INCLUSIVE MANUFACTURING – RETHINK REPRODUCTION
WHAt’s THE STORY?!
a cooperation with A&W x DIM
Projekt:
Modul 5: 90504, Entwurf 1
Modul 9: 90904, Entwurf 2
(Students from 4. 6+ semester
+ MA Anpassungsstudierende)
When & where:
Mondays & Tuesdays
Room 202/203
Kick off
14 April 14.30 room, 202
Language
German and english
Supervision
Design & Social Context
Prof. Ineke Hans
KM Justus Hilfenhaus
Guests & cooperations
• LB Eva Feldkamp, All in Awe
• Uta Abendroth & Karen Hartwig,
A&W Magazine/AW Newcomershop
• Timo Schierholz, DIM (Die Inklusive
Manufaktur) / U-S-E
• Insa Ruckdeschel & Tim Schudzich, UdK:shop
Excursion
28 April, 9.00am: a tour at DIM manufakturen, Kreuzberg and information and introduction with A&W
Please note
– the course is open for max 18 students
– the project has presentations till Febr. 2026,
please make sure that you can be involved till then
This summersemester we work together with A&W Magazine (one of the leading magazines on architecture, interiors and design in Germany) and DIM manufakturen in Berlin Kreuzberg (workshops for people with a distance to the labourmarket).
As a start we visit the DIM workshops and get an introduction by A&W magazine who started the AW newcomer-shop. From there onwards you will work out a number of concepts for products which are relevant, which can be made in small series, sold in the AW newcomer-shop and potentially made by the inclusive DIM workshops.
Questions to be answered in this project:
in a world full of stuff…
– what do we still produce?
– what is relevant and can be nice to have or give?
if you design small series for reproduction…
– how do you work and prepare your design for a workshop?
– how to use and include the expertise of its makers?
– how to make a design affordable, send it and pack it?
and last but not least: how can we tell the stories ?!…
– how to tell stories with objects and about design?
– how to include the stories of the makers?
– and how to communicate the different layers in your project?
How does this project procede and end?
– at the final presentation in July potential projects will be selected for the AW newcomer-shop
– early autumn the projects, students and makers will be photographed for a report to be published in the printed and online A&W Christmas magazines
– for the online shop A&W buys small series of the smaller objects, bigger objects are made to order
– in February 2026 we will show at the Talents-section of the Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt where the projects will be presented as newcomers in the AW newcomer-shop
Who else is is integrated for support?
– Eva Feldkamp designer and founder of the All in Awe a platform for social projects
– UdK:shop, which sells projects designed by UdK students will share their experiences and expertise and as part of the Rundgang expo we might prepare a shop with them.
Please find more information on all who will be involved below.
Find a German project-text here (link coming).
For questions you can send an email to
