Global Experimental Live-Lab [GEL-Lab] Design Studio

Team:
75 participants from 5 continents
working in groups of 8 students
in 2 tracks, each 6 weeks long.

UdK Students:
Atasayar, Destina
Stefan Damnig
Dain, Park
Dirk Erdmann
Dietz, Janik
Loebach Dennis
Asamoah, Marek
Aleksander Luczak

About the project:

Globally We Design (GloWD) is an independent global thought-leadership think-tank started some five years ago. It exists to identify, explore, and formulate, as well as disseminate new thinking for all design disciplines, practices and processes. GloWD aims to address ever more pressing and contemporary problems facing humanity today. Comprised of visionary and forward-looking designers and design educators, GloWD facilitates leading-edge conversations and connections across all design disciplines. GloWD achieves outcomes that expand the reach, impact, and viability of applied design into the future. Adopting universal values, GloWD strives to affect a positive global impact through and by design. GloWD’s GEL-Lab Design Studio was conceived three years ago, well in advance of the COVID-19 pandemic. This project presents a unique opportunity for multidisciplinary, multigenerational, and multinational intellectuals and creatives to collaboratively and iteratively explore new design frontiers for all aspects of applied design.

Find the full project documentation here.

The Challenge:

Identify and address any societal issue of great impact. This can be of any type or scale but must require immediate investigation and intervention for civic needs, opportunities, and possibilities for people across the world. Projects ranging from the massive (identification, review of, and preparation for the cataclysmic) to the intimate (handheld objects, digital/apps, graphics and communications), including investigations into living systems and the built environment, policy positioning for government, economic systems, and ways of ownership may be studied, designed and presented as design deliverables. Designed deliverables are required to holistically address project specifics, including the physical, mental, emotional, economic, scientific, and social aspects.

The Moment | Team Ängeslevä

Stand by you | Team arbely

Musico | Team castellanos / díaz barriga morales

Liveable | Team wilde

Links

https://www.globallywedesign.com/2020-gel-lab-design-studio
https://www.instagram.com/_glowd/