TALKS - GERMAN DESIGN GRADUATES

GDG TALKS

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
11 AM – 3 PM
VENUE: Hillside Palais, Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden
REGISTRATION REQUIRED VIA REGISTRATION TALKS

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11 a.m.
DESIGN EMERGENCY - Building a Better Future

A talk by Alice Rawsthorn about visionary designers whose innovation and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reshaping our lives so we can thrive. Through four themes – technology, society, communication, and ecology – Alice Rawsthorn presents a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the great challenges of our time, while helping us benefit from advances in science and technology.

12 a.m.
GDG TO THE REGIONS - Regional identity + global strategies

Conceptualized by Prof. Mark Braun and moderated by Alexandra Sender, Rainer Schilling (Managing Director Berliner Blau, subsidiary Nomos Glashütte), Andreas Müller (Managing Director Mühle Shaving, a representative of Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau), Prof. Mark Braun and Lukas Hartz (Alumnus HBKsaar & GDG 2021) talk about companies with attitude, regional identity and global strategies as well as the role of design as a language without words and design as a communicator of attitude.

1 p.m.
EDUCATION – RESEARCH – PRACTICE - Forms, potentials, connections in design

Planned by Prof.in Dr. Annika Frye (Design Science & Research, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts Kiel) and Dr. Christian Wölfel (Senior Research Associate Professorship of Technical Design TU Dresden), moderated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Krzywinski (Professorship of Technical Product Design TU Dresden), Dr. Andrea Augsten, Christopher Stillings (Covestro), Dipl. Des. Jens Hoyer (Head of Design Strategy & Pre Development, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Brand Siemens), Stephan Ott (Head of Institute for Design Research and Appliance) and Lea Schmidt (PhD student Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) will talk about the connection and transfer of design research and practice, sustainable constellations of manufacturers, researchers and developers, and the role of doctoral studies in design education.

2 p.m.
PARTICIPATIVE DESIGN IN PRACTICE - Challenges and opportunities

Moderated by Barbara Lersch (Hans Sauer Foundation), actors such as Mona Mijthab von Mosan, Felix Egle & Felix Schreiber, Prof. Ineke Hans (other participants tba) will talk about their experiences in various industries about challenges and opportunities of participatory design. How do actors deal with industry-specific challenges – from urban practice to medical and circular design? How can we anchor participatory design processes in the processes of cooperation partners as an independent designer, in agencies or companies? How can citizens, employees, stakeholders and affected persons be activated and involved in processes? How is the professional image of the designer and the relationship between designers and non-designers changing?