Experimental design

The experimental design courses are open to all students enrolled in the three bachelor's and master's degree programs in communication design, industrial design, and photography. Here, students experiment with a wide variety of content, media, and materials. In an open-ended artistic process, students decide for themselves which path to take and base their further development on the course of their experiments and their personal interests: material investigations, speculative designs, poetic objects as impulses for further design processes, or sculptures, objects, images, installations, graphics, or films in the sense of autonomous artistic works. In most cases, a concept is at the center of the courses, such as "the animated thing," "time," "present-absent," or "encrypted worlds." These concepts have a catalytic function and are not to be understood as tasks: they form a beginning—a seed of condensation—and enable a constantly new entry into the depths and shallows of all possible personal, real, poetic, absurd, and serious object and image worlds.