Play the System

Play the System
Information Close
Book
Search

/

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.

Press F to search

CRY-CLEANSE-CARE is a research-based project that explores the question of what rest and recuperation mean for marginalised people in a capitalist and patriarchal society. How can we show that rest is also an act of resistance? How do we create a decolonial, healing space?

As a group of three design students with post-migrant and decolonial perspectives, we explore the similarities and differences of our own experiences and work in an interdisciplinary way.

The appeal CRY-CLEANSE-CARE is the basis of our non-linear manifesto. We invite visitors to enter the land of vulnerability - woven into a tapestry. To heal - to be - to relax.

“Justice for lazy immigrants!” was a quote from ALOK (Alok Achkar Peres Petrillo) during their show in Hamburg in October 2022. ALOK is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and speaker whose work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.