Projects of the Design Department

Under the direction of Wiebke Loeper, students from the Department of Design presented their photographic work as part of the exhibition "The opposite of fear is courage" at the Kulturhaus Wittenberge in November 2024.

Exchange programme for students and teachers within the framework of the DAAD ISAP programme

The exhibition ‘Drängende Gegenwart - Fotografie als Forschungsinstrument’ and ‘Drängende Gegenwart - textiles in transit’ combines photographic and textile works. The exhibition opening took place on the 6^th of June 2024. The exhibition itself was on display at the Luckenwalde branch until the 27^th of June 2024.

The aim of the project, which is subsidised by the European Regional Development Fund, is to set up an interdisciplinary test and experimental environment for social robots.

In this project, students from the Departments of Civil Engineering and Design are designing and building concrete boats to compete against teams from all over Germany at the concrete canoe regatta in Brandenburg an der Havel in June 2024.

Participatory design as a means of participation and understanding to counteract social division.

"Hyperimages – Visual Ecology of Urban Environments" is a research project between the University of Strasbourg in France and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in Germany.

Hannah Zint's bachelor's thesis deals with the question of how photography can contribute to the recovery from trauma.

Design solutions for communication in educational institutions

The exhibition showed photographic works that dealt with the societal and social challenges of the present day. It was on display from the 12^th of July until the 8^th of September 2023 at the Brandenburg State Parliament in Potsdam.

Morari (Latin for linger) is a six-part urban furniture series developed in collaboration with Jesse Altmann, Valentina Lenk and Klara Schneider, which questions the comfort at bus stops using Potsdam as an example.

In collaboration with photographer Frédéric Brenner and his international project team, the GraDiM research project is developing theoretical and technical concepts for the visualisation of a photo archive with particular sensitivity for a collection documenting the Jewish diaspora.