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/.

Under #ParliamentOfQuestions, our students in Matylda Krzykowski’s workshop “Show Your Work (Online)” have produced videos on the issues they are grappling with within their projects. You can find them on https://www.instagram.com/p/CPdWw-jhZRJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link and https://vimeo.com/556594402. Enjoy!





Online since 29 May 2021 Welcome to The Parliament of Questions — seven MA Design students are forming the body of this government. Here Design is negotiable,…

Our dear lecturer Matylda Krzykowski co-curated and co-scenographed the exhibition “Total Space” at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich – and how! Check it out before it’s too late (–20.6.). Still not convinced? Then please have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te_erQ8O0Z0 and get out the schnapps 🍹!





Aus der Ausstellung "Total Space", 2020, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

Our fellow students from the Master Multimedia Communication & Publishing have founded a magazine. Libertin (https://libertin-libertin.ch) deals with urbanity and all its facets. In their new podcast flusstalk (https://open.spotify.com/show/7pQl8UiMtS7ys8bazBRbHM?si=ftsaURMeTLS1kacdgSCFoA), the four hosts pass the mic to each other to meet exciting people with a connection to Bern. We follow with excitement!

This year’s Guest Lecture Festival, titled IMPROVISE, ADAPT & OVERCOME, organized by our students, is on Instagram! Reserve the 5th of June 2021 and to stay tuned, follow https://www.instagram.com/guest_lecture_festival/. #guestlecturefestival #improviseadaptovercome

Tonight, Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB Forschungsmittwoch by TwoPoints.Net. Join us online from 17:30 CEST at https://zoom.us/j/91843759779?pwd=TjJNckdGaFhjMjJOeElsaDNVVVM1Zz09#success.

LAST CALL of the “Creative Business Coaching” funding program. For the last time, our partners Creative Hub are looking for promising start-ups from all areas of the creative industries. The call is open until Friday, April 30 (midnight). All further information and the application form can be found at www.creativehub.ch.

Have you only recently come across the Master Design? Didn’t you have enough time to apply? Do you need a little more time to think about your future plans?



We are pleased to offer a few more places for aptitude interviews. Apply now and send us your portfolio until April 15, 2021, at https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/en/studies/master/design/.

Have you only recently come across the Master Design? Didn’t you have enough time to apply? Do you need a little more time to think about your future plans?



We are pleased to offer a few more places for aptitude interviews. Apply now and send us your portfolio until April 15, 2021, at https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/en/studies/master/design/.

In the latest issue of the Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB Zeitung you can find a portrait of Isamal Zorilla, who is studying Design Research in her third semester with us. In her project, she researches how design can reduce stress factors for mentally ill people. Read the whole article at https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/aktuell/hkb-zeitung/.

Dear prospective students, please keep in mind that the registration deadline is approaching. If you want to study with us, apply online and submit your portfolios by 15 March. For more information on requirements, admission and the link to the registration form, visit https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/en/studies/master/design/.





The Master in Design is an individualised, project-based programme. As a full- or part-time student, you will choose between specialisations in Entrepreneurship or Research.

Our alumna Julia Mia Stirnemann has launched a new version of her Worldmapgenerator. Congratulations, Julia! Now you can export your world map as vector data (svg), with all geo layers, and edit it further. Give it a try and support the project at https://www.worldmapgenerator.com/.

It was always clear to us that the flagship project “Dolography” of our alumna Sabine Affolter has a high impact. Now the effectiveness of the visual pain assessment tool has also been scientifically confirmed. Accordingly, it “helps to obtain clinically relevant information not previously expressed by the patient.” Read more at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00482-021-00532-x. #designresearch





Background Since 2017, the diagnosis of patients with orofacial pain at the University Center for Dental Medicine Basel has been supplemented by using standardized image graphics (Dolografie® [Affolter/Rüfenacht, Bern, Switzerland]). For this purpose, patients select from a set of 34 cards those t...

🎆 Big congratulations to our Masters 2021 🎆

Hanna Buker

Kristina Chobanova

Durre Shehwar Ali

Karla Gutierrez Arauz

Stefan Miesch

Maya Ober

Naho Okamoto

Pauline Piguet

Marc-Olivier Schatz

It was impressive how you managed to push your projects forward and bring them to a good end despite the uncertain circumstances caused by 🦠. We hope you will keep your studies in good memory. We will miss you and hope that we will soon be able to 🥂 with you in real life – although the virtual apéro 🎤 was quite something, too!

Ulrike Felsing and Max Frischknecht, lecturer and alumni of the HKB MA Design, contributed to the symposium “Shifts in Mapping” organized by the Masterstudio Design and the HeK - Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel. The symposium discussed current positions, projects, concepts and methods in mapping and put them in a larger context. Find more information at https://shiftsinmapping.ch (web design by Début Début).