Who we are and what we want

We come from design (in the diversity of its species), from the arts, from the natural sciences, life sciences and the humanities.

What unites us is the notion that everything that is called knowledge, at its deepest foundation, goes back to the formation of forms (Gestaltung) and related experiments.

With our designs and projects we show that in design and in the arts insights are produced which are irreplaceable and even special compared to other forms of knowledge.

We have come together in 2014 for this research group. Since then, we have been presenting our projects and designs at regular meetings and conferences, debating and developing them together, organizing publicity and promotion.

We reject the interpretive sovereignty of merely deconstructive sciences about the occasions, procedures, results of creative work. Instead, we simply design our own new theories that fit better with our aesthetic-practical experiments, i.e. those motivated by sensual experiences.

PERSONEN

Veronika Aumann
Textile Design & Research

Paula van Brummelen
Interaction Design

Kristin Dolz
Interaction Design

Ebba Fransén Waldhör
Textile & Surface Design

Judith Glaser
Interaction Design & Product Design

Marie von Heyl
Art & Theory

Anouk Hoffmeister
Interaction Design & Sociology

Silke Hofmann
Clothing Design Research / Womenswear

Hannah Koch
Textile Engineering

Agata Kycia
Architecture

Rebekka Lauer
Interaction Design

Prof. Dr. Jörg Petruschat
Theory and History of Design

Felix Rasehorn
Design Research

Maxie Schneider
Architecture

Anika Schultz
Interaction Design & Product Design

Natascha Tümpel
Graphic Design / Visual Art

Katja Marie Voigt
Art & Architecture

Babette Wiezorek
Product & Process Design

Empathy

by: Anika Schultz

Empathy

In the research project Empathy, Anika designs and explores patient-oriented clinical tools for long-term data collection to support chronically ill patients with tangible information during therapy. With these tools patients capture relevant data such as quality of life, pain experience, and distress. The goal was to provide the patient a variety of means of expression and to support a structured review of the illness experience by the patient and in doctor‘s consultations. Furthermore, she investigates the potentially added value through a digital development based on the analog tools. The tools are currently tested and evaluated within a study at the Charité. Design questions that result therefrom are: How well can individualized expression be handled in clinical practice? Do tools for tangible data collection and visualisation support finding a patient narrative?

Anika Schultz studied product design at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, majoring in interaction design. Since 2015, she has been a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her current work, she focuses on the design of communication strategies and tangible interactions in healthcare.