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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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p216 KiSS. Kinetics in Sound and Space

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KiSS. Kinetics in Sound & Space refers to the colloquium founded in 2019 as a joint initiative of the partner universities HfMT Hamburg and HAW Hamburg. In this broadly conceived publication, the authors approach the subject matter from a variety of perspectives in the spirit of transdisciplinarity, with artistic and scientific disciplines engaging in a critical dialogue with one another. The exploration of the dynamics of spatial sound and sonic spaces also influenced the design of the publication: Claudia, Leonie, and Liad—master’s students in Communication Design—responded with a concept that is both restrained and subtly virtuosic. Edited by Thomas Görne, Georg Hajdu, Benjamin Helmer, and Jacob Richter, with contributions by Alessandro Anatrini, Greg Beller, Kristin Kuldkepp, Jacob Richter, Elise Schobeß, Stefan Troschka, Thomas Görne, Gerriet K. Sharma, and Georg Hajdu. 