Toolbox – Iterations
Design Basics Seminar Series
2024 –
Iterations is an in-depth introduction to the foundations of design practice, situated between gestural technique, analogue experimentation, and digital production. Building heavily on methods of Stegreif exercises as an experimental warm-up and problem-specific formats, the seminar approaches design as a form of processual research.
Students begin with a seemingly random object of their choosing — extended through a functional intervention — serves as the starting point. Its physical materialisation becomes the basis for a sequence of technical and technological operations: from modelling and mould-making, 3D scanning and milling paths, through to relief printing. Throughout, materials and tools are explored as active partners in the design process rather than passive instruments.
The aim is to reflect on the interplay between hand, material, and machine — and to develop iterative strategies that mediate between experiment, precision, and intuition.
Image Credits: c SPENI
Project Credits:
Mario Alber, Ilgiz Alpysbayev, Adele Fridolina Anhalt, Julia Bergmann, Jolina Brandt, Julia Braun, Maria Brenneis, Christian Dietrich, Jan Distler, Lukas Eifrig, Stefanie Ernst, Anica Groß, Maximilian Grund, Ben Hahnefeld, Tom Hallbauer, Fabian Hamm, Philipp Hansen, Cosima Heinz, Monique Helzel, Mathis Hirschlipp, Leonie Hobert, Raynaldo Istanto, Celina Jung, Celine Kaiser, Toni Kertscher, Benjamin Koch, Lea Köhler, Tobias Korth, Ezra Kraft, Marika Krause, Victoria Mann, Laetitia Massier, Jessica Matla, Jannis May, Ole Möller, Tom Netzker, Sabrina Noae, Cécile Picking, Jule Quellhorst, Moritz Recke, Vanessa Richter, Marie Ruthe, Nele Schmerler, Celine Schuck, Marven Schürer, Annabell Selig, Marta Senff, Josephine Tomnitz, Carlo Twiste, Nicolas Vogt, Laura Weimer, Alexander Wiese, Jonas Wolff, Anna Ziemann, Anne Katrin Zitzmann, Josefine Zwick
Jannis May (Fabrication Tutor)
Frank Bauer, Markus Lager (Direction)