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Hortopia II —Qualitäten des Träumens

Bild oben: Detail aus dem Oudolf Garten auf dem Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein, Jan Eckert, 2023 «Im Zentrum des Gartens stehen die unkontrollierten Kräfte..

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A man walks into a bar …

A man walks into a bar…Sounds like a joke, right?But this story is much more than a joke. So we’re sitting in a bar in..

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Blowing up the Alps

When María Gonzáles de Cossío first contacted me in August 2023, it was both a surprise and an honour to be invited to contribute a..

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Hortopia I

Titelbild: In Brunos Weinberg gibt es keine Mauern, sondern eine Koexistenz zwischen den Lebewesen, Wolxheim, Alsace, 2023, Jan Eckert Download an English version of this..

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Active Intuition

It’s been some time, since I last wrote on my blog and, mostly, this is due to my new job at the Swiss Centre for..

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Hortopia II —Qualitäten des Träumens

Bild oben: Detail aus dem Oudolf Garten auf dem Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein, Jan Eckert, 2023 «Im Zentrum des Gartens stehen die unkontrollierten Kräfte..
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A man walks into a bar …

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Blowing up the Alps

When María Gonzáles de Cossío first contacted me in August 2023, it was both a surprise and an honour to be invited to contribute a..
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Hortopia I

Titelbild: In Brunos Weinberg gibt es keine Mauern, sondern eine Koexistenz zwischen den Lebewesen, Wolxheim, Alsace, 2023, Jan Eckert Download an English version of this..
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Active Intuition

It’s been some time, since I last wrote on my blog and, mostly, this is due to my new job at the Swiss Centre for..
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Stewardship in Design

The title and content of our first academic paper published together with my Phd colleague Marco Mason was «From Social Relevances towards Design Isses» (Eckert,..
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Extending the New European Bauhaus by Reframing Education

In 2020, the European Commission announced the launch of a New European Bauhaus aiming at collaborations between the world of art and design and the..
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Challenges of Issue-based Education and Cross-Institutional Collaboration

Addressing real-world issues in research and education often extends into complex clusters of cross-institutional collaborations. Examples for such issues are the UN Sustainable Development Goals..
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Design at the Dawn of new Pedagogies

There is a lot being written and said about the transformative power of Design in the context of complex problem solving. Initiatives such as the..
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Humanising Education through Design

Shorter half-life of knowledge and skills urges today’s learners to give up linear learning paths and engage in non-linear lifelong learning. Even our recent shift..
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Design Education Talks

Thanks to Lefteris Emmanuel Heretakis for inviting me to join his initiative at the New Art School and be part of a series of podcasts..
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Why designers need to learn how to collaborate.

In a recent keynote at Valencia Design Education Forum IBM Design Director Karel Vredenburg pointed out the fact that many design graduates fall short when..
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Leading Digital Transformation and the Green Transition

Back in September 2020, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced her initiative to tackle the challenges of the «twin» digital..
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Moving the Conversation to the Schools

On October 7, Part II of a great series of panels on Design Education took place and it was my pleasure being part of it..
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Why Design Schools Should Take the Lead in Design Education

Thanks to our Editors Daniel Raposo, João Neves, José Silva, we published a book named «Perspective on Design». It is a volume that reports on..
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The Distance Learning Blueprint

On April 30th 2020, I was kindly invited by the the European League of Institutes of the Arts ELIA to be part of their series..
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Digital Quarantine – A Case Study

On May 14th and 15th 2020 the 7th edition of the EIMAD – Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design has been held online...
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Asynchronous teaching and learning

In my presentation at the ELIA webinar on April 30th, I was talking about our experiences made when switching to online learning and teaching. Ways..
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How CoViD-19 Accelerated Digital Transformation in Higher Education

Thanks to our Editors and organizers of EIMAD Daniel Raposo, João Neves, José Silva, Luísa Correia Castilho and Rui Dias, we just published another very..
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Re-imagining Higher Arts Education

As a response to the worldwide shift to online learning due to the CoViD crisis, the European League of Institutes of the Arts ELIA started..
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Distance Learning Blueprint

Due to the nationwide shutdown of schools and university campuses that was announced by our Federal Council on March 13th, all educational institutions had to..
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Bauhaus Manifesto

A couple of months ago, I wanted to discuss the original Bauhaus Manifesto with my students ad reached out to find an appropriate English version...
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Service Design Chapter Switzerland

on November 30th 2018 we proudly inaugurated the Swiss Chapter of Service Design Network at the Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst. Together with other..
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Why Design Schools should take the lead in Design Education – new book chapter coming soon!

Together with Daniel Raposo, João Neves, José Silva, we are publishing a book that will be available at Springer, soon. «Perspectives on Design» is a..
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