Philipp Heidkamp March 6, 2020 7:01 pm *

Cumulus Board Meeting at Parsons / New York City

Once again, this board meeting in mid-February 2020 was absolutely well organized, an efficient use of time and resources and a lot of opportunities to encounter the local scenes and communities. We kicked-off our 3 days together with a morning visit to the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Kim Robledo-Diga, Deputy Director of Education Cynthia Smith, Curator […]

Cumulus 4 board 2 Cooper-Hewitt 1 Countryside 1 Guggenheim 1 New York 1 Smithsonian 1 USA 1

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Philipp Heidkamp February 6, 2020 6:53 pm *

Winter School 2020 at the GSA Forres Campus in the Scottish Highlands

Once again, in its fifth year, the Winter School was growing and a bid success, if not the best up to now. We proceeded with our approach of de-centering the human in design and looking for non-human (centered) approaches. With more than 160 students from GSA, but also from Audencia in France, KISD in Germany, […]

Workshops 3 climate crisis 1 dystopia 1 GSA 1 Konstfack 1 non-human centered design 1 utopia 1 winter school 1

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Philipp Heidkamp December 9, 2019 10:57 am

Shared Campus Inaugural Conference and Launch

The Shared Campus Inaugural Conference and Launch at ZHdK was a good opportunity to share insights and experiences from the transcultural collaboration program that ZHdK is running for some years that now led to the “Shared Campus” platform. As they were announcing, it should be established as a new collaboration platform for international education formats, […]

Conferences 5 CSM 2 GDI 1 lasalle 1 non-human 1 shared campus 1 transcultural 1 zurich 1

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Philipp Heidkamp November 23, 2019 8:29 am

Workshop at SCID with the KISD project Future Cities: Food

Running a full-semester project in winter term 2019 with 13 experienced and passionate students from 8 nations. The project aims at investigating the question how cities (and their dwellers) can be connected to both food and agriculture / farmers using data and information technology. In preparing the workshop, I was really surprised how much technology […]

Workshops 3 agriculture 1 blockchain 1 Cities 2 farm 1 food 1 future 1 SCID 1 taipei 1

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Philipp Heidkamp November 20, 2019 4:20 pm

Integrated Design for Future Environments: Visiting Tainan / Taiwan

In Tainan, I had the chance to meet three colleagues of NCKU being not yet a partner school from KISD, but brings in a very promising thematic aspect of urban sensing / environmental research). I knew Prof. Tzu-Ping Lin, heading the BClab before, as we are working together on an Erasmus+ bid. With a quite […]

Visits 3 city 2 Erasmus 1 Joint Master 1 Pilsen 1 Taiwan 1 Transdiciplinary 1

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Philipp Heidkamp November 3, 2019 4:02 pm *

Conference The Design After Bogota October 2019

Conference opening by Cumulus President Mariana Amatullo. The three days of thee Cumulus Conference The Design After of Universidad de Los Andes, convened by Faculdad de Arquitectura y Disegno (get the proceedings here) were a great opportunity to engage with many different perspectives from Latin America along the key questions raised by the conference: SENSING […]

Conferences 5 Cumulus 4 biodesign 1 city 2 counterculture 1 fiction 1 latam 2 sensing 1

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Philipp Heidkamp October 28, 2019 3:28 pm *

Cumulus Board Meeting Medellin / October 2019

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 […]

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Philipp Heidkamp October 1, 2019 10:09 am *

City Science Summit in Hamburg

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 […]

Conferences 5 Cities 2 CityScience Lab 2 HCU 1 MIT 1 Summit 1 Tongji 2

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Philipp Heidkamp September 3, 2019 9:25 am *

Attending Tongji University D&I

6 years after setting up the double degree program between our two Master programs focusing on „Designing Urban Transformations“ it was good to visit Tongji again and to talk to Yonqui LOU as well as some of his colleagues, especially Xiaocun ZHU and of course Kelly making everything happen. Concerning D&I, I was also particularly […]

Visits 3 CityScience Lab 2 DESIS 1 Double degree 1 Tongji 2

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Philipp Heidkamp September 2, 2019 10:07 am *

Proceeding partnership with CAA Hangzhou

After years of collaboration of CDK (Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie) at China Academy of Art (CAA) with UdK Berlin CAA was interested to establish collaborations with KISD . In 2016, we designed a 6-week certificate Programme on Integrated Design, where I was teaching together with Wolfgang Laubersheimer and Jenz Großhans from KISD. Now I had the chance […]

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I 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.

Philipp Heidkamp November 23, 2019 8:29 am

Workshop at SCID with the KISD project Future Cities: Food

Workshops 3 agriculture 1 blockchain 1 Cities 2 farm 1 food 1 future 1 SCID 1 taipei 1

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