Kick-Off: 14th Oct 10 am
Dates: Weekly Monday + Tuesday, 13.10.2025 – 14.02.2025
Time: 10:00-18:00
Location: Room R402 / R403
Bring: If possible, a laptop + caliper
Lecturer:
Aeneas Stankowski
Lukas Henneberger
BE HERE NOW
In this course you will design projects, objects, interfaces, environments, rituals, tools and systems that create presence. what can you actually do to shift how someone experiences being here now?
Time- and attention spans directly influence how we view tasks and contexts. Flexibility and movement forfeit arrival and presence. Rather than accidental or symptomatic, this is designed into the interfaces, systems, and spaces we inhabit.
This course works from a simple premise: if distraction is designed, presence can be designed too.
Presence isn’t one thing. For some it’s flow, an unconscious fluid experience. For others it’s introspection, or a moment of revelation. It can manifest itself in free will or intentionality: choosing where attention goes instead of having it being directed by external stimuli. Presence can be experienced collectively and individually.
Come together for a very present winter semester. Among our guests for this semester, in collaboration with DAM:
Yannick Rohloff + Max Kuwertz, 1×1 Systems
Isabel Schnalle + Paul Keilholz, Threads & Tits
Maciej Chmara, Chmara.Rosinke
Lena Weber, Lena Weber
Niklas Muhs, Lovable
Lisa Ertel + Anne-Sophie Oberkrome, Studio OE
Nathali Opris, Konstantin Grcic Design
Max Hausmann, IKEA
