 16 May, the guest presenter will be Christian Schmidt. This stage and costume designer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Erich Wonder and has received numerous awards. Regular collaborations associate him with the directors Amélie Niermeyer, Clau Guth, Yona Kim, Christof Loy and Christian Spuck.The focus of his work is musical theatre.The lecture begins at 5.30 pm on 16 May 2024 in lecture theatre C1.05 at the weissensee school of art and design berlin.
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Introduction to art therapy
The course of studies in art therapy is organising a seminar at the weissensee school of art and design berlin from 7 to 9 June that will offer an initial grounding in the therapeutic applications of art. It is aimed at people who are in pedagogical, psychological, psychotherapeutic, medical, artistic or design professions and want to learn more about this field of work. A further target group is people who, in principle, are interested in studying art therapy and working professionally in this field. In lectures, workshops, and with examples from therapeutic practice and elements of self-awareness, the participants will become familiar with psychodynamically orientated art therapy and will obtain a rich and varied impression of this type of work.
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Young Designers Award 1&20
Juni Sun Neyenhuys, a former student in the Department of Textile and Material Design, has won the Young Designers Award 1&20 from the German Design Council with her project “Designing the Afterlife”. We offer her our congratulations. Organically based, biodegradable packaging has seldom been used up to now because, in the current waste management infrastructure, it cannot be disposed of in a way that is free of residues. “Designing the Afterlife” develops algae-based packaging which really closes the biological material cycle within the existing waste management infrastructure. This means water-soluble packaging for solid cosmetic products that can be disposed off via waste water and that biodegrades completely in a sewage works.
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Young Designers Award 1&20
Moritz Walter, a former student in the Department of Product Design, has won a Young Designers Award 1&20 for his project "HOTSPOT". We offer him our congratulations. Because fossil fuels do not offer long-term prospects, and traditional heating systems do not adequately meet individual needs, the project explores the possibility of decentralised, electricity-based heating. By means of small zones of warmth in a room, heating becomes more comfortable and more efficient. The range of products developed by Moritz Walter include a heating panel for generating heat across a wide area and mobile, modular heat storage vessels for individual warmth. These products are able to respond flexibly to individual needs and can be integrated seamlessly into the interior designs of rooms.
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Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium
Ximena Ferrer Pizarro, master student in painting, has won an Elsa Neumann stipend with her project ‘All the times I wanted to be white’. We offer her our congratulations. She says of her project, on which she will be working until the end of 2024: “‘All the times I wanted to be white’ is a project that speaks of vulnerability and our deepest colonial wounds, about how many people aspire to whiteness and its associated privileges, sometimes without realising it. I believe that recognising these aspirations is a painful but necessary step along the path of unlearning certain historical patterns. I can hardly wait to be in the studio and work on this project, which I have been wanting to do for so long now!”
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