Research
Science and research are an essential element of modern cultures. They analyze, assess, and form the basis for our individual being and the conditions of our social order. This is especially true for the evolution of current media technologies, which has not only resulted in a new interaction between work, life and communication, but that have also become a challenge for our understanding of the world as a whole.
Our university is reacting to these changes by also supporting research projects, in addition to offering courses. These projects can be theoretical and conceptual or artistic and design-based. Their approaches encompass both historical and contemporary sets of problems in equal measure. Since 2014, this work has been coordinated by the Institute for Design Research (IF) at University of Europe for Applied Sciences. In addition to supporting projects and quality assurance, this institute has become a place where research topics are freely discussed and experiments are conducted. The mutual premise is the awareness that the creation, the transfer, and the use of social infrastructures are also always a question of design. As a matter of fact, design strategies often provide the decisive impulses today for the renewal of or changes in interactions within society.
The research projects atour university are built on an interdisciplinary foundation. On the one hand, as a result of the change in importance of design, the number of career fields has risen for designers, who increasingly have to be able to work in development teams beyond applications or services. On the other hand, it is necessary to tie in theoretical disciplines, which allow the knowledge to take on material and operative dimensions.
The research results are integrated into University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE)’s courses on offer. Furthermore, they are published as a single book in a series and thus set out to promote discussion. In this way, our university is also facing its responsibility towards a dynamic society, one that is open to the future.
Institute for Design Research (IF)
The Institute for Design Research (IF) was established in the 2015 summer semester. As an integral part of AUCH, it allows us to initiate, coordinate, and support our research projects.
The main research topics are based on the interfaces between design, media art, science, and technology. Digital tools and culture-based techniques also play a special role. In a diverse number of ways, connections to the business world and the integration of the university are leveraged in subject-specific or career-based networks.
Projects
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Virtual Bachelor and Master exhibition: WE MISS GETTING LOST
WE MISS GETTING LOST – we invite you to a virtual exhibition with live vernissage on 12th February 2021 at 6 pm.
At exhibition.ue-germany.com, around 190 projects from the Berlin and Hamburg campuses of the Faculty of Art & Design from the winter semester 2020/21 will be presented.
The multi-facetted works highlight relevant societal, social, political and artistic topics. In addition to an exhibition architecture that looks back and symbolically visualizes an eventful year under the motto WE MISS GETTING LOST, the platform will be expanded to include an AI-supported and intelligent search function.
Bachelor's and Master's projects from the study programmes Film & Motion Design B.A., Photography B.A., Illustration B.A., Game Design B.A., Communication Design B.A., Photography M.A., Media Spaces M.A., Visual & Experience Design M.A., Innovation Design Management M.A. will be shown.
The exhibition opening will be live and interactive.
You can already view the published theses from the previous summer semester on the website.
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Virtual Bachelor and Master exhibition: WE MISS GETTING LOST
WE MISS GETTING LOST – the University of Europe for Applied Sciences invites you to a virtual exhibition on 12th February 2021 at 6 pm. At exhibition.ue-germany.com, around 190 projects from the Berlin and Hamburg campuses of the Faculty of Art & Design from the winter semester 20/21. The multi-facetted works highlight relevant societal, social, political and artistic topics. The exhibition opening will be live and interactive.
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Save the Date
WE MISS GETTING LOST
VIRTUAL BA/MA EXHIBITION
Friday, 12th February 2021
Interactive Live Vernissage: 6 pm
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Design & Keyvisual
Amit Heyman, Teona Kokhodze, Miguel Ribeiro Da Saude (1st phase)
Background
Since the "Rundgänge" cannot take place physically at the campuses as usual, the Faculty of Art & Design has coordinated all its efforts to bring the new Digital Publishing Platform to life, to present the final work, in the summer of 2020. In this special graduation year, a group of UE students and alumni have now joined this research project for the second time, under the direction of the artistic-scientific researchers Evelyn Solinski and Steffen Klaue as well as Prof. Dr. Lauritz Lipp and project manager Rana Öztürk. Together with the students Amit Heyman, Teona Kokhodze, Jannis Lange, Pia Roespel and Luisa Wilhelmsen as well as UE alumni Dennis Josek and Alexander Morosow, an innovative platform has been developed that explores the ways of digital publishing. WE MISS GETTING LOST became the motto for a project implemented at a time when space, as well as movement within it, are being rethought. The sustainable design of visual possibilities of unity through exhibitions, publication as well as dialogue and making projects readable are being rediscovered.
Bachelor's and Master's projects from the study programmes Film & Motion Design B.A., Photography B.A., Illustration B.A., Game Design B.A., Communication Design B.A., Photography M.A., Media Spaces M.A., Visual & Experience Design M.A., Innovation Design Management M.A. will be shown.
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Virtual Bachelor and Master exhibition: OPEN MIND
The University of Applied Sciences Europe invites you to the very first virtual Art & Design exhibition on 7 August 2020.
This semester, the University of Applied Sciences Europe (UE) is taking a somewhat different approach than usual. This year's exhibition of the Art & Design department's bachelor's and master's theses can be viewed virtually from August 7.
Since the beginning of the Corona crisis in March, the entire university has been operating as a Campus in the Cloud. All teaching has been converted to take place digitally and now the very first virtual exhibition will also be available.
According to the motto "OPEN MIND" the final theses from the Art & Design departments will be on display at archiv.ue-germany.com from 7 August.
These include bachelor’s and master’s theses from the Film + Motion Design, Photography, Illustration, Game Design, Communication Design, Media Spaces, Visual & Experience Design und Innovation Design Management.The impetus for this year's motto, "OPEN MIND", also came from the switch to virtual teaching and learning; all students and teachers have had to expand their skills in developing, creating, designing and interacting. In the process, they all learned to think outside the box and to allow new perspectives.
Save the Date:
VIRTUAL BA/MA EXHIBITION: OPEN MIND
- Friday, August 7, 2020
- Interactive Live-Openning: 5pm
- Virtual Live-Party: 10pm
- Where: archiv.ue-germany.com
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U_Electric talks: The future of the digital identity
Stepping into the tradition of pitch presentation formats such as “Pecha Cucha”, “Lightning Talks” and “Nerd Nite”, UE is introducing a new virtual format: U_Electric talks.
Starting this summer term, every semester five interdisciplinary talks will be conducted on topics including the digital society, artificial intelligence and business, creative arts and technology as well as innovation and the next generation digital learning environment.
Inventive spirit and curiosity at UE drive us to explore, unite cross-disciplinary knowledge and to offer research topics to a public audience.
The talks and Q&A sessions will last 15 minutes each and will be held by UE professors and expert guests. They will also be live-streamed via the UE Facebook channel.
10 June 2020 – Prof. Katharina Mayer | Rana Öztürk (UE Berlin)
Analog deceleration and digital compressionThe coronavirus has forced us into quarantine and home offices which has made us reassess the value of silence. This drastic event is used in many areas to think about reforms and raises questions about one's own identity in relation to the (digital) world. In our U_Electric Talk series we think about the future of digital identity and open a discourse with colleagues and guests who talk about their findings in 15-minute live streams.
15 June 2020 – Guest: Horst Wackerbarth
Questions about digital and analog authenticity"I am afraid that I can contribute little to nothing on the subject. The future of digital identity may be for people's communication and play a practical role but not for me as an artist ...All attempts to establish the red couch as an avatar, as an alter ego on the Internet I have consistently refused. Images on the monitor do not return my view and become interchangeable and arbitrary. The original image belongs in the hand and on the wall, framed, on paper, in the book and in the exhibition. This is the only way the silent image enters into a dialogue with the viewer...The creed for art: Instead of digital identity, prefer analog authenticity!"
22 June 2020 – Guest: Dr. Emanuel Mir (State Office for Visual Arts from NRW, Cologne, Münster)
Digital identity from the deficit of the real worldWhen artists deal with the modes of communication and content of social media, they mostly pursue two main concerns: either they want to draw attention to themselves and use the digital possibilities to market and establish their work, or they dismantle the rules and the logic of the said social medias to expose their manipulative mechanisms. In the first case, the artist builds a digital identity out of a deficit in the "real" world, in the second case he acts as a watchful observer in a general social-media development, its knitting cases (self-stylisation, "mission-consciousness ", Egotrip, etc.) he parodied them.
29 June 2020 – Prof. Dr. Iris Lorscheid
Dark Data. - Stories about the potentials and risks of dataWorldwide we collect far more data than we can process. Large amounts of so-called "dark data" therefore slumber in our servers. New perspectives and the continuous development of new analysis methods direct our attention to dark data, which can also reach far into the past. This leads to many fears, but also holds great potential - not only from a business perspective. The talk discusses which paths dark data have already taken and which they might still take.
13 July 2020 – Prof. Dr. Jiré Gözen
In the digital spaceSince its formation as an independent scientific discipline, media science has dealt with the changes, fragmentations and dissolution of identity and reality through new (media) technologies as well as the emergence of the individual and society in the digital space. The considerations developed in theory were among others taken up by the authors of Cyberpunk Science Fiction, artistically played through on the level of extrapolated future worlds and further developed. In my contribution, I would like to briefly present the reflections on digital identity that have arisen in order to subsequently question and discuss them in relation to the present.
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