Projects of the Design Department

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.

In the "sepulcrum" seminar, contemporary and biodegradable urns for humans or animals were designed in cooperation with the family business and urn manufacturer Völsing. In a final presentation with jury meeting at the Baumschulenweg crematorium, the best urn designs were awarded prizes.

A modular and underwired bra design for large breasts

As part of the European Month of Photography 2023, a collective exhibition of seven Berlin and Potsdam training centres in the field of photography was presented on the theme of ‘Urgent Present’ („Drängende Gegenwart“). 

Cooperation with the daily newspapers taz and UCLAB with the aim of conveying climate information via various channels using data visualisations. For this purpose, both physical and digital postcards with visualisations on different aspects of climate protection in Germany were designed and produced.

A story about open-cast mining in Germany and its victims

In her bachelor thesis, Julia Bohle deals with the personality trait of high sensitivity, both photographically and theoretically.

Proxemics (from the Latin proximare = to approach) is a book that deals with spatial constellations of communication or interaction partners in an experimental and photographic way.

Kathrin Wedler's bachelor's thesis is a textual examination of the many facets of a graphic element – the dot.

The exhibition at Lottenhof Potsdam posed the question of how the transformation of a place with reference to its past and future can be told in visual form.

Design of an individual rebranding for the manufactory "Die Eisfrau GmbH" in the communication design course at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.