Topic:

Design Thinking / Serendipity

Brief description:

The developed workshops open up the possibility of visually realizing projects without a concrete task. The students independently develop topics that emerge playfully during the first working week. Due to the fact that the process of thinking when designing cannot function linearly from task to solution, it is precisely the mistakes and dead ends along the way that are an essential motor for ideas. The second week would be used for a more focused task to migrate the first results in a complex world of a new corporate identity. Creativity and ideas are the currency for designers. Visual Communication with the Methods of the Space for Visual Research has been pursuing the goal of training individual and later successful designers with these methods for years.

Biography:

Prof. Markus Weisbeck

Markus Weisbeck is a designer and professor of graphic design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and since 2017 at the Paju Typography Institute in Korea. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale since 2011. Weisbeck’s artistic works are represented by Kai Middendorff Galerie, Frankfurt. In 2013 he founded the “Space for Visual Research” at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as a workshop and laboratory for experimental research on new graphic and abstract visual worlds with workshops in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Bolivia, Ecuador and Iran. As a method for experimental image making, the “Space” encourages research into abstract visual worlds.

Combining the investigative approach of a think tank with hands-on creative production, it empowers students to feel free to be innovative & creative. Studio Markus Weisbeck’s projects include work for Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; LUMA Arles; The Forsythe Company; Zumtobel; Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt am Main; Fogo Island Arts; German Federal Ministry of Finance; Arte; Deutsche Bank; documenta 12; La Biennale di Venezia (German, Canadian and Armenian Pavilions), Manifesta 7; German Design Council; Sternberg Press; and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.

Vera Kunz

Vera Kunz is an artist and designer. She studied Art History at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Visual Communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung HfG Offenbach (Diploma in Design).

As founder of the design studio Little Spin, Vera specialises in creative coding, contemporary digital culture, UI design, design thinking and art direction.

She is a team member of SfVR - Space for Visual Research. SfVR is a workshop and laboratory for experimental research into new graphic and abstract, explorative visual worlds in the context of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2013. Since 2017, Vera Kunz has been developing educational formats such as university courses and workshops together with Markus Weisbeck, which she teaches worldwide. Her current focus is on conceptual design and experimental research. Since 2024 councillor for LGBT*IQ for German Design Day and member of the German Design Club.