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.
Hafen City University Hamburg´s Gesa Ziemer is Vice President Research at HCU and heading the MIT CityScience Lab in Hamburg.The two-day summit „cities without…“ was a very good opportunity to get to know the work of the Hamburg lab, but the other labs as well. The remarkable program offered a lot of opportunities to rethink the impact design and designers can have on cities.
One thing became obvious in the very first moments: city research is a driving force and brings together various disciplines. It is the perfect context for interdisciplinary work. It is supported by a variety of communal, federal and global organizations. It is highly relevant as more than 50% of the population living in cities. And it is for sure a topic to be adressed by design, a topic where design can contribute to interdisciplinary processes and unfold new potentials.
The keynote speech of Lord Norman Foster presents his approach from lightweight and circular economy based architecture – both in his studio but also with his foundation. The foundation works with communities in India and South America to design very specific ways of less formal, in heterogenous practices of informality, settlements with various notions of autonomy (in terms of infrastructure, energy but also political and economical). In his experience the co-creation of the settlements and buildings could build on a high level of visual literacy.
Gesa Ziemer and Kent Larson agreed that the real change will take place where local communities act. The exchange of those practices, their discussion and reflection can then unfold potentials in other communities and potentially a global level.
The following 4mins lightning talks gave insights into (mostly) research practice in different cities of the world and went up to the systems level when for example Joelle Pianzola shared her work about algorithms matching refugees with the cities where the best matching for employment (immigration policy lab Stanford / Zürich).
Kent Larson
Joelle Pianzola
Maja Göppel
All in all it was a very good start to open personal dialogues and prepare for the workshop sessions on the second day.
The second day was designed as a workshop day, with 3 sessions (challenges) in 9 different spaces, and additional spaces or tours outside the building.
At the end of the day, each workshop presented the outcome in a joint session with 4 slides in 2 minutes followed by a closing discussion. All charts were compiled in a publication available – just at the end of the day.
