Venice – Participation Matters with ASC
Students engage with activists of the Assemblea Sociale per la Casa (ASC) in the Casette neighborhood of Giudecca. ASC is Continue reading
Design for the Living World, HFBK
Design for the Living World was a class on participatory practices conducted by Marjetica Potrč at HFBK Hamburg / Hochschule für bildende Künste (the University of Fine Arts) Hamburg. It ran from 2011 to 2018. All visual material is copyright © Design for the Living World, HFBK. All the links were last confirmed on November 30, 2018.
Berlin – FUB Floating University Berlin
Students cultivate tomatoes, take care of the greenhouse, work on water infrastructures, biodiversity, plant mushrooms, map and engage with “the Continue reading
Volos – Craftspeople’s Network: Taking Matters into Your Own Hands
Students exchanged knowledge with craftspeople from the city of Volos, Greece, during two weeks in May 2018. The Craftspeople’s Network: Continue reading
Hamburg – RAOAL Refugee Academy Open Art Lab
During the winter semester, the students collaborated with the Refugee Academy Berlin to initiate the Refugee Academy Open Art Lab Continue reading
Hamburg – Food Security at There Is No Time
During the two days of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, the project There Is No Time organized panel discussions on Continue reading
Venice – Exercising Citizenship
The three-day workshop, where students used movement as communication tool, was a platform for imagining our future society and exploring Continue reading
Mexico – In Solidarity: Living, Making, Together
In Solidarity: Living, Making, Together, a group of four intersecting projects with discussions and an exhibition, developed over the course Continue reading
Politics and Love at the Kunstverein Hamburg
Politics and Love interprets Religion and Sentiment, one of 10 chapters in The History Show at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Continue reading
Berlin – Garden at the ZUsammenKUNFT
Together with refugees and local cultural initiatives, we started a garden at the ZUsammenKUNFT initiative, which took takes place from Continue reading
We Worked with: Dimensions of Together and Manufaktur Inclusive
Students participate in workshops and attend the Dimensions of Together conference at the Design Department, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Continue reading
Jessy Cohen – The Neighbourhood as Global Arena
The students of Design for the Living World and their guests attended the gathering The Neighbourhood as Global Arena at Continue reading
The Arizona Project – Conversations in Phoenix
A research and on-site project. The class of the Design for the Living World spent two months at the International Continue reading
We Care a Lot: Stewardship of Land In the Neighborhood, Conservation – Coalition – Collaboration
A research-based residency in Chicago and Detroit by students of the Design for the Living World class, at the invitation Continue reading
Berlin – Living with Soil and Water
During two weeks, from June 15–28 2015, the students of Design for a Living World met with several individuals and Continue reading
New York – The Invisible Lunch Discussions
The Invisible Lunch Discussions was a three-hour-long conversation with New Yorkers about affordable housing and living conditions in New York Continue reading
Neuenkirchen – The Open Shelter (Der offene Ort im Wald)
We were invited by the Springhornhof Foundation to design a shelter with, and for, the students of the Grund- und Continue reading
Soweto – The Soweto Project
The Soweto Project developed over the course of two months in early 2014 at two locations in Soweto – Orlando Continue reading
Savamala – A Place for Making
Savamala – A Place for Making is the outcome of a six-month process in which students proposed different approaches for Continue reading
We worked with: Göteborg – The Common Roof Project
The Common Roof project consisted of Göteborg Cooperative House, House, an ongoing construction; the Makers Fair, home inventions and DIY Continue reading
We Visited: London Mobility – Exploring the Commons
London Mobility was an excursion to the Hackney area in London to reconsider the reality of the commons – in Continue reading
Tromsø – A City as a Garden
The community-based project Tromsø – A City as a Garden is characterized by participatory design and a concern for sustainability. Continue reading
Fittja – The Common Roof Kitchen
The Common Roof Kitchen creates a temporary place where local residents can share drinks, meals, recipes, and stories from their Continue reading
St.Lambrecht – Gerichte auf Tischen
We gathered local recipes and constructed 100 tables. On Sunday June 24 we ate lunch on Marktplatz in St. Lambrecht Continue reading
Living on the River Island of Wilhelmsburg
Students research and develop projects that respond to the context and identity of the river island of Wilhelmsburg and the Continue reading
Wilhelmsburg – Laboratory for Interventions
Vom 6. bis zum 8 Juli 2012 gestalten Studierende der Hamburger Hochschule für bildende Künste HFBK, ein „Labor für Interventionen“, Continue reading
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