Welcome to the Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB, dear new students!





Wir möchten alle neu immatrikulierten Studierende an der HKB (und natürlich auch alle Semesterferien-Rückkehrer*innen) herzlich willkommen heissen! Während ihr euch nach der Immatrikulationsfeier heute Morgen nun wohl auf der «Tour de HKB» befindet, freuen wir uns darauf mit Euch heute Abend am HKB Fest auf euren ersten Tag anzustossen!

Minou Afzali, Professor of #SocialDesign at the Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB, answered Der Bund’s questions about the recently opened max bill global exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee. Read the whole interview (unfortunately behind a paywall) at https://www.derbund.ch/design-kann-ausgrenzen-aber-auch-integrieren-732106517504.





Die Ausstellung «Max Bill global» zeigt den Designer, Künstler und Architekten als Brückenbauer zwischen den Kontinenten. Warum er für Gestalter bis heute ein Vorbild ist, weiss Minou Afzali, Design-Professorin an der Hochschule der Künste Bern.

A reminder: The fourth KULINATA – das Festival für nachhaltige Ernährung takes a look into the future. From the Master Design, our students Florian Jakober will discuss sustainable food for all in the Future Talk II at the KULINATA Eröffnungsfest, and Andrea Staudacher will discuss how Swiss food culture could change in the long term in the Future Talk III. Find the whole program at https://www.kulinata.ch/#.





Das Festivalprogramm 2021 steht fest!

It is not often that our graduates decide to do a PhD. However, it has never happened that one of our graduates is awarded a highly competitive and fully-funded Doc.CH fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation just a few months after graduation. Congratulations, Maya Ober! We are more than impressed by this achievement and wish you all the best for your important project “Between the Classroom and the Streets: Feminist Practices in Design Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina”, which you will conduct at the Universität Bern! https://www.snf.ch/en/FudOhqJphsFaU4wt/news/docch-snsf-supports-22-doctoral-students-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences?





149 researchers applied for a grant under the Doc.CH funding scheme this spring, the highest number ever. The SNSF will now finance 22 doctoral theses.

We are looking forward to 12 new students (7 full-time, 5 part-time; 2 Entrepreneurship, 10 Research) and 1 visiting student, who will start their studies at the HKB MA Design this semester. Hasan, Setayesh, Veronica, Julian, Jasmine, Andrea, Martha, Magdalena, Dagna, Arlène, Lilith, Pania and Talayeh – a warm welcome to all of you!

💥🎉💸 Congratulations to our student Florian Jakober and our alumni Marius Disler, Xiaoqun Wu and Oliver Hischier for the Design Work Grants! Florian receives funding for the prototype development of his project Foodcoop Network, Marius a production funding for https://www.mikafi.com/ and Bienvenue Studios receives a project extension funding. At the same time, we would like to thank Pro Helvetia for this important funding scheme. You can find the list of all grants on https://designswitzerland.ch/2021/07/27/design-work-grants/.





20 projects were selected

Florian Jakober, actually a lecturer but currently a student in the Master Design, participates at the KULINATA in the Future Talk II “Vom Feld direkt ins Quartier – wie funktioniert das morgen?”. If you are interested, reserve September 18 from 12.30 and drop by at the Berner Generationenhaus! You can find the whole program at https://www.kulinata.ch/.





Das Festivalprogramm 2020 steht fest!

They made it! We congratulate our student Florian Jakober and his colleagues on the successful crowdfunding. With 294 supporters, they have completed the campaign "Foodcoops für Alle!" and received CHF 25,000. With this, they will develop a first beta version of the Foodcoop web platform and plan to launch it by the end of 2021. Read more about the project at https://wemakeit.com/projects/foodcoops-fuer-alle.





Foodcoops sind die nachhaltige Zukunft des Lebensmittelhandels: Wir entwickeln ein Starterkit und eine Webplattform, damit alle Interessierten in ihrer Nachbarschaft eine eigene Koop aufbauen können.

Most of our students have already graduated in January, but now you can admire their projects also on https://finale21.ch/ – and the website itself 🤩.

Our partners at the Berner Design Stiftung promote contemporary design from the Canton of Bern. Every year, they support designers from the canton of Bern working on specific projects and with personalised offers. You can find an overview of the funding possibilities at https://www.bernerdesignstiftung.ch/foerderung/. This year’s call for proposals ends on 10 August 2021.

Have you already taken a look at the Walk & Talk of the Finale 21 exhibition? Thomas Strässle takes you on a tour of the Division Design and Fine Arts diploma exhibition, with conversations with students, alumni, lecturers, and course directors. We only play a supporting role, but it’s still entertaining 😉: https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/aktuell/kulturelle-veranstaltungen/diplomveranstaltungen/gk-finale-21-21-06-28/





Der Höhepunkt des Studienjahres ist, wenn die Studierendenabschlussarbeiten im Fachbereich Gestaltung und Kunst gezeigt und verhandelt werden – coronabedingt mit eingeschränkten Besuchsmöglichkeiten.

Support the crowdfunding “Foodcoops für Alle!” of our lecturer turned student and hopefully soon again lecturer Florian Jakober (Afrika). In his master project, he develops a starter kit and a web platform so that all of you who are interested can build up your own co-op in your neighborhood. So if you are interested in this new sustainable approach to food distribution, feel invited to support it at https://wemakeit.com/projects/foodcoops-fuer-alle.





‼️First post of us since one year – must be something important‼️



The past months we focused on a self initiated project that doesnt exactly live on planet graphic design:



We are building up a network of foodcoops to empower people to take grocery shopping in their own hands.



In other words: Fuck you big supermarket chains, everybody now organises their own neighbourhood based food supply.



Why? Because in switzerland that’s more or less the only way to do so entirely sustaineable and still be able to pay for it.



(And it’s more fun than walk along supermarket shelves like a narcotised cow.)



Now we’re running a crowdfunding campaign for that and need your support: Please Donate!



Thanks 😘 Link in bio.

Our colleagues at the Institute of Design Research have recently completed an impressive project. Here is the Alain Findeli Online Library! “Alain Findeli is considered to be one of the leading design theorists of our time and the founder of design research in Francophone countries. His writings have been published in numerous books and journals, some of which are difficult to obtain. This gave rise to the idea of developing an online library in which Findeli's complete works would be made accessible to the public for the first time. The new online archive includes over 80 publications that Findeli published between 1986 and 2018.” Check it out at https://complete-works-alain-findeli.ch/.

We are delighted to see that our Almuna Lara Kothe will be giving a lecture together with HKB associate researcher Lucie Kolb at the Kunstuniversität Linz tomorrow. Lara already worked on the topic “Publizieren als Praxis” in her master thesis and is currently developing it into a PhD. If you would like to attend, register at viskom.info@ufg.at.





SCHNITTSTELLE x 55

Vortrag von Lara Kothe & Lucie Kolb

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8. Juni 2021, 18.00 Uhr

Zoom-Meeting-ID: 882 1527 4175

Passwortanfrage: viskom.info@ufg.at

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Kritisieren, Spekulieren, Intervenieren.

Publizieren als Praxis



In ihrem Vortrag sprechen Lara Kothe und Lucie Kolb über Publizieren und Design Research. Es geht um Sammlungen von Magazinen und überhaupt um das ganze Wissensuniversum des Sammeln und Verknüpfens von Undergroundpublikationen, Magazinen von KünstlerInnen, politischen Magazinen und postdigitalen Projekten.

www.wir-publizieren.ch

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome - Guest Lecture Festival will be back at 13:20 with the talk of Nina Jaun, fashion designer and founding member of the collective NCCFN (https://nccfn.group/) on https://hkb-bfh-ch.zoom.us/j/96692940423?pwd=Q2dYQXIvSVRBbmZIK2ZDRVBaSFgxQT09#success. En Guete!

Join us now for the Improvise, Adapt and Overcome - Guest Lecture Festival Talk by Holger Bramsiepe “Design, Future, Ethics”, starting at 11:00 on https://hkb-bfh-ch.zoom.us/j/96692940423?pwd=Q2dYQXIvSVRBbmZIK2ZDRVBaSFgxQT09.

Even the Hochparterre writes about it https://www.hochparterre.ch/nachrichten/design/blog/post/detail/improvise-adapt-overcome/1622794721/! Join Improvise, Adapt and Overcome - Guest Lecture Festival tomorrow.





Welche Aufgaben hat Design in Zeiten multipler Krisen? Studierende der Hochschule der Künste Bern suchen Antworten am Guest Lecture Festival.

This year’s New Experimental Research in Design conference (NERD) will kick off with “things are people too” by our student Adrian Demleitner. Tune in today at 17:00 at http://www.bird-international-research-in-design.org/nerd-conference-2021-1.





NERD Conference starts on Thursday:



This year, the New Experimental Research in Design conference (NERD) will be held online on three days in June (3rd, 10th and 17th ), in cooperation with the Center for Design Research at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg).



Presentations and discussions will be held in English, and participation is free of charge.



Join us no Zoom on the 3rd, 10th and 17th of June at 17:00 pm CEST



Zoom Link + Programme:

http://www.bird-international-research-in-design.org/



Information + Contact:

Dr. Tom Bieling (tom.bieling[at]haw-hamburg.de)



Read the full Designabilities article:

https://tinyurl.com/26abzz8j



Further Info:

www.designforschung.org

www.speclog.xyz



#NERD_for ALL

#NERD_for FREE

#NERD_for FUTURES



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The new Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB-Zeitung is out! The issue revolves around the so-called cultural and creative industries, what they encompass, how they differ, and how they can be better supported and promoted. It includes articles about and by our alumni and lecturers Julia Geiser, Stefan Miesch, and Marius Disler and was designed by our alumna Lara Kothe. Order it free of charge or read online at https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/aktuell/hkb-zeitung/.