Going Global is an overview and collection of Philipp Heidkamp´s activities in the process of design and design education as a global topic – at KISD, for KISD and with the Cumulus Association
Read more Read lessI am frequently running workshops abroad in the field of Interface / Interaction Design, Human Environment Interaction, City as Interface as well as Culture of Digitalization
In those domains my focus is on cities, citizen, communities, mobility and food.
Cumulus is the only global association to serve art and design education and research. It is a forum for partnership and transfer of knowledge and best practices. KISD joins Cumulus since 2002, Ans since some years we engage in the work of Cumulus in working groups, through our track „Emerging Formats“ at the 2019 Rovaniemi conference and since then with my Work as Executive Board Member of the 7th Board (2019-2022) and my role as Vice President of the global network. This challenge will give a lot of new opportunities that will be shared here as well.
Global Design Initiative (see also the website under construction).
The Global Design Initiative is founded by the Global Design Faculty driven by five international, globally oriented art and design institutions based in London, Cologne, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo. It brings together like-minded people, mainly global design education leaders who believe in new approaches in dialogue and exchange.
Medellin was the place for the first meeting of the new Cumulus board (CEB60).
Being at Medellin, we had the opportunity to emerge in local communities and activities and met people from ruta n, a local hub for supporting transformation processes mostly based on digital technologies. Ruta n fosters innovation ecosystems making an important contribution to the orange economy in Latam.
We also visited Moravia, an area with an outstanding community center and had the opportunity to talk to Cecilia, one of the community leaders not only sharing the story of how the building that was built by Rogelio Salmona in close collaboration with the local community.
We had the chance to meet a lot of people in the barrio and at the Foundation/Food Bank F. Saciar (tropical kitchen) where Cecilia gave an overview of entrepreneurship initiatives of the Foundation and during lunch with community, she introduced the Moravia manifesto to us, a result of the Urban Lab Medellin Berlin.
In afternoon we had a walk through Comuna 13, led by Fredie, a young anthropologist that is deeply connected to this area.
On the second day, we had the opportunity to meet one of the more than 400.000 coffee farmers (organized in 211 cooperatives) and understood the production and distribution processes. I had to think of Dave Eggers book „Monk of Mokkha“ looking for ways to connect to support farmers really focusing on the (organic) quality of their products and connecting them to the customers – a topic we might address in the near future.
This was a wonderful immersion for the new board to start their ambitious work.
After a productive board meeting we had a strategy workshop the whole Monday focusing on the needs we see to proceed the work for Cumulus in addressing future needs and opportunities. We were able to leave Medellin with a sense of shared understanding and were excited to travel to Medellin for the Cumulus Conference The Design After of Universidad de Los Andes, convened by Faculdad de Arquitectura y Disegno.
Being there, we had a pre—conference workshop led by Alok Nandi, President of ixDa about future collaborations between our associations, especially looking at the emerging DERdays (Design Education Research Days) with a conference to come in Beirut in the beginning of 2020.
We had the chance to take the first official picture of the new CEB7 at the terrace of @ArqDisUA @Uniandes #cumulusBogota2019 #thedesignafter
During the conferences we had the opportunity to also work on our relations with the DESIS Labs and sorted out new opportunities – amongst many other conversations we had with colleagues and friends from all over the world.
We left Bogota with a clear roadmap to be prepared for the work until our next board meeting February in New York.
