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Events in the field of design science

Winter semester 2019/20

Introduction to the history of design

  • Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Cordula Meier
  • Monday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m
  • Understanding design-historical contexts is an important prerequisite for future design thinking. The event is committed to this idea.

The aesthetic phenomenon of gentrification

  • Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Cordula Meier
  • Monday 9-11
  • The term 'gentrification' is on everyone's lips. In addition to an attempt to define the term, the role of the phenomenon for art and design will be discussed.

How is so-called good taste constructed in the past and today?

  • Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Cordula Meier
  • Thursday 9-11
  • The concept of taste from different times and different social constructions will be discussed. Using texts from art history and design theory, an attempt will be made to understand our own judgment of taste.
  • Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Cordula Meier
  • Master colloquium
  • n.a.

Text - Language - Rhetoric

  • Astrid Meirose, MA
  • Monday 13-15 h
  • Writing and language skills are fundamental prerequisites (not only) for successful studies.
  • But how do you write scientifically, informatively and objectively? How do you make a text comprehensible and descriptive without appearing banal?
  • The seminar aims to provide a technically confident approach to different (scientific) text types. To this end, a number of text types will be introduced, analyzed and differentiated. These text types will then be tested in practical exercises. There will also be a focus on academic reading. Methods of text indexing are taught and practiced.

Fly Me to the Moon - Aesthetics, aviation and landing on the moon

  • Dr. Mona Mönnig
  • Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00
  • The Men in the Moon - A collective media event and its indexicality
  • Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell were the first people to see the far side of the Earth's satellite with their own eyes as the crew of the first manned flight to the moon in 1968. On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin set foot on the brittle, magma-solidified surface of the Sea of Tranquillity at 3:54 a.m. Central European Time on Apollo 11 in front of an estimated 500 to 600 million television viewers. These first steps on the moon were broadcast live in many countries and broke viewer records in the western world as the biggest television event of all time. The journey to the Earth's satellite drew its fascinating effect primarily from its mediality, as the documentary filmmaker William Karel emphasizes when he claims that 'without images of the moon landing, the event would not have happened! But what if all the images that went around the world after the launch of an (unmanned) rocket from Cape Canaveral came from a specially set up film set in Area 51? What if it really was enough to simulate the moon program and provide the public with the corresponding television images? What if the images themselves are the event?
    In addition to the collectivity of the media event and its indexicality, the seminar also examines the significance of aerospace for design. The moon landing undoubtedly became a turning point in the history of culture and media and thus had a significant influence on the history of design. Based on collaborative research and discussion, the seminar aims to track down and work on design-relevant phenomena based on the journey to the moon. To this end, research will not be conducted exclusively on the object, but also by means of biographical data.