German version available A conversation about current challenges and opportunities for the discipline of design and how Prof. Annette Diefenthaler addresses them at the TU Munich with her work in “Design and Transdisciplinarity”. „CHANGING PERSPECTIVES“ As part of a panel discussion organized by BWM Group Design and Die Neue Sammlung, #SDNue spoke…

German version available “Social Design deals with socially relevant topics and designs them in a participatory way, i.e. integrates people from society into the design process,” explains Carolin Schreiber, Professor of Social Design, in the video of the closing event of DemenzDinge. The four-year research and model project of the…

German version available Social design usually aims not only at the design of products or services, but often develops solutions and innovations for complex systems. That’s why the problems that play just as crucial a role in any other design process and become risks of failure become even more apparent…

German version originally published on nuernberg.digital, also available on our blog It’s a nice and, above all, catchy image: there are the “digital natives”, those who are virtually born into the digital world. And there are the “digital immigrants” who first have to enter this “new territory” as Angela Merkel…

German version available More than a hundred years ago, in 1919, the “Staatliches Bauhaus” was founded in Weimar and its social utopian ideas had an impact far beyond design and architecture — until today. A “laboratory of modernity”, in other words, whose new edition was initiated by the European Union…

German version available When we think of digital identities, we often think of a regulatory context: the electronic signature, the vaccination certificate, the digital driver’s license, the digital ID card. But digital identity starts much earlier and has very different facets. As soon as we create an account, we have…

German version available Service design has become so increasingly important primarily because we have already been experiencing the transition from product- to service-dominated business models for years. “…aaS” offerings (“… as a Service”) can now be found in every industry. Often, these services are much more small-scale and low-threshold than…

German version available Digital Wisdom is the subject of #SDNue Social Design Forum Nürnberg’s Edition Zero. But what is digital wisdom? And why and how should we, as a society, address the topic and actively shape it? Wisdom is etymologically based on the Middle High German wīs, wīse, which means…

German version available The medium is one of those terms for which there is no clear definition. Media theory, media philosophy and media studies, they all, and also individual writers and philosophers, have tried to define the terminology without ever unifying it. Paul Virilio, the French philosopher and cultural critic…