Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

Design Talk OpenIdea BA 4

Degree programme InterMedia
Subject area Design
Type of degree Bachelor
Full-time
Summer Semester 2025
Course unit title Design Talk OpenIdea BA 4
Course unit code 025218043010
Language of instruction English
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) Compulsory
Teaching hours per week 1
Year of study 2025
Level of the course / module according to the curriculum
Number of ECTS credits allocated 1
Name of lecturer(s) Sarah SCHLATTER
Requirements and Prerequisites

None

Course content
  • discussions with guests about technological developments: what does design mean in a high-tech world? Are we restricting ourselves to selection of and resistance to unpleasant developments? What design scope do we continue to use? How has humanity’s image of itself changed as a result of technological developments? When programmes write and machines build, when variants are tested using the random principle and systems are generated in ever more complex interactions that we are only able to observe but no longer understand the individual aspects of, what will the consequences be?
  • computer control, pressure sensors, gesture control, voice control etc.
  •  simulation systems, generative design, implementation of data, movement, music in animation
  • virtual reality, avatars
  • augmented reality, data glasses
  • tracking, sensors, big data
  • Internet of Things
  • computer viruses
Learning outcomes

The students are able to engage in specialist discussions, ask technical questions appropriate to the topic and obtain information.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Expert lectures, discussions and free lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

Immanent examinations: attendance and participation

Comment

None

Recommended or required reading
  • Wagner, Thomas (2015): Robokratie. Google, das Silicon Valley und der Mensch als Auslaufmodell. Köln: PapyRossa Verlag.
  • Schulz, Thomas (2015): Was Google wirklich will. Wie der einflussreichste Konzern der Welt unsere Zukunft verändert. Hamburg: Spiegel-Verlag.
  • Müller, Oliver (2010): Zwischen Mensch und Maschine. Vom Glück und Unglück des Homo faber. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Face-to-face instruction with mandatory attendance