Ed Hawkins: warming stripes
Design & Social Context is keen to contribute to complex societal, political and strategic questions where design can play a role and even make a difference!
It is important that designers today are offered tools and opportunities to be prepared for future challenges that lay ahead of us in Design.
Climate Change is an important issue for our society and research into climate-change-orientated facts and figures and cooperations between (industrial) partners and researchers play a pivoting role in our projects. Design & Social Context aims to intensify closer cooperations between the applied arts, cultural, industrial and technological partners including research labs and let BA & MA students work and touch base with them in their design projects.
That is why Design & Social Context is for instance related to Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg, see profile
External research relations:
2021-2024: C-Dutch (Circular Design Using The Cultural Heritage) see and see Footprint 1850
Since 2018 a number of projects have been set that resulted in outcomes with potential impact on Climate Change and in award winning projects in the field of design.
Next to it, a number of graduates worked together with labs and Fraunhofer institutes coming up with exciting results.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
2024/2025: Food, Tools & Politics & Dare to share
PAST PROJECTS:
Since 2018: various Graduate projects
2024: Find Your Footprint, cooperation project with ZEITRAUM furniture
2023: ONE + ONE = ONE, reducing the amount of ’stuff‘
2022-2023: Circular Impact, design for What Design Can Do challenge
2021-2022: Supermarket of the Future, with CCC + Philipp Brandts (future supermarket)
2021-2022: One Material, One project, cooperation project with BASF
2020-2021: Find a Fact & Act, with intro’s from Nionhaus Berlin & Fraunhofer CeRRI
2020: Talking Shop, presents for planet earth
2019-2020: Past Present, including a mini symposium: Conservation for Innovation
2018-2019: New Grounds, with exhibitions at Istanbul Design Biennial & Bauhaus Archiv Berlin and mini symposium: What Design Can Do
2018: Power House, including a mini symposium: Sense & Sustainability
