The Ideal Face? – Does the ideal face exist, or is it just an illusion we constantly shape? The change in the face, is it an external modification, or a profound yearning for identity and recognition?
Student: Quianxue Zhang
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Judge me! – You can’t tell faces from their history. This raises the question: are we too quick to judge? How do our experiences and prior knowledge ultimately influence our decisions and judgment? This consideration gave rise to the card game “Judge Me!”, which deals with prejudices.
Student: Lina Grübel
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Rebranding the King Rose Dance Collective – Raviva Nsiama developed a new logo, social media strategies and ideas to build up the community for the KRDC – a queer ballet collective that combines dance and club culture.
Student: Raviva Nsiama
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Palimpsest in design – A new design is created by scraping. In addition, an index on the subject of palimpsests has been created.
Student: Henri Gimm
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Roman Wilhelm, Prof. Dr. Miriam Österreich
Menstrual products are like toilet paper – A group of students worked together to ensure that dispensers with free menstrual products are hung up in the eight largest buildings at the UdK Berlin.
Student: Charlotte Riemann, Lili Hillerich
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Civic Duty: Basic Law in Everyday Life – The players of the card game ‘Civic Duty: Basic Law in Everyday Life’ have various situation cards in their hands, which they have to match with the revealed law cards. By making this connection, players recognise the relevance of the Basic Law for everyday life.
Student: Julia Vermöhlen, Linus von Appen
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Grundgesetz. Grund genug – Right-wing extremism no longer seems to be a marginal phenomenon, as racist and far-right narratives have long been part of our everyday lives. The illustrative poster series speaks out where words are lacking and reminds us of a divided value system that leaves no room for counter-arguments.
Student: Kaja Funk
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Logline – A personification of humanity lives through its life in five acts, with each act representing a normative and stereotypical phase of life. High-contrast depictions of the scenes explore the interplay of collective and subjective memories. The personification speaks in monologues about phenomena of memory.
Student: Vincent Carter
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Prof. Kathi Kaeppel, Prof. Dr. Katrin Peters
Summit of the Future – Is humanity changing technology or is technology changing humanity? Nine students investigated this research question and developed visual commentaries. The result is a modular poster exhibition.
Students: Qianxue Zhang, Linus von Appen, Penelope Hehl, Julius Tiemann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Graustufen (Von Ja bis Nein) – Yes, no … actually somewhere in between? Do we always need a clear position immediately? Between the black and white answers is a space that allows us to think first. A 10 cm thick leporello with 100 answers shows the space between yes and no.
Student: Fanny Ebeling
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Emotion Cards – When words fail, pictures speak. The emotion cards allow complex feelings to be experienced visually. They create space for communication and self-reflection as well as a deeper awareness of the diversity of the emotional world.
Student: Marieluise Kämpf
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Rundgang Poster – With an approachable, multilingual and multisensory Rundgang communication in collaboration with students from all faculties, we are opening the doors to UdK Berlin wider than ever before with Rundgang 2024. Berlin is diverse, and so is the UdK. And that’s exactly the way we show it.
Students: Leon Hochhäuser, Momo Anders
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Rundgang Poster – How does Rundgang feel like? Communication proposals for the UdK Sommerrundgang 2024
Students: Poster 1: Gerrit Ludwig und Mélan Rouillon, Poster 2: Alessandra Fochesato, Poster 3: Hannah Stöwe und Marieluise Kämpf, Poster 4: Qianxue Zhang
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Rundgang Poster – How does Rundgang feel like? Communication proposals for the UdK Sommerrundgang 2024
Students: Poster 1: Iuliia Volokhina, Poster 2: Antony Langeheinecke, Poster 3: Alexandra Trinkl, Poster 4: Liyue Wang
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Time for peace – Together with students from the design graphique department of the EnsAD Paris, peacemaking projects were developed for the UN United Nations. In two workshops in Paris and Berlin, 120 ideas were developed, two of which were elaborated.
The project was funded by OFAJ/DFJW https://www.dfjw.org/
Promos, Erasmus Plus
Students: Alexandra Trinkl, Caroline Perrotte, Claire Maurice, Flore Laissus, Gerrit Ludwig, Hannah Stöwe, Iuliia Volokhina, Julie Drahmani, Julius Riek, Liyue Wang, Mélan Rouillon, Melissa Carene
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Prof. Ruedi Baur, Prof. Laurent Ungerer
Remembrance work – The publication series focuses on the history of the UdK Berlin with its participants, buildings, collections and influence on the city and society. Published by UdK Verlag.
Students: Momo Anders, Max Arff, Ira Göller, Anton Ladewig, Sebastian Richter
Typesetting: Max Arff, Anton Ladewig
Lecturer: Anja Steinig
Fliesentisch – As a homage to (South) German everyday kitsch, memories of kitsch in our lives are scrutinised: whether allotment gardens, Christmas at grandma’s or the Alemannic carnival. Old and new kitsch becomes contemporary nostalgia through cultural recycling.
Student: Josephine Aymar
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Prof. Fons Hickmann
Intervention as communication
Keimzelle – The accomplices are the nucleus of the Centre for Political Beauty. As independent activists, they are given the opportunity to show their faces, to network and to carry out their own actions.
Student: Charlotte Riemann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Intervention as communication
Joining forces, watering trees – Berlin, we need trees! Let’s water the trees in our neighbourhood together.
Information about the trees, public pumps in your street and tips for proper watering at: https://www.giessdenkiez.de
Student: Charlotte Riemann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Untitled – A videographic inventory of the continuously changing subjective view of one’s own place of origin. 2023. HD single channel video, 6 min 17 sec.
Student: Niclas Moos
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Prof. dr. Miriam Oesterreich, Ruven Wiegert
I don’t follow – xxplain – Sexism and misogyny are problems we encounter every day – online and offline. Alpha podcasts and dating coaches in particular provoke with lurid content and spread old role models. The campaign calls on social media users to take a stand against misogynistic content with films, an educational Instagram account and stickers. Instagram account: @idontfollowxxplain
Student: Josefine Nitzsche
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
The Change Project
Sexism during apartment hunting – #SEXISMUSWS contains reports on sexism when looking for an apartment to draw more attention to the issue in public space.
Student: Alexandra Trinkl
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Project Null
Null – Zero is the perfect reduction, it makes one equal to ten, a hundred, a thousand, it makes water freeze, it is neutrality and departure. In a joint project of the Campaigns class and the Graphic Design class, associative, artistic, but also applied works on the theme were created.
Lecturers: Prof. Fons Hickmann, Prof. Barbara Kotte
Unerkannt: ADHS bei Frauen und Mädchen – In our society, ADHD is often seen as a ‘boy’s disorder‘ and often goes unrecognized in women and girls due to this prejudice and insufficient research. Its symptoms manifest themselves differently and often more subtly than in men. This publication portrays the reality of five young women with ADHD through photos and interviews.
Student: Hanna Vinokurov
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Irrgarten – Together with the “LitfassGoesUrbanArt” project, an advertising pillar was put up at Gesundbrunnen station. The maze symbolizes the extreme flood of information to which we are exposed due to mass media. Its shimmering net draws passers-by into winding dead ends.
Student: Anneli Dormann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Unseen Women – The project deals with the statement: “Behind faces are stories” and sheds light on forgotten life stories of women. Women are often overlooked in the arts, sciences and many other fields. This small collection, which could go on forever, makes these stories visible.
Student: Lina Gröndahl
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
»GiRRLZ« is a biannual published zine that shines a spotlight on the perspectives and strategies shaping the concept of the Girl(blogger)’s identity in online spaces. This edition dives deep into the selfie – examining its functions, its place in cultural and historical contexts, its relevance today, and the intricate politics surrounding it.
Student: Katharina Schnaubelt
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Shame must chang sides – The case of Gisèle Pelicot is used to visualise the everyday identity of sexual offenders. It is made clear that perpetrators are not monsters, but ordinary people encountered in everyday life. Photos from Gisèle’s home village and neighbourhood are accompanied by texts about the perpetrators.
Student: Hannah Norford
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Germany’s biggest demonstration – the newspaper is dead, yet almost half of all Germans read it every day. That’s why all daily newspapers print demonstration posters on page 01, bringing the call to participate in our democracy to every newsstand, to many kitchen tables and, above all, into many people’s hands.
Student: Paul Knop
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Summit of the Future – Is humanity changing technology or is technology changing humanity? Nine students investigated this research question and developed visual commentaries. The result is a modular poster exhibition.
Students: Paul Knop, Kaja Funke, Alexandra Trinkl, Milli Keil
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Alleinsein – Breaking News: We are all alone. This newspaper is an illustrated collection of stories, anecdotes, tales and facts about being alone.
Student: Emma Bervard
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Prof. Henning Wagenbreth, Prof. Dr. Katrin Peters
Emotionsbehälter – Each of us is like a container for emotions in which joy, anger, sadness and happiness exist. Different emotions are merged in the candles and flow with the burning of the candles.
Student: Qianxue Zhang
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Emoji Ornament 🙂 – Emojis are not only expressions of feelings, but they also influence our emotions, especially when we are bombarded with them repeatedly in chats and social media. This is exemplified in the work “Emoji Ornament”: an interactive code consisting of a series of Apple emojis. Java Interectiv Code: https://emojiornament.alessandrafochesato.com/
Student: Alessandra Fochesato
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Dictionary of Emotions – Understanding emotions can often be difficult. One way of dealing with your own emotions and communicating them is through language. This collection of terms provides an overview of the language of emotions.
Student: Hannah Stöwe
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Rundgang Poster – How does Rundgang feel like? Communication proposals for the UdK Sommerrundgang 2024
Students: Poster 1: Penelope Hehl, Poster 2: Sevasti Giannitsi, Poster 3: Gerrit Ludwig und Mélan Rouillon, Poster 4: Sergey Kuchin
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Project Europa
France-Germany banknotes – The banknotes show in a humorous way how a good friendship develops: getting to know each other, eating together and dancing together. At the same time, they represent common symbols of French and German culture and celebrate Franco-German friendship. The project was funded by OFAJ/DFJW
Student: Liyue Wang
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Intervention as communication
Your data, your choice – Our data is collected in excess. But no one seems to realise the risks.
The campaign brings the abstract topic closer and shows its relevance. Informative, confrontational.
Student: Nick Gollanek
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Intervention as communication
The cultural waistcoat – More than 20 nightlife venues in Berlin are to make way for the extension of the A100. Therefore, cultural waistcoats were hung in front of the clubs to draw attention to this deplorable state of affairs.
Student: Antony Langeheinecke
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Branding + UX/UI Design – This website sensitises companies and designers to the changes in a digital brand world and promotes the necessary collaboration between branding and UX/UI designers.
Student: Elisabeth Schachoff
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Prof. Jürgen Schulz, KM Gosia Warrink
SH!NEEY Magazine – Whether as a politically correct counter copy to Bravo or contemporary social criticism in y2K aesthetics. SH!NEEY creates a diverse and inclusive space for open, experimental and critical contributions.
Students: Angelika Pientka, Leonor Gläser, Luca Wunderlich, Antonia Gericke
Lecturer: Prof. Fons Hickmann, Prof. Barbara Kotte
The Change Project
Monsterrüben – Too crooked, too crooked, too small. There are many reasons why fruits and vegetables don’t make it into stores.
With our »Monsterrüben« campaign, we want to change the perception of crooked fruits and vegetables: from ugly to magical. Too crooked, too big, too small, it doesn’t matter – the main thing is organic, fresh, and delicious!
Students: Iulia Volokhina, Shilong Xu
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
The Change Project
MainTrain – »mainTrain« is a fact-based Instagram eco- campaign, designed to promote train usage. With an online presence and stickers distributed around train stations in Berlin, the campaign reminds people that trains are one of the most eco-friendly travel methods.
Students: Nil Cakmak, Cho Wonkyung
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Project Null
Nichtssagend – “Nichtssagend” is a variation of a memory game where you must find the matching picture to a certain word. In the end, the pictures form a shape on the game board. The game includes 3 variations of game boards that form the number “0”, the word “null” or the word “zero”.
Students: Nil Cakmak, Renata Altenfelder Dias, Dominic Gollanek, Katica Pejic, Yui Yamagishi, Shillong Xu
Lecturers: Prof. Fons Hickmann, Prof. Barbara Kotte
The Change Project
About the meaning of music in the concentration camp Theresienstadt – Performance with eyewitness accounts, including songs and texts by the Jewish writer Ilse Weber, performed on 27.01.23 on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at three locations of the UdK Berlin.
Student: Charlotte Riemann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Calzone Rivoluzione – is a volunteer pizza collective that supports activism against the right and for climate justice and a society based on solidarity with pizza from its self-built oven. The design system was developed in a participatory process and can be used independently by the collective.
Student: Charlotte Riemann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Overstimulated – Why do so many people strive for the same face? Why is individuality demonized? Who decides what a good or bad face is? Why do faces have to be symmetrical? Why is cosmetic surgery becoming normal? Why do we think we have to change our faces? Is there such a thing as the perfect face? And: How did we let it get this far?
Student: Anna Lenhardt
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Alles Krise? – The inflationary use of the term “crisis” makes it less serious and, as a result, actual crises lose visibility. We need a more differentiated wording.
Thanks to LucasFonts for sharing the font “TheSans” with me.
Student: Fanny Ebeling
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Archive Identity & Resistance – How do the things we surround ourselves shape us? „Das Maß der Dinge“ is a book in which 9 collectors open the doors to their inner selves through their treasures.
Student: Peter Wendebourg
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Martian Language – Tħė Måřțîåñ låñġūåġė îş å mî×țūřė ōf çħåřåçțėřş fřōm våřîōūş låñġūåġėş, ωħėřė țħė çėñşōřşħîÞ ōf ōÞîñîōñş ōñ țħė îñțėřñėț fåîlş. Įț îş å mėțħōď ōf țħė ďîġîțål åġė țō Þūřşūė fřėė şÞėėçħ. Ōūř ōÞîñîōñş şħōūlď bė şėėñ.
www.martianlanguage.com
Student: Qianxue Zhang
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Designing with AI – Willie Neumann has created a digital three-dimensional object together with Chat GPT. Always alternating. The starting point was a dot.
Student: Willie Neumann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Manja Ebert, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Peters
Grundgesetz für alle – The “Grundgesetz für alle” initiative is in favour of amending Article 3, Paragraph 3 of the Basic Law to protect sexual and gender identity. A documentation of the protest.
Student: Alexandra Trinkl
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
On Basic Rights and Basic Duties – Does every right also imply a duty? This work analyses and dissects the relationship between the state and the individual as manifested in the Basic Law. The interaction encourages reflection on wishes, rights and duties. Analogue and digital merge into the bureaucratic component of law.
Student: Milli Keil
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
AUGEN ZU, DRÜCKEN – In uncertain times, young people use social media with filter bubbles, echo chambers and reinforcing functions. The work questions media use and enables people to recognise basic rights and opportunities in social spaces.
Student: Vincent Maigler
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
They know you better than your friends – The internet has revolutionised our lives. We communicate, work, shop and get information online, often without realising how much data we are giving away. Personal information such as interests and location can be collected and used by third parties. Without data protection, we risk our privacy, security and freedom.
Student: Penelope Hehl
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Lovedestined – Do you believe in zodiac signs? Unlike the Western zodiac signs, which are calculated monthly, the Chinese twelve zodiac signs are based on the year. And they are often used in daily life, including character analyses, predicting fate and selecting a partner.
Student: Liyue Wang
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Gosia Warrink, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hromada
Ego Boost – This installation, after detecting your face, compliments you if you listen to it’s cloned voice saying “COME CLOSER”. The robot simulates a basic human interaction: receiving a nice compliment. I wanted to question our relationship with social media, which over-stimulates our need for social validation. You can try the Ego Boost online, it use open source AI tools and the face detection is programmed with java-script library.
Student: Mélan Rouillon
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Scrolling through emotions – We often tend to open social media without consciously thinking about it. We never know what content awaits us and what emotions we will encounter in a matter of seconds. What will be triggered in us? What will affect us in the long term?
Student: Penelope Hehl
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Found Emotions – How is the house façade doing and why is the street lamp so cheerful? A collection of a search for emotions, faces and small details in public spaces and their interplay with their surroundings.
Student: Paul Knop
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Rundgang Poster – How does Rundgang feel like? Communication proposals for the UdK Sommerrundgang 2024
Students: Poster 1: Gerrit Ludwig und Mélan Rouillon, Poster 2: Liyue Wang und Qianxue Zhang, Poster 3: Kaja Funke, Nick Gollanek und Julius Tiemann, Poster 4: Charlotte Riemann und Giada Armante
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Project Europa
Common language unites – In celebration of Franco-German friendship. List of similar words with the same meaning in German and French as an A5 brochure, as well as A1 poster with identical words in both languages. The project was funded by OFAJ/DFJW
Student: Hannah Stöwe
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Intervention as communication
Complicity scarf for #politicalbeauty – With the complicity scarf, supporters of the Centre for Political Beauty can identify themselves during actions as well as in everyday life. It can be worn as a disguise, scarf, headscarf or flag. The accompanying social media campaign with the hashtag #politischeschönheit draws attention to this.
Students: Giada Armante, Agniia Meshalkina
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Intervention as communication
Apfelheim, Where did the elderly go? – More than 200 elderly people in need of care used to live in the Pro Seniore Residenz at Hackeschen Höfe. Today, an Apple Store is located here. The intervention @apfelheim commemorates the former nursing home and calls on people to document displacement with the hashtag #DisplacedBerlin.
Student: Giada Armante
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
The Change Project
Openness and Insight – This is an everyday story about a great moment of insight. And it illustrates how change is possible – if we simply examine our patterns.
Distributed via the magazine holders of Berlin’s public transport company “BVG”, every passenger can experience how peace, respect, and tolerance can lead to better relations with one another.
Student: Julius Riek
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Text and Storytelling
Postcard series with texts written by students as part of the course Text & Storytelling.
The postcard series is available in the UdK Shop https://shop.udk-berlin.de
Students: Hannah Stöwe, Janine Aschenbrenner, Jo-Moritz Krah, Josef Schneble, Julius Riek, Michl Best, Moana Schorlemer Filipe, Raviva Valmy C. Nsiama, Shilong Xu
Lecturers: Sonja Knecht
UdK 2041
Performance Laboratelier II – 20 years UdK Berlin – in the symposium “Laboratelier II” we looked back and forward. Members of the UdK, therefore, had the opportunity to submit contributions to the question “UdK (2001+20+20) 2041 – What are you?”. And these were staged by the class Campaigns with students of the acting course.
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Design for K#4lasse K#3ampagnen
2022 K#6lasse K#6ampagnen has been relaunched with the replacement of Prof. Barbara K#9otte. A new corporate design has been created for this – or should we say “K#9orporate”? Because everything revolves around the K#6: K#2rass, K#3arma, K#6leistpark, K#2lotzt, K#8ussecht, K#1onkret, K#1olossal, K#8lasse K#5ampagnen.
Students: Josefine Nitzsche, Julius Riek
Lecturers: Anja Steinig
Project Null
() – The composition shows how the German language produces neologisms: Word stems are combined and, when put together, form new terms. The work () explicates this madeness by playing with rehearsed pairs; led ad absurdum, non-sense objects emerge that invite linguistic reflection.
Students: Vincent Carter, Indra Frings, Stefanie Messner, Niclas Moos, Jean-Noël Teschauer
Lecturers: Prof. Fons Hickmann, Prof. Barbara Kotte
Kiek ma Ampel – One button, one moment of eye contact. We often walk past each other in everyday life – this traffic light wants to change that. Here you can start a short interaction with another person at the touch of a button.
Student: Paul Knop
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Hast du dich je selbst gesehen? – You have never seen yourself as others see you. How often do you look at yourself from perspectives from which others see you? The self-image is being questioned and rediscovered.
Student: Matilda Venter
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Fame*ish – Impersonators navigate daily between their own self and the role of another. Behind the façade of fame lie complex questions of identity. Where does the performance end, and where does the true self begin?
Student: Penelope Hehl
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Archive Identity & Resistance – This publication was born out of the question of archives and the place they have had and still have in our society. Produced in a quasi-archival format in wich each document has it`s own category. Gaps, abbrevations indecipherable documents, lanquage barriers, all these are part of it.
Student: Antonia Castellanos
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Sibel Beyer
Protest for Reproductive Rights – The work sheds light on the history and discourse of reproductive freedom, in other words self-determination regarding pregnancy or abortion. After all, the fact that they are in the german penal code is not without consequences.
Student: Hannah Stöwe
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
History Stamps – On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Basic Law, this stamp series shows important events that have shaped the Basic Law and the political climate in Germany.
Student: Julius Tiemann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Germany celebrates 75 years Grundgesetz – This poster series is intended to send out positive energy. It should remind people in Germany of their rights and that they enjoy many freedoms in this country that should not be taken for granted. The first 3 articles of the “Grundgesetz” are each represented by a poster. The images are 3d modeled.
Student: Anneli Dormann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Crestura – This work is a multi-layered exploration of the process of growing up. Inspired by cracked ammonite shells, the armor composed of flaws and imperfections is a metaphor for understanding human maturation and transformation in the context of life and death.
Student: Iuliia Volokhina
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Louise Borinski, Prof. Dr. Miriam Österreich
That Data Thing – For many people, data protection is an annoying, abstract and unnecessary topic that they would rather avoid. Just click on Accept and that’s that. The ‘THAT DATA THING’ campaign creates transparency, visualises the abstract topic and approaches data protection with a playful twist.
Student: Nick Gollanek
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Gosia Warrink, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hromada
Mixed-Messages – The design of a word influences its meaning and emotion. Messages can be formed from this collection of words, which can be interpreted differently based on the design.
Student: Nick Gollanek
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
TABU – The platform TABU creates a space in which stigmas are broken and learned narratives are questioned – in which we don’t take sex, but above all ourselves, too seriously. With a ruthlessly honest design and a product range that makes you smile, we are confronting feelings of shame.
Students: Kaja Funke, Julius Tiemann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Rundgang Poster – How does Rundgang feel like? Communication proposals for the UdK Sommerrundgang 2024
Students: Poster 1: Linus von Appen und Paul Knop, Poster 2: Fanny Ebeling, Poster 3&4: Oksana Sukhova
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, Anja Steinig
Unlearning University – The symposium is based on the Critical Diversity Policy of the UdK Berlin and invites all students to discuss and try out knowledge critical of discrimination and transformative practice in the arts in various formats together with international guests.
Student: Charlotte Riemann, Giada Armante, Yui Yamagishi
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Project Europa
Paris in Berlin – In Germany, “French flair” is often used for marketing purposes. In Berlin, “savoir-vivre” meets Berliner Schnauze something new is created: French air in Berlin. The project was funded by OFAJ/DFJW
Student: Julius Riek
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Intervention as communication
Sticker Campaign for the ZPS – With the campaign, everyday objects become evidence and supporters become multipliers for the Centre for Political Beauty.
Student: Nick Gollanek
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Intervention as communication
Manspread No– Manspreading on public transport is not only a space problem, but also an example of toxic male behaviour. This campaign draws attention to the problem and confronts those involved.
Student: Agniia Meshalkina
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte, KM Gosia Warrink
Reclaiming Resilience – Resilience-critical quotations were printed on elastic, resilient fabric in the original sense of the word. In this way, the term resilience is returned to its original meaning. At the same time, a space for protest is created.
Student: Anna Beilmann
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
The Change Project
Therapy Guide – The process of finding a therapist is often difficult. There is a lack of transparent information and access to therapy is limited. Our guide delivers an easy way. With helpful information and simple step-by-step instructions, we offer orientation when you need it the most.
Students: Elisabeth Schachoff, Hannah Stöwe, Liyue Wang, Nick Gollanek
Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Kotte
Project Null
Smoke & Soap Bubble – In this work, zero is understood as the center of a dialectic process that continually oscillates back and forth between two opposites. In an experiment, six designers react to each other in a cycle. In the process, a work is continuously interpreted and then an antipole to it is formed. The result: 48 images, fanned out in a chain of reactions.
Students: Josephine Aymar, Anna Beilmann, Lisa Leitgeb, Willie Neumann, Paul Pacher, Iuliia Volokhina
Lecturers: Prof. Fons Hickmann, Prof. Barbara Kotte