What responsibility do we have as designers when choosing our materials? What stories do their production methods tell us and what can we learn from local manufacturers and regional 'tactic knowledge'? The Living Library (LL) project deals with these questions. In a one-year teaching program (10/2024 – 10/2025) we will explore the immediate region in a radical deep dive (50km radius around the HfG), get to know the network around local materials, manufacturers and production methods and present our results continuously hybrid in the analog LL display at the HfG and on the LL/BDL website. A documentary open- access publication will then be published at the end of the project (03/2026). In addition to a general overview of material design, speculative mapping and bioregional practices, you will get to know various concrete material narratives theoretically and practically. Together with international guests from art, design and sciences, we will explore the surrounding area in compact activation units with local day excursions, deepen the respective focal points in public lectures/panels and apply the knowledge gained in practice in subsequent day workshops.
The second module in the summer semester 2025 “GROWING AND HARVESTING” comprises a general introduction and three activation units/topic blocks:
0) General introduction (28.04., 13:00 - 15:00) with LL team Julia Ihls, Jaap Knevel, Pleun van Dijk & Fara Peluso
1) Wood (05. - 06.05., all day) with Simon Gehring & Stefan Kuderman/Zentrum Holzbau
2) Invasive Plants (02. - 03.06., all day) with Filipa Cesar & Erik van Schaften
3) Hemp (30.06. - 01.07., all day) with Freia Achenbach & tba
The “GROWING AND HARVESTING” program with its 3 units is a mandatory part of the seminar “THE NEST”.
The workshops can also be attended individually if required. In this case, one Workshop-Schein will be credited.
The second module in the summer semester 2025 “GROWING AND HARVESTING” comprises a general introduction and three activation units/topic blocks:
0) General introduction (28.04., 13:00 - 15:00) with LL team Julia Ihls, Jaap Knevel, Pleun van Dijk & Fara Peluso
1) Wood (05. - 06.05., all day) with Simon Gehring & Stefan Kuderman/Zentrum Holzbau
2) Invasive Plants (02. - 03.06., all day) with Filipa Cesar & Erik van Schaften
3) Hemp (30.06. - 01.07., all day) with Freia Achenbach & tba
The “GROWING AND HARVESTING” program with its 3 units is a mandatory part of the seminar “THE NEST”.
The workshops can also be attended individually if required. In this case, one Workshop-Schein will be credited.
- Dozent/in: Julia Ihls