On 31 October 2024, the German Design Graduates Initiative is once again inviting visitors to the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main – this time for a guided tour and panel discussion on the topic of ‘From Research to Application’.
The exhibition ‘Dare to Design’ (31 August – 5 January 2025) brings together the most interesting works by graduates from German universities. On 31 October 2024, the rooms of the Museum Angewandte Kunst will be dedicated to the exchange between research and practice. Katrin Krupka, project manager of German Design Graduates, will give a guided tour of the exhibition at 3 pm. She will provide exciting insights into pioneering projects and show how design responds to social challenges.This will be followed by the GDG talk ‘From research to application’ from 16.00 to 17.30. Moderated by Stephan Ott (Director Institute for Design Research and Appliance, German Design Council), Philipp Cartier (Gestaltungszentrale Politik & GDG Award Winner), Armand Zorn (Member of the German Bundestag) and Carsten Waldeck (Shift Phone) will discuss the challenges and opportunities of transferring research results into practice.
The panel will focus on how design and its methods can help to translate theoretical research findings into practical applications. For some time now, classic academic research has been concerned with how its validated findings can be put into practice rather than disappearing into the drawers of its clients. The aim of the panel is to discuss how design and design research, with its specific methods and approaches, can maintain or establish practical relevance. As the number of participants is limited, please register in advance.
These are the speakers
Philipp Cartier, GDG Award Winner 2024 and graduate of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. With his master’s thesis ‘Gestaltungszentrale Politik’, Philipp Cartier, together with Jule Helene Leinpinsel, Robert Schröter, Lisa Heinze and Norbert Lein, founded the association of the same name, which investigates the relationship between politics and design. In the spirit of applied research, the initiative works on pilot projects with members of the German Bundestag and political scientists in order to gain a precise understanding of everyday political life and processes and to promote a sustainable change in design culture in political creative processes in the interest of the common good.
Armand Zorn, Member of the German Bundestag, SPD parliamentary group, constituency 182: Frankfurt am Main. After graduating from university, he worked at the French National Assembly in the European Affairs Department, then as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a project manager at GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit for digital transformation and economic sustainability in development cooperation. Armand Zorn and his team are currently developing new measures on ‘digital literacy in society’ with the support of Gestaltungszentrale Politik e.V..
Carsten Waldeck, CEO and founder of SHIFT GmbH, designer, philosopher and inventor. With a degree in communication design, Carsten Waldeck worked as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics IGD in the field of ‘Mobile Information Visualisation’ and wrote scientific publications about his invention ‘Liquid Browsing’ and other interaction innovations. At the same time he founded several companies. The main goal of SHIFT, which Carsten Waldeck founded together with his brother Samuel Waldeck as a start-up in 2016 in Falkenberg, Hesse, as an investor-free, 100% social enterprise, is to maximise purpose and value, not profit.
About the German Design Graduates (GDG)
The German Design Graduates (GDG), sponsored by the German Design Council Foundation, is the only national initiative aimed at promoting young graduates from the fields of product and industrial design as well as presenting renowned German universities, art academies, and technical colleges.
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