MARINA ACKAR [v]
INSTANTmagazine

This project is a magazine that presents young labels from Greater Frankfurt as they grapple with the theme of clothing. Labels and designers are shown in photo series and interviews. In addition to the work of fashion designers, the work of a puppet seamstress and a firm of architects are presented.
The magazine is made available in a few limited locations in Frankfurt and also published on the Web at
www.instantmagazin.de

Prof. Frank Schumacher
-photography
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

CAROLIN ALBAN [v]
Scanworld

This work is an installation of thirty-six cardboard figures (2D) ranging from 30 x 40 to 90 x 165 cm. They consist of scans of everyday mass-produced items like sponges or buttons that give rise to individual characters in a wide range of combinations.
There is also a set of postcards and a book. An accompanying text tells the story of the flight of the figures from the “Digi Tal” (“Digi Valley”).
This work refers to our relationship to the mass media in general and to technological gadgets in particular. For technology opens up new freedoms for people and yet it also makes us dependent.

Prof. Friedrich Friedl
-typography
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

CATRIN ALTENBRANDT
& ADRIAN NIESSLER [v]
Mountain Air

The work takes place in a wonderful utopian mountain world, which is reminiscent of the legendary Himalayas. This paradise is inhabited by a busy nation of mini-people, who love sports and entertainments. They try to climb the hills, they speed around in three-dimensional roller coasters, and they set off on exhibitions to explore their paradise or to exploit natural resources. On a closer look, the mountain range turns out to be a sleeping creature.
Mount Everest is the model for this mountain world. On this mountain things happen that make the scenes on the pictures here no longer seem so utopian.

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Klaus Hesse
-conceptual design
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

LENKA BABICOVÁ [v]
Corporate Design for Ventil
Publishing House

The goal was to create a visual identity: a design system that could be varied and unproblematically applied to various book series and subjects and yet was consistent enough to be recognizable.
The Ventil publishing house offers unconventional, critical, and true-to-life literature. The look reflects this alternative character. The use of beige cardboard conveys proximity to everyday life and people.
The designs are for a nonfiction series and a series of small-format novels whose covers can be folded out to accommodate larger illustrations. In addition to a logo, business cards, and letterhead, a list of publications was designed. Its cover is a folded poster that can be hung after the list has been removed.

Prof. Dieter Lincke
-freehand drawing and illustration
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

PAUL-FRIEDRICH VON BARGEN [v]
To Go Home with a Fat Dog

This is a film about fate, love, and devotion. It describes a kind of feeling that everything is glued together to form a broad pattern, a system within which parts merely bump up against one another. Specifically, it is about the perception of inside and outside as states separate from each other and of oneself as either the object of a distanced environment or as the subject of relationships assessed in different ways.

Prof. Mariolla Brillowska
-freehand drawing and illustration
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

ELLEN BAUER [v]
I Love Shanghai/Wo ai Shanghai

Zhang Da designs fashion; Song Tao creates video art; Perk illustrates the jungle of the city. My thesis project is a book presenting the artistic culture of the city of Shanghai. I found inspiration for it in traditional Chinese design. This work is my very personal interpretation of dynamic present-day Shanghai, with its fashion, design, and subculture. During a stay of several months in China, I discovered and researched the scene of this booming metropolis. With my project I hope to inspire readers to make their own voyages of discovery to Shanghai, the “city above the sea.”

Prof. Friedrich Friedl
-typography
Prof. Dr. Christian Janecke
-art history

NADJA BAUERNFEIND [v]
The City as Networked Cosmos

My theoretical diploma thesis project concerns the evolution of a metropolis using the example of Paris in the middle of the 19th century under Prefect Haussmann and Napoleon III.
In my drawings, I try to render gesturally and expressively the flowing, seething, and roaring of today’s metropolis. My interest in so doing is my real environment, especially the dynamic of getting sucked up by the organism of the city. My artistic stance is ambivalent, marked by a fascination with being exposed, fear, pleasure, and disgust. I play technology against rampant growth, the smooth against the organic thicket. The powerful shifts and the processes inherent to construction sites are just as thrilling. I react to the currents that sweep us along, to the pulse and tumult in which cars and people are barely sensed, and I convert all of this into many nervous strokes and vibrating layers of lines. For the beautiful line excites and inspires me.

Prof. Dieter Lincke
-freehand drawing and illustration
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

KEVIN BECKER [p]
Endorfin

This project is a combination of flippers and functional bathing trunks that aims to optimize a swimmer’s performance.
Kinetic energy generated by the swimmer’s movements is captured and stored and ultimately returned to the swimmer’s body.
This is achieved via the elastic bands integrated in the product, which are alternately stretched and relaxed by the swimmer’s movements.
As a result the swimmer is able to swim with greater strength and more quickly. He or she can also swim for longer periods of time and with a greater degree of control. Stamina and safety also increase.
Endorfin can be used in popular sport, and also, by using the increasing resistance of the elastic bands, as equipment for muscle training.
Life-guards might also benefit from the boost in performance offered by this product.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

MICHAEL BENNETT [v]
Border Area

Portraits from Heiligendamm in spring 2007...

Prof. Frank Schumacher
-photography
Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

FALK BLÜMLER [p]
The Velavis Flyke

Velavis is a flyke—a relatively new mobility concept that is a cross between a recumbent bicycle and a motorized paraglider. It combines the advantages of each of these forms of transport, thus offering the pilot a new dimension in mobility and independence.
For the first time in the history of aviation, the Velavis flyke, which falls into the category of ultra-light aircraft, allows ambitious hobby pilots to move through the air and on the ground with one and the same vehicle and thus remain mobile after landing.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation

MERYEM BOUCHEQIF [v]
Mixing I – VI

We can encounter the world in different ways. The distance senses of vision and hearing that are favored in our society produce a distanced knowledge. Separated from the world, we can control and observe it well. But this alone cannot satisfy human beings, since distanced knowledge does not do complete justice to the complexity of their existence or to things.
Our sense of taste associates flavors perceived with pleasure, lust, loathing, and disgust. When we taste, we feel an impulse coming from outside and react to it. The mixing of inside and outside when tasting produces an awareness of the self and of the world it encounters.
Hence the mixing of world and self when tasting produces knowledge, information, discovery. We seek out this closeness that we need as gourmets, for example. By mixing with the world, by absorbing it—that is to say, through our bodies—we perceive it without distancing ourselves.

Prof. Manfred Stumpf
-conceptual drawing and life drawing
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

MARCUS BRANSCH
& ULRIKE GOLL [v]
Cascade

This work is a real-time virtual-reality installation that uses 3D stereo projection to create a virtual landscape of one square kilometer. In this environment, competing systems emerge and attempt to spread out across the entire area, displacing neighboring systems in the process. An algorithm continually calculates the spreading patterns of the competing systems, causing the 3D environment to transform constantly. An enormous complexity develops in this environment over the course of its life: forests appear and disappear again. Entire neighborhoods, industrial zones, and strips of desert are created in the real-time calculations. From time to time, weather phenomena such as cloud formation, rain, snow, and wind develop and can become extreme. The cards are constantly reshuffled, as the world of Cascade never stops regenerating itself. Users navigate the ever changing landscape interactively using a Wii remote.
www.kaskade-projekt.de

Prof. Bernd Kracke
-electronic media
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

JOSIP BUDIMIR [v]
Labyrinth

This book is about making the impassable passable, focusing on music and youth culture, illustrated by means of typography, graphic art, and photographs.
Readers can leaf through the various parts this 30-meter-long folder much like watching a film. Labyrinths are places of concentration, and their path is fixed, unlike mazes.

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

ANNA CRUSE [v]
Memory as a Trace of the Past

This work is a series of smallish interventions in public space. The new landscapes are intended to alter the way chance observers look at ordinary things, to make it more intense, and ideally to create a memory.

“The mind is given landscapes that it is only permitted to observe for a time.” (Marcel Proust)

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Burghart
-language and aesthetics

ALEXANDER DEY [v]
Untitled

“Anyone asking about the truth desires to become familiar with a difficult aspect of life.
Those seeking truth are certainly prepared to encounter abysses. Knowing the abysses reduces the risk of falling into them. The search for truth is by nature something that builds trust: the restoration of a sense of security, even if only in a makeshift way.” (Rüdiger Safranski)

Prof. Frank Schumacher
-photography
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

JULIA DIEL [v]
Campaign for Biodiversity

Biodiversity is considered a prerequisite for a functioning ecosystem, and human beings are only capable of surviving in such an ecosystem. The widespread extinction of species is thus a threat to our own existence. In general, however, people have yet to realize this. This campaign is designed to change that. In order to speak especially to people with little interest in environmental protection, the threat is discussed in terms of society. Politics, sports, music, and entertainment all work—just as nature does—only thanks to the uniqueness and the diversity of their protagonists and the interplay between them. When these groups are stripped of their diversity, this demonstrates the fatal consequences such one-sidedness can have and how important it should be for the future to protect biodiversity.
www.schuetzt-biologische-vielfalt.de

Prof. Klaus Hesse
-conceptual design
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

REINHARD DIENES [p]
Plastic-Fantastic

From material to product.
Taking material as the starting point for design: using, emphasizing, and turning the unique characteristics of a material into a design feature.
The chair made of flexible plastic (PP) is produced from a flat, milled component which varies in thickness. The surface is stretched and compressed to form a closed, stable system. This is the only way of creating the form of the furniture, transforming it from a two-dimensional component to a three-dimensional chair. By using plastic the chair does not sustain any material fatigue from being bent and sat upon.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

XENIA DREBES [v]
In Search of the Little Dwarf

The self-willed search out and question their own meaning; they “wander on their own, untrodden paths.”
(Margrit Irmgard)

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

IGOR DUBYAGO [p]
Light Fencing

In my practical diploma project I explored the idea of making fencing a popular sport. My intention was to design hobby fencing equipment that would allow people who have not fenced before to become acquainted with fencing in their free time in the form of a game and later maybe to practice this sport in a professional capacity. Light fencing consists of a mask, a weapon, and a protective vest. The basic form of the mask is a sheet of Makrolon glass. The vest is made out of a sturdy 3-D material with a sensitive outer layer made of photonic fabric. In a passive state the edge of the target area is lit up in red or green. If the fencer touches this area then the exact touch point in the vest lights up and the touch is also signaled acoustically. One touch counts as one point. The total number of points are added together and shown in the target area.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

PATRICK EHLERS [p]
Argus

The volume of rail transpor-tation is expected to rise as a consequence of air space and roads being so overcrowded. The burden on the railroad network will also increase as a result. A measuring train will inevitably be needed to establish the extent of necessary maintenance work.
Argus is a driverless measuring train, designed to collect data from railroad tracks and the surrounding area. It can be smoothly integrated into the existing railroad system thanks to its high maximum speed and long-range capacity, thus simplifying route inspections. All data ga-thered is registered via ultra-modern analytical systems. Further uses for the system are also conceivable, such as in safety issues on certain sections of track.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Hans-Georg Kasten
-academic advisor

SANDRA ELLINGER [v]
Bounding

Viewers enter a circle that is composed of nine pedestals. On each pedestal, there is a monitor with a face. They are pointed at one another to form a circle. Each monitor shows a face of a different age shot in the same frame size. The faces come and go at different speeds. After a time, each face switches into all the other faces in rapid succession until finally returning to itself. Each face is associated with its own sound, resulting in a high noise level that rises and falls. The noise comes and goes as the individual faces fade in and out.
The installation demonstrates the flood of stimuli that we cannot escape in today’s society. We constantly take in enormous numbers of impressions that can evoke uneasy feelings. The viewers are confronted with precisely such feelings when standing in the middle of the installation.

Prof. Bernd Kracke
-electronic media
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

ANNIKA FLEISCHMANN [p]
Organic Packaging!

This innovative packaging for certified organic milk is made of biodegradable thermoplastics and is designed to illustrate the natural quality of the product.
The special challenge in this context is to combine material properties with function. The cap functions according to the principle of material tension. To open the carton the tension is released, to close it again the tension is restored. A freshness gauge integrated into the packaging material tells the consumer whether the milk is still fresh. When the milk turns sour, the freshness gauge changes color.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

OLIVER FLÖSSEL [v]
Helden mit Beinkrone

Prof. Adam Jankowski
-painting
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

VANESSA FUENTES [v]
perhaps mornings

mornings arose out of my grappling with the subject perhaps.
I wanted to show the legerity and openness hidden in the undecided “perhaps” in order to emphasize it over decided positions.
The morning embodies this legerity and openness in a self-confident and natural way familiar to everyone.
Whether waking up, preparing the day’s agenda, beginning the day or ending the night, the morning is a transitional phase that expects something new.
These pictures are intended to show how unremarkable and delicate yet full of life these moments are.

Prof. Frank Schumacher
-photography
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

MAURICIO GARCIA [v]
Alexander Magazine:
The Luxury Issue

Planning and design of a magazine form men with interviews. First number on the special theme of luxury.
Warm water, Dom Perignon Rosé, naked skin, mink fur, coffee in the morning, a glass of heavy red barrique-riped wine with flavors of pepper and chocolate, my bed, Versailles. These are some of the answers to the luxury questionnaire that was the starting point for this magazine.
Luxury is relative and thus dependent on how you look a it—whether from inside or outside, from the front or from the back. Alexander is interested in the last of these ways of seeing.

Prof. Klaus Hesse
-conceptual design
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

ELKE GERLACH [p]
Vivesco Orbita

Vivesco Orbita is a design concept for public space in the new city district that is to be built around the Offenbach harbor in the next few years. Vivesco Orbita is Latin for “bring the tracks to life.”
Vivesco Orbita consists of three elements: benches, paving, and railings, which together form what might be described as a “seating landscape” made up of stylistically matching components.
The site where the three elements are to be located—the land side of the quay wall— marks the place where ships used to dock. The location of the bench, which consists of four separate bench modules, and the strips of paving made up of rectangular stones mark the place where the tracks of the harbor railroad used to run.
The design concept Vivesco Orbita makes the tracks, once an important feature of the Offenbach harbor, into the “heart of the harbor,” thus recalling the unique character of the harbor and its place in the history of the city.

Prof. Siglinde Spanihel
-furniture design and products
in public spaces
Dipl. Des. Martin Krämer
-history of design

LARA ALEXANDRA GLÜCK [p]
Apple-Appeal

The aim of my diploma project is to encourage citizens of Frankfurt to lease an orchard meadow. To do this I designed several events to be held over the year devoted to the theme of orchard meadows. The events will be staged in and around an events cabinet and accompanied by an installation in the trees.
The events cabinet, whose form is derived from the historic Frankfurt “Ecknasen” cabinet and its color from the “Frankfurt kitchen,” is mobile and constructed of several elements that fold out. Depending on the theme of the events it can be filled and used in different ways. Parallel to the events an installation of printed satin ribbons is being staged in the trees. Visitors to the meadows can discover different kinds of fruit and poems on the ribbons and can use the project website to obtain information on the dates of the events and about leasing an orchard meadow.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental
3-dimensional concepts

MARTIN GORKA [v]
New

The intention of this book is to reveal the paths of progress. It locates the new between the essential and the trivial, between the social and the commercial.
Newness is understood to be a means employed by a modern society whose goal is progress. The book presents in graphic form the results of comprehensive research on data that describe transformation and progress.
The result is an experiment in subjective observation that illustrates in the form of a map how the new enters the world and then spreads, the directions it sets out in, and where innovations cluster.

Prof. Klaus Hesse
-conceptual design
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

GESINE GÖTTING [v]
To the Examination

My work consists of full-length portraits of the professors in my main study period. It is a logical supplement to my minor subject project, in which I address the structures of forgetting pertaining to my very first elementary school year. While in the latter, the dimming of memory is visualized by erasing pencil drawings the size of class photographs, To the Examination intensifies the feeling of the examination by using life-size biro drawings. To the Examination is both a personal review of my time as a student and also a final diploma project. It enables the viewer to experience the gaze of the examiners shown and to feel what the exam situation was like. Above all, it also creates a direct tension between model and image, because the teachers then stand in front of their own portraits and make decisions as to pass or fail.

Prof. Manfred Stumpf
-conceptual drawing and life drawing
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

BETTINA GRÜNDEL [v]
An Unusual Journey

This film is about a man in his early forties who has become tired of life. After the death of his parents he takes over their travel agency, but is not interested in doing a good job. One day his dull routine is interrupted by a young man who finds his way into the agency. He embarks on a journey that will give a new direction to his life.
This is a film about the fear of the unknown and the fascination of the new. A film about life, whose value may be questioned or not, and about a man who is trying to find new meaning, but doing so unconsciously. This is la film about breaking out of the everyday, about how the attempt to break out threatens to fail and then is successful in a strange way.

Prof. Rotraut Pape
-film and video
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

MARCUS GUNDLING [v]
The Return of Paintings

An entrance, a couch, a still life with vase, and an overgrown garden are the central motifs of the new paintings by the artist Marcus Gundling (born 1976).
The paintings face us like vague memories, staring expectantly at us. They are always empty, eerily quiet, and seem mysterious. There is no hint of a story to be told, not even of a narrator who could provide us with information, and there is no prospect that someone will explain anything to us. Nevertheless, the paintings challenge us to decipher them.
Gundling’s artistic approach is to model his paintings on photo-graphs discovered in his intense research. Sometimes they remain lodged in his memory for years until the time comes when the hitherto undefined visual ideas are catalyzed, and Gundling concentrates them into their essential aspects.”
(Parisa Bouchet)

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Christian Janecke
-art history

TERESA HABILD [v]
The Resistible Rise
of Samuel Raiss

On the battlefield of the working world, the samurai ethos has taken on a new life. The self-appointed samurai Samuel Raiss is making a name for himself as head of security for a radically market-oriented company: the Swordfish Syndicate. Irrespective of Samuel’s battle with himself to remain loyal to the firm and his principles, a fight for compensation and justice is breaking out about the workers. The power of the management starts to weaken, along with the bizarre goldfish cult on which it feeds. Finally, the samurai’s sword is freed of its magic superstructure and becomes a mere tool of power: the sword is a thing with which one chops. What else is it for?

Prof. Dieter Lincke
-freehand drawing and illustration
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

CAROLINE HEIDER [p]
A First Aid Kit for the Car

Anyone involved in a traffic accident needs to be able to provide assistance quickly. Many people have only a dim recollection of the first aid course they did many years ago and little idea of what a first aid kit consists of or how to use it.
e.help is a telematic first aid kit for the car designed to make people less afraid to help at the scene of an accident. By providing guidance it helps people to feel more confident about giving assistance in difficult situations where they are often afraid of endangering themselves or making mistakes. The kit’s clear structure and user-friendly design are intended to make people more confident about administering non-professional first aid even when confronted with a serious accident.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

JOHANNES HEMANN [p]
The Calm before the Storm –
the Calm after the Storm

The calm before the storm only appears to be calm, but in fact it is a state of tension, of not knowing what will happen, a gathering of forces. These are charged moments, laden with energy, everything is concentrated, waiting for the moment of change. At the end of this process comes relaxation, release, exhaustion, real calm—the storm has passed, the outcome is visible, the energy has been converted, transformed into material.
I simulated storms in storm chambers and used the wind to generate forms. With the aid of compressed air, glue and the effects of heat, forms were created from disturbances that I could not influence directly but only indirectly by setting the parameters, such as material, heat, air current direction, etc. Through the storms, illuminated objects, a side table, and an armchair were created, which show The Calm before/ after the Storm.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

SEBASTIAN HERKNER [p]
Kate Chair

Kate Chair is a reinterpretation of a classic wing armchair, referring to the perceived value and symbolism of the original while emphasizing its uniqueness and features. This is achieved with the help of material and technological innovations, such as the notable contrast between analogue quilting on the seat and innovative three-dimensional weaving technology for the oversized backrest. A high degree of seating comfort is ensured by the woven cover, comprising various elastic woven zones combined with a sprung metal base. The user sinks down gently into the chair at the front while the rear of the cover provides more stabile support. The wings of the backrest work like an embrace that provides a sense of protection and security.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

AXEL HESS [v]
Bio-Heroes: A Time for New Heroes

The Green Party lost their hold on power at the last parliamentary elections, and yet the consequences of an economy run without sustainability continue to affect us all. Ever since the ecology movement flourished in the late 1980s, this awareness has led to the development of a significant sector of the economy whose participants have succeeded in combining economic success with ecological and ethical principles: the “eco sector” continues to grow.
This is made possible by idealists who have persistently worked to realize their vision of a better world and who continue to do so. The fruits of their labor range from the production of natural foods and textiles to the development of new environmentally friendly technologies and products.
But who are these people? What are the ideas that their companies are based on, what fates, what successes? What makes their activity significant? These are the questions I asked myself and explored using a few representative examples.#

Prof. Frank Schumacher
-photography
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

LESLIE HILDEBRANDT [p]
Wanderobe

Wanderobe is designed to extend private space into a room.
The design was inspired by the fire cabinets that were used more than a 100 years ago to keep a household’s precious objects safe. In the event of a fire these could be carried out of the house in three chests that were stacked on top of one another.
The world of cartoons also had a major influence on the design. By playing with perspective and proportions a completely new and unique kind of space was created.
Protecting one’s belongings and flexibility in furnishing are still important aspects to be considered in choosing furniture today. But our opinions about which things are important have changed. Objects have become essential conveyors of meaning in our lives. Wanderobe accommodates these personal objects and protects them from view. Its three separate compartments offer protection from fire, make different arrangements of the furniture possible, and facilitate transportation.

Prof. Siglinde Spanihel
-furniture design and products
in public spaces
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

CHRISTINE HOFFMEYER [p]
Cubicom_an Item of Furniture

Many people spend most of their lives in offices, so health issues play an increasingly important role there.
Cubicom is an upholstered item of furniture that offers storage space and seating rolled into one, and on a small scale takes account of the requirements of modern work in the new emotionally-charged office culture. Normally when people work at a desk they always sit in the same position, causing them to quickly fall into “bad” sitting habits, one of the most frequent causes of back problems. Cubicom offers many possibilities for adopting different sitting positions and to naturally shift position whether one is working or taking a break. Two Cubicoms can be combined to form a kind of bench.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation

FLORIAN JENETT [p]
503

Containers are objects designed to be used: functional, unprettified, and somehow honest. An uncompromising form that conforms to industrial standards and comes in RAL colors. Their presence is temporary; they seem to emerge over night, fill up, and then disappear again.
The 503 project plays with an aesthetic of the functional. The dumpster is mobile, having been converted into a working automobile, and looks like a hybrid of a utility vehicle and a military vehicle. It is large and ungainly but can be driven, and sitting on it is like sitting on a throne above the world, a boy’s dream come true, a “boy’s toy.” It is a box with wheels; almost the archetype of a vehicle.

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

UTA KAMMERER [p]
eauasis / sensability

The goal of this project is to improve the health of older people by encouraging better drinking practices and maintaining an independent lifestyle.

Drinking ritual: eauasis
Drinking as an experience.
The beverage service eauasis encourages the consumption of liquids with its permanent, varied selection of drinks served at different temperatures. Its design takes account of the fact that customers may suffer from limited movement in their wrists and fingers.

Thirst monitor: sensability
Making thirst “visible.”
Sensability measures and visualizes the balance of fluids in the human body throughout the day with a mobile bioimpedance spectrometer. This compensates for the decreasing sensation of thirst experienced by older people and provides sufficient time to counter any dehydration.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

OLIVER KELLER [p]
Larida / Urban Runabout

Urban Runabout Larida was developed as an everyday water-based means of transportation for urban coastal regions. The construction of the hulls is based on the technology used for modern Thundercat racing catamarans, enabling high speeds yet demonstrating stable handling and low energy consumption. The hulls have been developed to minimize stern wash, which is good for flora and fauna along the coastline and beneficial for transportation safety. The electric powered pod drives promote optimal agility, for instance in narrow canals. The boat makes use of innovative solutions for optimizing docking, casting off, mooring, boarding, and disembarking, and is ideal for relaxed everyday use with a high degree of comfort, paving the way for a whole new dimension of mobility on water.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Dipl. Des. Aleks Tatic
-academic advisor

FLORIAN KLEENE [p]
Attention Catchers

Interventions in urban spaces on the theme of fear of crime and crime prevention.
The aim of my diploma project is to increase sensitivity to fear of crime and crime prevention. New ways of relating to this theme may help to enhance the effect of previous publicity campaigns in this area.
My approach is to create isolated interventions in urban spaces that use the element of surprise to confront citizens with security issues.
The main idea here is not to convey repressive or moralizing messages, nor to address perpetrators or victims of crime directly, but instead to sharpen everyone’s awareness of security factors in both the private and the public sphere and to encourage people to address an issue to which the general attitude is one of resignation.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

BENJAMIN KNABE [v]
Inside

As part of this photography project, young men held in a juvenile detention center were asked about the images and fantasies that repeatedly preoccupy them while in custody. “The way I see it, as a prisoner in jail I am automatically nailed down to certain images. I am nailed to the past because I see no future. I may have plans that I want to put into practice, but when I’m in my cell in the evening, then I imagine, for example... friends I played soccer with, for example. Or friends I went barbecuing with. Or my parents at the breakfast table... an image of my room. These are all tiny details that aren’t really anything special. But they mean a lot to me.”

Prof. Frank Schumacher
-photography
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

PASCAL KRESS [v]
Photo Removed

In the installation Photo Removed, error messages, mostly from the internet, were removed from their functional digital context and transferred to literal space. There they were given a forum to expound their poetry of negation.
The words and symbols were plotted out on black adhesive foil and put up on exposed concrete walls of abandoned commercial spaces. In the accompanying exhibition, the visitors had the opportunity to physically explore the motifs. Subsequently the motifs were photographed by the architectural photographer Jörg Baumann.
Nonimages produced new images.

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

KAI LINKE [p]
It Wasn‘t Me / Root Chair

It Wasn’t Me and Root Chair are two works inspired by the theme of deformation.
Deformation describes a state that deviates from the norm state and is brought about by a force of some kind. Each of the two works show a different approach.

Root Chair:
In Root Chair the normal state of a plant root is deformed through deliberate human intervention and reshaped into pre-determined chair and table forms. The experiments using different plants and soil cultures in small preparatory models were followed by the long-term experiment Root Chair, which uses the scale 1 to 1 and will continue over the next few years.

It Wasn‘t Me:
The title of the second work It Wasn’t Me indicates that the deformation it shows was brought about not through forces triggered by me but by the material itself.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

KARIN LINDNER [v]
Experiencing the Left

The exhibition space consists of an outstretched white dome tent that represents the outlines of a human head in stylized form. Sensory impressions such as noises and moving images occur outside the space and are perceived inside it only schematically. Information is conveyed to viewers too within the “brain.” Information posts crisscross the space in the form of human synapses, and several experimental stations enable to visitors to try out left- and right-handedness in different everyday situations.

Prof. Friedrich Friedl
-typography
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

SABRINA LUDWIG [p]
Sense_Scape

Sense_Scape is an ergotherapeutic pediatric tool designed for children of kindergarten and elementary school age suffering from apraxia and perception disorders. The light, flexible, modular system is placed close to the ground and aims to promote movement and stimulate the physical senses (balance, self-perception, and tactile perception). It includes options for varying the intensities and combination.
The elements are designed to be walked upon, with the interior design of the experience zones creating a new, unexpected physical sensation underfoot with each step taken by the child.
Combining the individual elements allows the therapist to put together therapeutic and diagnostic treatment plans or two-dimensional experience zones. Together they provide a wide range of perception-based opportunities.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

ARIANE MAYER [v]
Marie-Sophie

This work tells the story of two young women who have never seen each other before but somehow know each other from their dreams.
Marie’s life and Sophie’s are very different. Sophie works in a café, is a video artist, and lives absent-mindedly in the big city. She talks constantly and believes she is surrounded by friends. Marie lives a withdrawn life on a crabbing boat working as a fisherwoman. Without superfluous words, she does what needs to be done.
In their daily lives, neither of them can shake the feeling that she lacks something or someone. One day Marie and Sophie meet unexpectedly and spend a day together, as if things had never been otherwise.
Despite their differences, astonishing parallels emerge. This seductive moment of their dreams becoming real shows each of them what she misses so much in her own life.

Prof. Rotraut Pape
-film and video
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

MARCUS MERY [v]
Koplax: A Farm in Romania

Koplax is a Romanian farm near Bucharest with a diverse history. Once a communist model farm with 2,000 cows, after the iron curtain opened following Nicolai Ceauşescu’s death in 1989, it became a problem farm. A wide variety of people with equally varied stories live and work here, including Lars Mayer, a young German farmer from Hanover. His ambitious idea was to rebuild a Romanian model farm that would be a showpiece project for the rational use of technology and the conscientious raising of animals. This documentary film in the direct cinema style follows Mayer over a two-year period as he and his translator, Cristi, confront the often absurd problems of everyday life in the postcommunist era—and ultimately fail.

Prof. Rotraut Pape
-film and video
Prof. Dr. Christian Janecke
-art history

GESINE MEYER [v]
Architecture of Light

The concept for the bank of the River Main in Offenbach aims to create a place of two contrasting moods: tranquility and experience. Tranquility is achieved on a broad platform whose boundaries recede into the background, allowing people to feel the effects of pure, natural light in all its facets. The character of the walk-through, meandering landscape of flat surfaces is one of playful experience. During the day a three-dimensional pattern of light is created that projects onto people and moves with them. After dark the rigid material surfaces become a moving structure of light whose soft form dissolves the hard contours. The architecture of light is to be built of translucent concrete illuminated by an LED matrix integrated into the floor.

Dipl. Des. Daniel Zerlang-Rösch
-academic advisor
Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

NADJA MILENKOVIC [v]
Pag

Pag is a Croatian island that was deforested a millennium ago. Its landscape, which at first glance seems dead, reveals its filigreed beauty very delicately between rough piles of pebbles. For me, Pag stands for destruction and indestructibility at the same time, for utopia after the catastrophe. Human intervention in nature, reshaping it, appropriating it, exploiting it, leaving behind fragments of a lonely, seemingly lifeless landscape. But that is precisely where the durability and resistance of life are revealed. In my painting, I set lines from CAD drawings against amorphous forms and surfaces with highly differentiated tonality within shades of gray.

Prof. Adam Jankowski
-painting
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

MILICA MILINOV [v]
Nino

Nino is a shy young man who is not taken seriously by those around him. In his world, however, Nino is a cool guy who can sing and dance. After a day full of humiliations, Nino gets the opportunity of his life: as if out of nowhere, a fairy appears to him. But what will Nino wish for?

Prof. Rotraut Pape
-film and video
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

MARC NOTHELFER [v]
North Dietzenbach

This sound installation was installed in the industrial zone North Dietzenbach from May 10 to June 20, 2007, and consisted of ten loudspeakers of the sort normally used to provide orientation in traffic. Attached to the poles of street lamps and wired into their power supplies, they were turned on at night with the street lamps, and played a kind of soundtrack in an infinite loop at night—outside of normal business hours. Fragments of music, abstract sounds, and sheets of sound alluded to the feel of North Dietzenbach. The installation was located in a marginal zone—both in terms of space and time—and was intended for a random audience. It generated a sound space that, synchronized with the changing time of day, reformed anew every evening.

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

MICHAEL PALM [p]
Communication Game for Couples

Mercury is reduced to essential features, yet the appearance is exciting and tense. The tales that result—and this implicitly includes the playersí thoughts—form the focus of this game. A transparent material was used which reflects the insight provided into these games of make-believe. Its appearance is reminiscent of the structure of a blossoming flower. The story originates in the center and moves outwards until it is fully developed. The plot unfolds like an emerging bloom, as it were. Mercury is given a different form in each game, and thus each is unique. The cases are made of thin plastic, causing the rolling ball on the game board to gently rock back and forth. With every card placed in the game the rocking changes, and the rolling of the ball is stabilized.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

ALF PLESSOW [p]
O-Light

O-Light is an innovative and sustainable lighting concept for urban and public areas that uses renewable energy to illuminate our cities.
The lighting system is based on innovative OLED technology and offers completely new possibilities for illumination. The design aims to emphasize the unusual lightness and freedom of form made possible by OLED technology.
O-Light is a self-sufficient lighting system. During the day solar energy is captured via thin-film solar cells, which also provide shade. When it gets dark the OLEDs emit a pleasant light inviting city dwellers to spend the evening outdoors.

Prof. Petra Kellner
-intercultural design projects,
color, product language
Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation

KATJA PREUSS [v]
The Murders of Eigersbrück

Cheap serialized novels appear every 14 days in editions of millions, printed on thin newspaper, and costing 1.45 Euro (price includes grammatical errors). The heroes of these novels are honest and morally upright citizens of the German-speaking Alps, and they stand for values that are as timeless and irrefutable as the mountain landscape where the stories take place.Unfortunately the cheap presentation and the inflationary use of these serialized novels do not correspond to the values in the stories. The true worth of a novel like this can only be experienced by taking a closer interest in it, well beyond its usual sell-by date. The elaborate illustration of the novel creates lasting value – the value that these books really deserve!

Prof. Dieter Lincke
-freehand drawing and illustration
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

SASKIA RANDT
& CHRISTINE CORRELL [v]
Josef

Josef consists of three parts: 176 photocopies with overdrawing, a mural composed of painted wood forms, and a boxlike object of plywood. The individual parts stand in a causal and circular connection with each other. Josef I, II, III represents an attempt to come to terms with the model and its internalization and the rejection of a system. It is about the question to what extent our own actions are influenced by a model and whether it is possible to resist this process.


Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

KRISTINA RIEDINGER [p]
diVino

diVino is a comprehensive concept for wine-tasting and for the presentation and conservation of open wines in high-class hotel and catering.
Part of the concept is a special cap, also called diVino, containing the noble gas Argon. When the bottle is closed it covers the surface of the wine like a protective film, thus conserving open wine. This new method of re-closing open bottles preserves the wine over a number of weeks and prevents a deterioration in quality and taste
The final element in the diVino concept is diVinarium, an acclimatized wine storage cabinet in which wine can be optimally stored and presented, thus deliberately making the open bottle of wine into a special feature. diVino allows restaurants or vinotheques to sell exclusive open wines by the glass, thus satisfying the guest’s wish to be served open wine of unerring good quality by the glass and presented in a stylish manner.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

CHRISTIAN RUCHNEWITZ [p]
Self-Destruction

I had this desk lamp as a child. It was very bright and above all very hot. The flies that flew toward the light-bulb, attracted by the light, would drop onto my desk, stunned by the heat.
After pausing to recover, they made a second attempt, but as they approached the bulb they collapsed again. This scene repeated itself a number of times until finally, singed by the heat, the flies remained lying on the desk motionless.
Five works on the subject of self-destruction. A vase made of sherbet; posters on which the print dissolves; a pullover that one is forced to stain; an installation consisting of fax machines that continually send a message until it becomes indecipherable; two fax machines each of which is connected to a shredder so that the messages are destroyed as soon as they arrive.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental
3-dimensional concepts

SIMON SCHÄFER [v]
So

Software Update via Satellite and via RS 232.
In contemporary debate on technology, one of the most frequently discussed issues is mobile TV.
The award of the Innovation Prize of German Business will take place in Frankfurt’s Alte Oper during the Gala Night of German Business.
The large number of controversial political ideas and definitions can be sorted into three dimensions, without each of these excluding the others.
Every either-or neither both-as also but.
Around 60 per cent of the population of Germany belongs to a Christian church.
A new way to earn money. Try for yourself!
Of course this dream was also based on a new image of mankind.
We are available to answer your questions by telephone Mon— Fri from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
I would like to thank the Bachmann company for ordering the multiple socket outlets.

Prof. Wolfgang Luy
-sculpture and 3d design
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

TILMANN SCHLOOTZ [p]
Audi Snook

Tilmann Schlootz presents a new transportation concept in the practical section of his diploma thesis project. Audi Snook utilizes the aviation-based principle of agility through instability. The ball caster allows the driver in the automatically stabilized cabin to achieve completely new maneuvers such as turning on the spot. Schlootz has an eye on the future with his design to promote urban mobility. He is a finalist in three design competitions: VDA Design Award, Michelin Challenge Design, and Forum Junges Design. The theoretical component of his diploma project is also future oriented, with research into product design and the future. He has investigated methodological similarities, strategic influence, and synergies in practice, and has taken up a position as a graduate researcher with Volkswagen AG conducting future research.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

SEBASTIAN SCHULZ [p]
Proximiti

My product design aims to establish a connection between the technical advantages of networks and the added value of direct dialogue.
It is based on the idea of using digital wireless personal area networks to connect people who would otherwise not be aware of each other. The goal is to promote direct communication by getting digital devices to communicate with each other and inform the people operating them what they have in common with others nearby.
The goal is to make people aware of each other by setting up a technical network, thus encouraging them to work together.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Bettina Neu
-BMW Group

VALERIE SIETZY [v]
attention / centre

The video installation attention / centre shows people whose passion is dancing. This enthusiasm has led several to become professional dancers; for others, the penchant is so secret that hardly anyone has ever seen them dance. All the protagonists improvise without instructions to music they chose themselves.
attention / centre examines the tension between overt presentation of the self and hiding, and also leaves room for cool poses, as well as the failure of coolness. The positions revealed represent different aspects of dancing. They all have in common certain archaic, elementary movements that are a key part of being human.
This work is based on a documentary approach. It is like a witness of our times, a kind of study that understands movements as the words of a language that changes constantly and therefore should be recorded.


Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

CLAUDIA STIEFEL [v]
No Money – or Another Way to Think

Money makes the world go round... Money plays a very large role in our society. Yet there are always people who consciously seek out and live new alternatives. The motives for living a life without money vary considerably. Some do it for religions reasons or to improve the world, some out of a sense of adventure in order to experience uncertain and spontaneous things, some out of necessity, some in order to alleviate the suffering of others. Dropouts, seekers, adventurers, critics, clever business people, and much more.

This book presents the various possibilities. It is not an introduction but rather a contribution for change in our habitual ways of thinking, offering a different view of our society. It is printed on the backs of old posters, maps, and other used paper and thus nearly gets buy without money for its production.

Prof. Klaus Hesse
-conceptual design
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

MALTE STOLLE [p]
Interdukt

Interdukt is a modular storage system which permeates the living space and allows flexible combinations, while its tubelike dimensions make the space more accessible. Interdukt is set up according to the size of each room and the requirements of the person using it. It comes in the form of connecting sections and solitary sideboards or wall shelves. The flexible system is composed of three modules which are geometrically angled, enabling them to be arranged in a number of positions.
Interdukt breaks away from the conventional static relationship between furniture and the wall, moving unobtrusively along the walls and into the room itself. The system bridges the gap between artwork and designer object, and between functional item and sculpture. It shapes the impact of the room without neglecting its own function as furniture.

Prof. Siglinde Spanihel
-furniture design and products
in public spaces
Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler
-cultural history and history
of technology

CHRISTIAN STROBEL [v]
Snap / Shot

For the practical section of my thesis, I look at music as a possibility for relating repetitive sequences of linguistic elements to space. The basis for my project is the soundtracks of several feature films, some of which are from a pop cultural context. The individual installations were created on the computer and function like pieces of music. The available stylistic means are not only scenes of dialogue with language but also remnants of noise, like the banging of a door, the sound of a glass being put down, or fragments from the original film music.
The rhythm of the installations thus serves as a stimulus for an inner film.

One section of my thesis project, titled “Sitting in My Hi-Art,” was exhibited at the Hessischer Rundfunk’s first Klangbiennale in 2007.

Prof. Heiner Blum
-design basics and experimental 3-dimensional concepts
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

MATTHIAS TEDJASUKMANA [v]
Reconstitution of Order

When snakes and dark forces rule, and the loyalty of the Nibelungen lies broken in the dust: WE live on, we are not dead. Our Indonesian sword on the whetstone—the dawn of (spiritual) freedom will soon break!
A figure lay on the ground. So evil that the flowers around it withered. A dark soul lay on the ground. So cold that all the water turned to ice. A shadow fell over the forest. When the figure’s soul withered. For the figure’s spirit was a shadow. A shadow of the forces of evil.

Prof. Adam Jankowski
-painting
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

CORNELIA VOGT [v]
Catholic: The Workbook for Faith

What kind of lives did saints lead? What did God create in Genesis other than human beings? What are the rules for electing a pope?
This workbook provides knowledge about the Catholic Church in a hundred pages. The reader can enjoy learning more about faith, liturgy, the Bible, the pope, and the Vatican. Fill-in-the-blank exercises, “find the differences” pictures, word puzzles, labyrinths, and mathematical puzzles all invite readers to playfully and critically consider current issues relating to the Catholic Church.
With its many illustrations and photographs, the workbook is aimed primarily at young people who should learn more about their faith. Its varying grades of difficulty make it particularly suited to teaching use.

Prof. Klaus Hesse
-conceptual design
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

YOSHIKO VOLLOINGA-YAMAMOTO [v]
Folded Spaces

This project deals with the following issues: How can a two dimensional object be transformed into a three dimensional one? Can geometrical repetition be given an organic appearance? With these questions in mind I attempted to develop new structures which can be used to produce flexible objects and spaces. I focused on paper and origami, the traditional Japanese technique of paper folding.
The principle of origami offers tried and tested opportunities for creating this transformation from two to three dimensions, while endowing an instable material with flexibility, elasticity, and stability.
The structures I developed with folding techniques can be fixed in place and stabilized with either synthetic resin or through tension provided by fabric attached to the surface.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation

VIOLETTA WALTER [v]
After-Life

James, Brian, Kurt, Janis, Rafał, Jimi, Sarah, Jean-Michel, Jim, River—life overpowered you too quickly. It was impossible to hold you. Flight was your path, the only way for you to rest. Who you really were in life remains hidden. The blank spots you left behind open enough space to shroud you in mystery as icons for eternity. That prevents you from fading, but it does not reveal your essence. In this world—things did not get better, but there are escape routes to be found. The deaths that deprived the world of your creativity and spiritual power were not magnificent. It remains a challenge to understand you.

Prof. Klaus Hesse
-conceptual design
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

TOBIAS WEILAND [p]
CARRYall

The CARRYall is a one-seater electric motor unit to which various devices such as a loading trough or grass cutter can be attached. By combining a number of uses in a single unit the CARRYall can serve a broad spectrum of applications in both rural and urban situations.
The CARRYall can even be operated off-road thanks to having wheels with independent suspension and hydraulically articulated steering. Modern battery and motor technology has been applied to ensure a suitably wide operating range.
The CARRYall has been designed as a tool for hire in the private sector. It can adapted to the customer’s needs and be rented out in tool rental centers.

Prof. Dieter Mankau
-ITD: institute for technology-
orientated design innovation
Prof. Petra Kellner
-intercultural design projects,
color, product language

ELIAS WESSEL
& SARIA ATIVE [v]
Falling in Love

This thesis project is a photographic interpretation of selected texts and themes from Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume: art and artificiality, perfection, aesthetics, and aestheticism, the concept of the genius, and mass seduction in the context of contemporary fashion photography, in which, as with Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a person’s glossy surface stabilizes, justifies, indeed almost defines his or her existence. Images that awake desire like scents without causing shame. A woman’s “atmosphere” as an element of her sex appeal. An alliance between woman and flower. Pure beauty.

Prof. Frank Schumacher
-photography
Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner
-theory of perception

TERESA WIESEHÖFER [v]
Impotence

“The world is big and diverse in its expressions and events. And humankind stands in the world, with all their emotions, their wishes, their cruelty, their love.
This is the perspective I am coming from. Awakening a sculpture to life, pulling it up, means giving it a place in this world, a place from where it can be observed and from where it too can observe others. It comes about in a storm of things seen and felt, of wishes and of contemplation. It bears witness: for unlike living people, it remains what it is and never again changes shape.
I try to create images that are not the expression of a specific content but rather in their authenticity themselves become vessels that carry a content.”

Prof. Manfred Stumpf
-conceptual drawing and life drawing
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt
-language and aesthetics

NICOLE WINTER [v]
Fast Music Diner

At the Fast Music Diner, music is ordered à la carte, a girl on roller skates serves it on freshly pressed vinyl disks. To get their music, the efficient and greedy manager and his wife are holding the band Rock ’n’ Roll Hotel captive. They elicit music from them with the help of sophisticated technology. A practice that is not without consequences.
The work is based on ironic exaggeration of the plot, which is reinforced by elaborate postproduction.
A fundamental aspect of the conception of the Fast Music Diner was the observation of the band Rock ’n’ Roll Hotel and its milieu.
The documentary film Kogge Rock ’n’ Roll Hotel and Harbor Bar was produced in parallel. Gernot Krainer and Riikka Beust are the proprietors of this former sailors’ hotel in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg. He is the guitarist and lead singer of Rock ’n’ Roll Hotel; she plays the wife of the manager of the diner. All of the actors in the music video are regulars at the Kogge, and their lifestyle is characterized by an intense attachment to the culture of bars and rock ’n’ roll music.

Prof. Rotraut Pape
-film and video
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Niebuhr
-sociology of media

VALERIE ZILCH [p]
fini

Seating with a three dimensional knitted cover.
Technological developments in textile processes are making it increasingly possible to break new ground in terms of function and design. fini is an example of this, a seamless furniture cover produced using a 3D knitting technique. It has “comfort” zones and “heavy-duty” zones which can be accessed and visualized exclusively via the meshed structure. This 3D knitted system replaces the need for additional upholstery, as the meshed structure adapts flexibly to the zones which are subject to the greatest pressure.
The cover was produced in a single step with no subsequent assembly necessary. It is pulled over the furniture frame like a tube. The knitting process can be carried out with multicolored threads.

Prof. Peter Eckart
-product design, integrated design,
product language
Nicola Stattmann
-academic advisor