{"id":88684,"date":"2019-07-14T22:27:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/?page_id=88684"},"modified":"2024-08-17T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T07:33:48","slug":"thematic-clusters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/application\/ma-integrated-design\/thematic-clusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Thematic Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KISD aims to overcome traditional design boundaries and combine different approaches, perspectives and practices, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in order to deal with problems and questions that cannot be solved within the boundaries of a single design area of expertise<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Design is an integral part of every facet of the material and virtual world. It is responsible for and operates through produc<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ts, environments,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> systems and services <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">within political, social, economical and cultural contexts. We see design not only as a way to interfere in and question these processes, but as the production, acquisition, communication and documentation of knowledge.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The M.A. program \u00bbIntegrated Design Research\u00ab welcomes applicants who want to examine how design can engage with questions of contemporary culture, politics, media, ecology and urbanity. A key component of the program is the development of a Final Thesis within the scope of one of the four thematic clusters listed below. Following your research interest, you will connect with different fields of expertise, broaden and deepen your competencies and focus your research.<\/p>\n<p>Explore your interests \u2013 Find your perspective \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/bewerbung\/ma-integrated-design-2\/application-process-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apply<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div id=\"subject\" class=\"accordion accordion--icon accordion--icon--left accordion--default\">\n    <div class=\"accordion__header\">\n        <a href=\"#subject\">\n\t\t\t<h3 >\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon accordion__icon\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\tMaterial Systems &amp; Lab Culture\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"accordion__content\">\n        <p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anthropogenic climate change mainly caused by industrialized nations and the exploitation of natural resources is having a detrimental effect on ecosystems worldwide. A demand for change with respect to regenerative materials and resources, their distribution, sustainable long-term thinking versus short-term gain and the shift away from a human-centered towards a diverse and inclusive perspective entails a critical reflection of the life-cycles of products, systems and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By working with organic and inorganic matter like fungi, bacteria, algae, organisms, particles and fibers, as well as digital technologies, actuators, sensors, motors, LEDs and code, on open platforms and in participatory processes, design can explore novel textiles, material behaviors, responsive structures, interactive objects and tangible networks. The goal is to activate systemic change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The range of possible perspectives encompasses:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">making and hacking products, systems and services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">generating open source platforms<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exploring participatory processes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">understanding material behavior and structures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">experimenting with analog and digital craft<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">investigating the relationship of code and material<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shifting perspectives \u2013 beyond human-centered design<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">re-contextualizing material properties<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">applying new materials and techniques<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">developing innovative fabrication processes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related Projects<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/theses\/plastic-stone-tiles-b-a-by-enis-akiev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plastic Stone Tiles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/haha-m-a-till-maria-juergens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">haha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/projects\/iot-at-the-zoo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IOT at the Zoo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/peel-b-a-lobke-beckfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PEEL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/projects\/designing-meaningful-textures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Designing Meaningful Textures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"subject\" class=\"accordion accordion--icon accordion--icon--left accordion--default\">\n    <div class=\"accordion__header\">\n        <a href=\"#subject\">\n\t\t\t<h3 >\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon accordion__icon\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\tSocial &amp; Public Innovation\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"accordion__content\">\n        <p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the public and social sector, the pressure to innovate is constantly rising. New technologies will fundamentally change traditional working techniques. The expectations and quantitative demands on social and public services will increase while public resources and funds might decrease. In addition, changing expectations of young people about their future work and workplaces result in a high transformation pressure on public and social services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the thematic cluster \u00bbSocial &amp; Public Innovation\u00ab, we will analyze the role of design within these processes and deal with the question of how frameworks and parameters for continuous innovation and transformation can be arranged, co-created and established through the discipline of design. In close cooperation with other scholarly fields, for example the social sciences, information science, media studies, or ethics, we will experiment with and lay out drafts and resolutions on the following issues: co-creating and contributing to technology-driven transformation, developing future-oriented patterns of active participation and testing and modeling of new work cultures and working techniques through design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The range of possible perspectives encompasses:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the exploration and projection of the effects of \u00bbservice 4.0\u00ab on social and public services and their users or customers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reflections on ethical principles in the design and configuration of transformation processes, including the interaction with vulnerable users<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the element of participation in digital and artificial worlds (distributed co-creation)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the analysis and investigation of cultural dimensions in the design process<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the experimental fields of social and public artefacts as well as the exploration of future living environments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related Projects<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/projects\/lets-play\/\">Let&#8217;s Play<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/projects\/lucitopia-rural-design-challenge\/\">Lucitopia Rural Design Challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/termine\/what-about-us-europe\/\">Eurofabrique \/ What about us, Europe?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/adapting-to-high-job-demands-in-the-public-sector-why-fire-departments-must-build-an-adaptable-workforce-m-a-by-cora-glaeser\/\">Fire Departments \u2013 Adaptable Workforce<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"subject\" class=\"accordion accordion--icon accordion--icon--left accordion--default\">\n    <div class=\"accordion__header\">\n        <a href=\"#subject\">\n\t\t\t<h3 >\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon accordion__icon\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\tUrban Intensities &amp; Resources\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"accordion__content\">\n        <p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cities increasingly agglomerate power, capital and knowledge, while a growing movement of people, data, goods and finance emanates from them. In view of these developments, many cities can no longer meet the challenges of supply, social inclusion, economic integration and infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, bodies, things, environments and technology are rapidly becoming more closely interrelated. These entanglements offer new potentials \u2013 cultural, social, economic, ecological \u2013 for alternative urban futures. The main focus of the thematic cluster \u00bbUrban Intensities &amp; Resources\u00ab is to explore these new possibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By means of spatial and urban analysis, development concepts, design scenarios, speculative interventions and experimental prototypes, we are looking for answers to how we want to live in the future and how urban spaces, infrastructures and institutions could be designed. Can the city be understood as a physical and virtual resource accessible for all citizens? How do people negotiate relationships with their urban environment? What are the complex and heterogeneous reference systems for their activities? Which social, political and technological developments and consequences arise from the compression and acceleration of urban space-time structures? And how can design take part in these developments?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>NEW:<\/strong><\/span> As part <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the thematic cluster \u00bbUrban Intensities &amp; Resources\u00ab<\/span>, there is the unique opportunity to select the interdepartmental concentration <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bb<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/projects\/spatial-strategies\/\">Spatial Strategies<\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab<\/span> in which design and architecture students work together on projects and seminars.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The range of possible perspectives encompasses:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">individual spatial perceptions and collective imaginations of the urban sphere<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">data-driven modes of interaction with urban environments as well as new interfaces between bodies, things and spaces<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">structures of exclusion and disciplining and their overcoming<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alternate political spaces and ways to participate in urban life and society<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">digital technologies for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">citizens<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> participating in designing urban structures and\u00a0 process<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">es<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new forms and technologies of mobility<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">urban practices of sharing and sustainable consumption<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social utopias for living and working in the post-fossil city<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">potentials and \u00bbreal experiments\u00ab of informal urban production<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/research\/research-center-real-time-city\/\">Real-Time City Research Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/projects\/the-invisible-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Invisible City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/projects\/open-universities-stadt-der-partizipativen-visionen\/\">Open Universities \u2013 City of Participative Visions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/projects\/beyond-the-senses-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond the Senses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/projects\/arrival-city-designing-the-urban-commons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arrival City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/theses\/making-home-zuhause-in-der-fremde-gestalten-m-a-simon-meienberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/epidemic-geographies-from-infographics-to-cartography-b-a-finn-steffens\/\">Epidemic Geographies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/theses\/city-on-demand-wie-on-demand-dienstleister-den-urbanen-raum-veraendern\/\">City On Demand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/projects\/sensemaking-abandonment\/\">Sensemaking Abandonment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/scalar-crevices-reorientation-at-the-planetary-scale-b-a-by-tonda-budszus\/\">Scalar Crevices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/moments-in-space-a-retrospective-exploration-of-post-traumatic-spaces-in-places-of-conflict-m-a-sally-loutfy\/\">Moments in Space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/projects\/th-koeln-supports-kisd-project-refarm-the-city-with-transfer-fund\/\">Refarm the City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/bachelor-thesis-de-construct-war-yvonne-lober\/\">De\/Construct War<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"subject\" class=\"accordion accordion--icon accordion--icon--left accordion--default\">\n    <div class=\"accordion__header\">\n        <a href=\"#subject\">\n\t\t\t<h3 >\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon accordion__icon\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\tVisual Cultures &amp; Politics\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"accordion__content\">\n        <p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contemporary everyday and media cultures relate to practices of rendering visible on the one hand and perception of visualizations on the other in a culturally distinctive way. Images and imaging techniques significantly determine processes of identity, recognition and transformation within a society. Media production and visual rhetorics preform economic, political and social discourses; they evoke moods, opinions and even world views. Visuals usually occur in combination with auditory, verbal, or tactile phenomena, which allows them to unfold in a multiplicity of ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As digitization and mediatization progressively permeate every facet of everyday life, the critical reflection of design, use and impact of images and hybrid media is becoming increasingly important. What can be negotiated through, communicated with and influenced by visual design? What are the opportunities and limits of visual argumentation and how can visual processes draw attention to specific concerns? These and other questions will be examined through tangible-practical and reflexive design processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The range of possible perspectives encompasses:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forms of communication in economic and political advertising<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">processing, materialization and representation of data in information design and data journalism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communication, collaboration and participation in digital communities and social media<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">techniques and types of branding and identity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">informal and formal designs, which determine community, cooperation and coexistence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deconstruction and transformation of visual mythologies, narratives, memes and topoi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social, political and cultural ramifications of<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">digitization and algorithmization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new forms of cultural and aesthetic articulation in the post-digital age<\/span><\/li>\n<li>design as fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related Projects<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/theses\/objekt-performanz-b-a-katharina-stahlhofen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Object; Performance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/projects\/the-hacking-orchestra-the-unexplored-pitch-in-the-misapplication-of-ordinary-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hacking Orchestra<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/projects\/countdown-to-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Countdown to the Future<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/news\/screen-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screen Spaces<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/theses\/algorithmic-turn-invisible-images-of-algorithmic-surveillance-b-a-by-sten-ruedrich\/\">Algorithmic Turn<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/theses\/machine-parenting-m-a-ziad-bou-assi\/\">Machine Parenting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The MA\u00a0 \u00bbIntegrated Design Research\u00ab offers the opportunity to make transnational learning experiences and engage in transcultural research with regard to the thesis topic. We are currently running <a href=\"https:\/\/kisd.de\/bewerbung\/ma-integrated-design-2\/international-opportunities-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Double Degree programs<\/a> with Tongji D&amp;I in Shanghai\/China and Chiba University in Chiba\/Japan; a third program with NTUST in Taipei\/Taiwan is being set up and will complement the two programs in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISD aims to overcome traditional design boundaries and combine different approaches, perspectives and practices, in order to deal with problems and questions that cannot be\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88680,"parent":88221,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"level-3.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373265],"class_list":["post-88684","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma-integrated-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88684"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101397,"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88684\/revisions\/101397"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}