»La Fleur Mathématique«
Bend it like Dini!
Architectural Math for Bamboo Structures (AMBS)
Lab: Archive
A Lab for Rapid
Prototyping
Curatorial-driven, the LAB is an innovation laboratory and incubator promoting research, multidisciplinary studies, knowledge exchange, and the advancement of complex ideas and networks. The LAB will inform practice in the field of design and enable the development new strategies and special projects in the museum.
Key research clusters include:
- Creating Rapid Response Curatorial Strategies
- Rethinking permanent collection displays
- Proposing new ways of collecting and exhibiting design
- Creating new opportunities/partnerships for the Museum
- Creating new modes of curatorial work
- Developing new types of collaboration among SKD museums
- Exploring new platforms for public interaction
- Serving as an incubator to develop new design projects within the digital strategy of the museum
The LAB will host a series of residencies, workshops, and partner events possibly leading to exhibitions, products or services, and publications. Its programme involves collaboration with local and international universities, companies, research institutions, scholars and partners from all over Germany and abroad.
Serendipity Searcher / Builder Atlas
The Art of Associative Searching
This project explores experimental algorithmic ways to produce and display digital image clusters. This will inspire new human interpretations of digital collections.
Nanotourism
Exploring the vicinity
An experimental educational program aiming to create full scale conceptual case studies of nanotourism through site-specific, participatory and locally-oriented processes.
Spoon Archaeology
Excavating the past and precence of design practice
An exhibition on plastic cutlery, its design history, its material culture and ecological consequences. This exhibition presents a vast collection of plastic forks, knives and spoons, asking about their implications and possible alternatives in the face of an ecological crisis.
High-quality simplicity
Deutsche Werkstätten in China
This exchange program between two research-based institutions in China and Germany together with students, experts and other stakeholder will explore the relations between China and Germany in the field of furniture and interior design in the 20th century.
The diaphanous in Architecture
Concepts of a new Orangery
The task of the semester project is to design a relief building for the existing orangery in the park of Pillnitz Palace.
OFF TO THE CITY
Concepts for a New Design Museum in Dresden
Students from the Chair of Public Buildings at Dresden University of Technology transferred the »Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts« from its existing interim location in Pillnitz to the centre of the city as part of a design studio in the winter semester of 2020/21.
FIGURINES!
Contemporary ceramic conversation pieces for dinner table
The semester project of the University of Arts Berlin to reinterpretate ceramic figurines, that were on the tables of kings and queens as conversation pieces about 300 years ago
Circular Design Challenge 2023
an International Summer Workshop under the umbrella of the New European Bauhaus
This 9‑day program will provide the latest insights, tools and methods for circular design in the fields of construction and product design and guide you in conception of innovative solutions for repurpose of end-of-life components.
