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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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p203 I Say, Klaus ...

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... we should have asked Grandma more questions! To record the memories of her extended family, Eva Mitschke interviewed her grandmother and great-uncle and translated their oral eyewitness accounts into a typographically modeled narrative stream, which is characterized by gaps in memory, leaps of thought, contradictions, and digressions. The narratives of the two main protagonists are interrupted by questions and comments from the author and supplemented by subsequently added information and references to related images and text passages. Places and terms that are important to the family are emphasized, and gaps in memory and leaps of thought are marked. Connections that were torn apart in the narrative are reconnected by curved lines.