Jahresausstellung

Jahresausstellung From July 15 to 16, 2023, the exhibition “Precious Particle” took place for the annual exhibition. It showed the results of the works created during the semester and gave the public an insight into various creative processes. The annual exhibition made it possible to see and touch the works, read accompanying texts and understand …

Particle foaming for real

Particle foaming for real The molded parts for the Floppy, POLLA and Varii projects were foamed at Kurtz Ersa in Kreuzwertheim (Bavaria) using Wave Foamer. The other projects LAR, minus20 and PackVac, on the other hand, were produced at the Fraunhofer ICT in Pfinztal near Karlsruhe. For both partners, using the mold materials plaster, ABS, …

Tooling

Tooling Before the students could travel to Kurtz Ersa and Fraunhofer ICT to foam the designs on the industrial machines, they had to produce functional molds. In addition to building the molds in the university workshops, design aspects of mold construction, pressure and heat resistance, demolding, dimensions and material thicknesses of the component or material …

Talk: Stephan Schenk from Stapelstein

Talk: Stephan Schenk from Stapelstein As part of our semester project “Precious Particle”, Stephan Schenk introduced us to his idea of stacking stones and his resulting company.Stapelsteine are semicircular “stones” made of EPP (expanded polypropylene) that are about 30 cm tall and can be stacked as high as you like. He explained the individual steps …

Interim Presentation

Interim Presentation In the interim presentation, the students briefly and informatively presented their sprint project designs to each other. Among the guests at the presentation was Stephan Schenk, who gave the students feedback on their designs the following day as a guest critic. The exhibition of the 22 projects gave everyone a good overview of …

Sprint 4: Close the circle!

Sprint 4: Close the circle! “Empower a specific target group to actively recycle through your designs. Design an object and its cycle. Design a recycling situation that is low-threshold and requires no political effort.”Sprint four of the methodical design exercise “precious particle” continued with this task. The students, each in teams of two, developed ideas …

Sprint 3: Add on! Lift up!

Sprint 3: Add on! Lift up! After completing the previous two sprints, new sprint topics were worked on in various group constellations within two weeks. One of these sprints, entitled “ADD ON! LIFT UP!” included the task of using particle foam to improve a given situation. As in the previous sprints, we were asked to …

Sprint 1: Take me along!

Sprint 1: Take me along! “Design an object for transportation: a bicycle box, a backpack, a handbag, a travel case, a lifebuoy… Explore the heat-insulating, lightweight, shock-absorbing and aesthetic properties as well as the possibilities of integrating functions and components.”Sprint 1 was about quickly developing ideas in teams of two and recording them in sketches. …