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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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p235 Mindfulness and Time Perception

For her project, Linda Wolthaus chose the 1960s as her starting point, a time of cultural and political upheaval marked by optimism and the desire for a better future. More than 50 years later, we find ourselves in this “future,” but many of the challenges of that time still exist, and new problems have arisen. The project, therefore addresses the question of whether and how living in the here and now and future-oriented thinking can be reconciled, focusing on six different approaches—psychological, neuroscientific, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. A virtual space represents the different perspectives through symbolic objects, and clicking on the objects opens the corresponding text. The website is not intended to be a pure platform for knowledge transfer, but rather to encourage reflection on mindfulness and the individual perception of time, and to encourage a more conscious way of life.