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is a platform for parametric design in graphic design. It documents the work of students and teachers at the Department of Design at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), who are investigating the significance of the system as a conceptual model and design method under the title “Parametric Design in Graphic Design.”

Design is less about intuitive, even ingenious “strokes of genius” and more about a holistic and rule-based (systemic and systematic) process of gaining knowledge and shaping form. It is becoming increasingly important to be able to design dynamic systems that both guide and inspire the design process.

Parametric design refers to this design in and of systems—with rules, their modes of operation, and systematic manipulability. The research project, led by Prof. Heike Grebin, is an integral part of teaching and aims to raise awareness of design as a performative process.

Play the System brings together selected study projects in which the system plays an important role as a design method – whether analog or digital. The works are created in a fruitful symbiosis of theory, design, and technology. Socially relevant issues and positions from philosophy, art, and avant-garde design from around 1900 to the present day are repeatedly discussed.

Play the System is an invitation to become aware of the systemic competence of graphic design and to gain the maturity to use the tools of digital design critically.

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p123 Designer as Product

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Designer as product. Self-experiment and investigation using ‘Dailies/Everydays’, a self-optimization method in the social media environment.

This bachelor's project is about a self-experiment and investigation of the methodology of ‘Dailies’, a popular method of self-optimization on social media. In the process of the study, this method was carried out and documented over a period of 30 days. 'Dailies’ is about designing and publishing creative work on a daily basis. Nowadays, this publication mainly takes place on social networks, which is probably the easiest, but also the most effective way to be seen in today's system. The aim was to compare the method of 'Dailies’ and the concept of self-optimization and put it into a political context.