Ufaq Inaam
Design Histories Beyond Euro-America: Worlds, Canons, and Counter-Narratives This seminar rethinks design histories through the deliberate unlearning of Euro-American modernity as the default frame of reference.It interrogates how canonical historiographies have constructed 'design' as an industrial, Western project while marginalizing vernacular practices, craft epistemologies, regenerative systems, and alternative material cultures. The seminar also explores the historical boundaries of what counts… 2026W, Proseminar, 3.0 ECTS
Leah Armstrong
2027S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS
Alison Jane Clarke
2027S, Ringvorlesung mit Workshop, 1.5 ECTS
Heng Zhi
2027S, Ringvorlesung mit Workshop, 1.5 ECTS
Leah Armstrong
Critical Design- From Critique to Crisis? What does it mean to research, write and think critically about design? This course traces the emergence of design criticism as a way of seeing, reading, interpreting, interrogating design in the course of the twentieth century, until the present day. Focusing on critical design discourse and design itself as a form of critique, across… 2026W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS
Heng Zhi
Design After Modernism: From Radical to Shanzhai Die Designgeschichte seit der Nachkriegsmoderne ist geprägt von Wellen der Kommerzialisierung für den Massenmarkt sowie vom kritischen Engagement mit sozialen und politischen Fragestellungen. Gleichzeitig haben Designpraktiken außerhalb der westlichen Welt in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Diese Vorlesung führt zunächst in zentrale Epochen und Strömungen des Designs von den 1960er Jahren… 2026W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS
Heng Zhi
2027S, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS
Alison Jane Clarke
Critical approaches to design theory, history and material culture in accordance with the parameters of students' dissertation research. Critical approaches to research methodology. 2026W/2027S, Kolloquium, 4.0 ECTS
Leah Armstrong
Deep Fake: A design history Design has always been closely related to ideas of artifice. In moments of political discontent and transition, experiments with new materials allowed designers to reinvent their relationship with the present and propose radical new futures. Through fast fashion and copy-design culture, design became a global tool of intellectual property. In the midst of debates about… 2026W, Proseminar, 3.0 ECTS
Leah Armstrong
2027S, Proseminar, 3.0 ECTS