Projects of the Design Department
BICENTENNIAL CAMD.COM [S]
Additive manufacturing in the product design of user-specific bicycle components using the example of a bicycle saddle.
Reading Traces: Visualising Fontane's Reference Library
Research cooperation with the Theodor Fontane Archive Potsdam
Close-Up Cloud: An Experimental Visualisation for Exploring Image Collections
The Close-Up Cloud introduces a visualisation approach that challenges the separation of overview and detail. For this, the iconographic details of images are summarised to reveal visual patterns in a collection and to stimulate exploration through the holdings.
PKKB: Postdigital Art Practices in Cultural Education – Aesthetic Encounters between Appropriation, Production and Mediation
Research into post-digital art scenes, their spaces of practice, appropriation and reception, and the development of artistic-aesthetic mediation concepts for cultural education in exchange with the research practices carried out.
Design History reloaded using the Example of "Women Designers of Modernism" A joint Project of the Departments of Design and Information Science
This project honours the outstanding achievements of women in design during the Weimar Republic and presents the student results of several InterFlex seminars on women designers of modernism.
SENSES – Applied Climate Scenarios: Perspectives and Options for Action
The SENSES project translates complex scientific climate scenario information into relevant knowledge for different user groups.
Visualisation of Bibliographic Data and Content
Cooperation with the German National Library to research interactive visualisations of a comprehensive bibliographic collection
COINS: Visualisation of a Numismatic Collection
In this project, we explore the potential of dynamic arrangements of a comprehensive coin collection based on different facets such as origin, material type, period, weight and size. The resulting layouts push the boundary between the physical display of coins and the representation of abstract data patterns that characterise the collection.
Design "0̶8̶1̶5̶ "
In the "Design nicht 0815" project, the curricula of the design degree programmes at FH Potsdam are being further developed with the aim of integrating central competences for the digitally shaped world of work.
VIKUS: Visualisation of Cultural Collections
As part of the Visualisation of Cultural Collections project, graphical user interfaces for the interactive viewing of cultural objects are being researched. In co-operation with an innovative company in the field of media databases and a cultural institution with historically significant collections, scenarios and techniques for the visual exploration of cultural collections are being developed.
Schrankhaus – Tiny House
As part of an Interflex project, students of Product Design and Urban Future explored, developed and depicted future living spaces.