Study Trips On the road between design industry and crafts

Ever since product design emerged as a discipline in the middle of the 19th century as a reaction to industrialization, there have been many different movements. Each of it has positioned itself between industry, arts and crafts. Since object design finds itself in the same field of conflict, we would like learn from different historical and contemporary positions.

Kopenhagen – 2026 (Zug/Flugzeug)

mit BIG Product Design, Muuto, PP Møbler, TAKT, Thomas Woltmann, Designmuseum Dänemark, DAC – Danish Architecture Center, Royal Danish Academy

Die Studienreise nach Kopenhagen untersuchte dänisches Design und Architektur im Spannungsfeld von Handwerk, Industrie, Nachhaltigkeit und Innovation. Die Studienreise bot Einblicke in Entwurfsprozesse, Materialstrategien und Produktionsweisen.

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London – 2025 (Zug)

mit Makers Cockpit, Alex Hammond, Nyanda Yekwai, Central Saint Martins, Blackhorse Lane Ateliers, Studio Jasper Morrison, Orto Print, Wallace Sewell, Design Museum London, Victoria & Albert Museum

 

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Netherlands - 2024 (train)

with RENS, Studio Remy, RAW COLOR, Marije Vogelzang, Blue City, Paul Ouwerker, Stéphanie Bächler & Nienke Hoogvliet

We travelled to four different cities in the Netherlands for a week with 20 object and textile design students. On the theme of Material & Colour, we visited a wide variety of studios in the fields of textile, object, food and ceramic design, but also in the fields of art and animation.
  

Switzerland - 2023 (train)

with Insitu, Planted, Kompotoi, FREITAG, EMPA, UMAMI, Mycrobez, Innorecycling, Remei, Museum of Communication - PLANETOPIA, Impact Hub - GOING CIRCULAR, Girsberger, Maurice Maggi

Our first study trip after the pandemic made us realise just how many creative, sustainable design concepts are being pursued in Switzerland. 
We spent a week behind the scenes at Swiss company shows, which could not have been more different: we saw everything from meat substitute products and giant washing machines for lorry sheets to cellars full of mushrooms and even an exhibition of already used materials.


Flanders: Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp – 2020 (Train)

with Cousy, KASK - Laure Van Brempt, Studio Esther Van Schuylenbergh, Onbetaalbaar, Design Museum Ghent, Rotor, Chevalier Masson, Julien Carretero, Horta Museum, objects. projects. by Cenk, Haptic House - WIESIWILL, Klaas Rommelaere, TEXTURE: Flax Museum, Deltracon, Libeco
Product Design studyweek in Brussels 2020
Product Design studyweek in Brussels 2020
Product Design studyweek in Brussels 2020
Product Design studyweek in Brussels 2020
Product Design studyweek in Brussels 2020
Product design study trip Berlin 2018
Product design study trip to Vienna 2017 – Visiting Wittmann Möbelwerkstätten, Etsdorf am Kamp
Product design study trip to Vienna 2017 – Visiting the state opera
Product design study trip to Copenhagen 2019 – visiting PP Møbler
Product design study trip to Copenhagen 2019 – visiting Fritz Hansen
Product design study trip to Copenhagen 2019 – visiting Snedker Studio
Product design study trip to London 2016 – visiting Wallace & Sewell
Product design study trip to London 2016 – visiting Wallace & Sewell
Product design study trip to London 2016 – last evening at Brick Lane
Product design study trip to Munich 2015 – visiting the porcelain manufacture Nymphenburg
Product design study trip to Munich 2015 – visiting Stefan Diez


Kopenhagen, From Danish Modern to Nordic Style – 2019 (Plane, Night Train)

with Nicolai de Gier, KADK, PP Møbler, Fritz Hansen, Danish Design Museum, Grundtvigs Kirke, SAS Hotel Room 606, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, KADK Nicolai de Gier, KADK CITA, A. Petersen Collection & Craft, Claus Mølgaard at kvadrat, Emdal Studio, Snedker Studio, Thomas Bentzen, Henrik Vibskov, Kastrup Søbad

Berlin, Werkbund – 2018 (Night Train)

with Tido von Oppeln, Board of Werkbund-Archiv, Werkbund-Archiv/Museum der Dinge, Hansaviertel, Alex Valder, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Bless Home, VELT, Clärchens Ballhaus, Galerie Johann König, Andreas Murkudis, Joa Herrenknecht, Komische Oper, Corbusierhaus, Gießmann Plissees, Hermann August Weizenegger, Claudia Skoda, Pentatonic

Wien, Vienna Workshop – 2017 (Night Train)

with Benedikt Steiner, Theatermuseum, MAK mit Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Staatsoper Kostümschneiderei, Breaded Escalope, EOOS, mischer'traxler, Wittmann Möbelwerkstätten, Otto Flemmich Seidenweberei, Frisch Färberei, Das Möbel

London, In the Footsteps of William Morris – 2016 (Plane)

with Barbara Etter, Victoria & Albert Museum with Jenny Lister, William Morris Gallery, Barbara Etter, Tomoko Azumi, William Morris Society Kelmscott House, Wallace & Sewell, Unto This Last, House of Hackney, Marsden Woo Gallery, Fashion & Textile Museum with Sarah Campbell, Camberwell College of Arts, St. Martin's, Gallery Fumi

München – 2015 (Bus)

Zeitraum, Rohi Stoffe, Classicon, Designaffairs, Porzellanmanufaktor Nymphenburg, Studio Nitzan Cohen, Adidas Herzogenaurach, Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg, BMW Interior Design, Stefan Diez Office

Norditalien – 2014 (Bus)

Alessi Museum, Ratti SpA, Mantero, Segno Italiano, TeamWork, Mattiazzi, Moroso, Garcia Cumuni, Foscarini

Benelux – 2013

   

Kopenhagen – 2012