Master's theses

By successfully completing their Master's thesis, students demonstrate their ability to carry out independent academic work. The plurality of topics reflects the breadth of the course.

Overview of all Master's theses submitted to Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Cordula Meier of all Master's theses submitted

• Tobias Ellinger: Current trends in user-centered product design - Experience Design: Utopia or reality? (summer semester 2018)
• Michelle Melissa Hiegemann: Design and communication. The relevance of design with regard to pedagogical teaching content using the example of comics (summer semester 2018)
• Jil Geyer: Reception possibilities of the work "Upekha" by Nermine Hammam (winter semester 2017/18)
• Viktoria Lea Heinrich: Design with Refugees. Investigating the collaboration between professional designers and non-design experts in the context of inclusion projects (winter semester 2017/18)
• Arne Meyer: The Aestheticization of Adventure. On the transformation of a state of emergency into worlds of experience and marketing (winter semester 2017/18)
• Christine Nüßle: Fashion photography in the 90s - back to the aesthetics of authenticity (winter semester 2017/18)
• Dominik Blase: The postcard - a design object of memory (summer semester 2017)
• Melanie Eiting: Tendencies of current design in industrial design. On existing and new tasks of the industrial designer (summer semester 2017)
• Marleen Grasse: Hella Jongerius - "What is Design?" (summer semester 2017)
• Svenja Hoffritz: Reflections on the situation of fashion in the 21st century. Current change strategies and innovation potentials of fashion based on the Anti-Fashion Manifesto by Lidewij Edelkoort (summer semester 2017)
• Miriam Hüning: Thomas Demand - Interpictoriality as an extended view of images (summer semester 2017)
• Olga Kolodii: The Ruhr Museum as an example of a hybrid museum. A consideration of space, content and design (summer semester 2017)
• Johanna Mehl: Identity through thing. Individualization of the mass product to constitute identity (summer semester 2017)
• Robin Nagel: Giving and experiencing identity. Staging, appropriation and object relationship (summer semester 2017)
• Nina-Marie Schüchter: The aesthetics of self-care as a contemporary phenomenon (summer semester 2017)
• Quingrun Wei: Ieoh Ming Pei and his museum architecture. The influence of traditional culture and identity on his architecture (summer semester 2017)
• Yasemin Gedek: Images in the Age of Augmented Reality. On the relevance of Vilém Flusser's theory of technical images in virtual worlds (winter semester 2016/17)
• Saskia Ketz: Death in the image. Post-mortem photography as a medium of memory (winter semester 2016/17)
• Lorena Markewitsch: The Studio Olafur Eliasson. Localized identity in the studio of the present (winter semester 2016/17)
• Viktoria Tolstych: Silence as an aesthetic phenomenon. Visual aesthetics of silence in modernist painting (winter semester 2016/17)
• Hanna Düspohl: Contemporary photography of the private sphere. Representation and change of exhibited intimacy (summer semester 2016)
• Jana van Thiel: The primacy of the social as a constitution of design (summer semester 2016)
• Tina Reichert: Digitality and Nature in Interactive Installation Art. An interdisciplinary symbiosis (winter semester 2015/16)
• Sandra Bischler: Thinking in systems at the Ulm School of Design. Scientific influences on the system design of the Visual Communication department (summer semester 2015)
• Jennifer Regett: Communication theories under the microscope - Investigation of reception behavior using the example of visually impaired people (summer semester 2015)
• Patrick Wendling: The concept of complexity in the design environment. Reflection on the term and its current and historical use in the design discourse (summer semester 2015)
• Linda Domanico: Kippenberger and the art market - On the marketing development of Martin Kippenberger's works (summer semester 2014)
• Svenja Rudolph: Photographic re-staging of art-historically ennobled paintings as an aesthetic phenomenon (summer semester 2014)
• Anne Weigel: "Craftsmanship in the digital age?" (Summer semester 2014)
• Najine Ameli: Design and social responsibility. A reflection on the task of design using the example of mobility (winter semester 2013/14)
• Daniel Bühler: The photographic image as an authentic sign using the example of the 132nd Ordinary Meeting of the Conference by Luc Delahaye (summer semester 2013)
• Jasmin Gad: Representations of authenticity using the example of the commercial advertisements of Bionade and HiPP (winter semester 2012/13)
• Anne Ballik: A comparative analysis of the relationship between theory and practice at the Bauhaus and the HfG Ulm (winter semester 2012/13)

As second reviewer

• Estelle Limbah: To design or not to be. On the omnipresence of design and its transcendental gratifications (winter semester 2016/17)
• Stephanie Hose: Aesthetic counterculture in Israel using the example of the Palestinian group Mukti Gathering (summer semester 2016)
• Lisa Maria Heyers: The aestheticization of the disenchanted world. Searching for meaning between religion, consumption and art (summer semester 2015)
• Julia Schuster: Why wander into the distance? Characteristics and perspectives of the telepresent society (winter semester 2014/15)
• Zhen Zhu: Shikumen Architecture in Shanghai - Investigation of Mixed Architectural Styles and Cultural Influences (winter semester 2014/15)
• Kathrin Klein: Wolfgang Mattheuer. Images of Man between Socialist Utopia and Political Reality (summer semester 2013)
• Yolanda Bossers: Deleuze's rhizomatic structures in the work of the artist Franz Ackermann (summer semester 2012)