Foundations and elective seminars in the summer term of 2026

Foundations of Artistic Design 2

The students will deepen the knowledge and skills gained during the 1. semester in the areas of drawing, sculpture and composing.
Along with practical exercises, students will realize a group project on the theme of "shelter". The course will be supplemented by field trip research and short lectures.

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Foundations of Artistic Design for Technical Education

Teaching the foundations of drawing and training perception are at the centre of this course. With practical exercises on "drawing and colour", the perception of space and body is sensitised and precise observation is trained.

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Bremerhaven!
EXCURSION

This excursion takes us to the exclave of the “Free Hanseatic City of Bremen,” founded in 1827. For a long time, Bremerhaven was Europe’s largest port of departure for emigrants heading to America, to the “New World.” Many people’s fates are intertwined with the city. Otherwise, it is known primarily for its port, which remains economically significant to this day.

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Manifesta 16 - More than a biennial!
EXCURSION

Excursion to the Ruhr region: 4–8 August 2026

In 2026, the Ruhr region will host Manifesta 16. From June to October, the biennial will take place in twelve vacant post-war churches spread across the host cities of Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Bochum.

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being so connected.02

The workshop begins with an introduction to the basic techniques and ways of working with clay, as well as to working in the pottery studio. Next, we will explore the specific properties of clay and fired ceramics. Through experimentation, we will discover processes and forms that go beyond conventional functional ceramics.

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Belichtet.Exposed.

“Belichtet. Exposed.” is a workshop on analog black-and-white photography. The focus is on shooting with an analog SLR camera, as well as the practical and chemical processes of negative development, image enlargement, and photograms in the darkroom.

“Photography is the shaping of light.” (László Moholy-Nagy)

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Bossen & Strikes. Stone

- Instruction in basic stone carving techniques
- Research on “stones,” their origins, their use in construction, and artistic stone carving
- Completion of a stone carving project on a specified theme

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Filmraum_C050_watching_kubrick

“My mind is going... I can feel it.”
(HAL 9000 during his disconnection, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968)

The lecture hall is turning into a movie theater again!
We will watch selected films by director Stanley Kubrick and explore his visual worlds and cinematic architecture. Special attention will be given to the evolution of Kubrick’s work.

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 Material confusions

Design processes typically begin with an idea or a task. Decisions about materials are then made. In this intensive course, we want to explore an approach that reverses this logic: the material comes first.

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Printshop: repeating patterns 2

This workshop introduces participants to the basics of manual printmaking techniques, including screen printing, etching, and linocut. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will be instructed in these techniques in the printmaking studio.

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Processing Pictures / Painting & AI

Image-generating AI is closer to painting than to photography—it is not a representation, but a pure construction.

How can we develop new forms of expression with the help of image-generating AI? Does it help us unleash our creativity, or does it limit us with generic anti-aesthetics?

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seedrawthink. akt.

Before we begin drawing from a live nude model, we study nude depictions by artists such as Da Vinci, Dürer, Seurat, Valadon, Giacometti, and others. At the same time, we explore the theories of proportion developed by the architects Vitruvius (“The Vitruvian Man”) and Le Corbusier (“The Modulor”).

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Take a Walk on the Wild Side

“The act of walking is to the urban system what the speech act is to language or to the statements uttered.” – Michel de Certeau (The Practice of Everyday Life)

We explore walking in architectural and urban spaces. How does walking structure orientation, perception, and social relationships—and thereby shape the way we use and experience spaces? 

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TypoBasics. Character & Cliché

The typographic term “cliché” derives from the French word “cliché” and refers to a reproduction of an original, serving as a general term for all types of printing plates. Colloquially, a cliché refers to an idea, saying, or stylistic device that was once innovative but now seems outdated. A cliché exists as something intellectually or linguistically formulaic.

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