Who Designs our
(digital)(next)(uncanny)(interfacing)
Lifeworlds?
Praxis↭theory Seminars at the Hildesheim Faculty of Design Examine Current Interface Cultures and their Opaque Spheres of Production
Qualitative Design Research and Critical Design Praxistheory at the Nexus of Culture, Interfaces, and Strategy at the M.A. Gestaltung program Faculty of Design, HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hildesheim, Germany)
Chiara Marx: “B3 – What makes him a symbol of the break with traditions in furniture design?” (2025)
The document explains why Marcel Breuer’s B3 armchair—later called the Wassily Chair—marks a radical break with traditional furniture design. Created at the Bauhaus in 1925 for Walter Gropius’s Dessau interiors, the chair introduced tubular steel as a domestic furniture material and rejected heavy ornament in favor of lightness, clarity, and industrial production. Its name derives from Wassily Kandinsky, who admired and owned an early example, while its global fame was secured decades later through l^^icensed production and marketing by Knoll. The text also highlights the Bauhaus ethos of uniting art, craft, and technology, Margaretha Reichardt’s crucial textile innovations for the seat’s woven surfaces, and the chair’s role in democratizing modern design through serial manufacture and minimalist aesthetics
Chiara Marx: B3 – Was macht Ihn zum Sinnbild des Bruchs mit Traditionen im Möbeldesign?
Seminar work supervised by: Prof. Konstantin Haensch
This master’s thesis investigates how content strategies on TikTok can contribute to the visibility of artistic practice in jazz. Situating TikTok within the broader digital transformation of music cultures, the study examines how platform logics, algorithmic structures, and short-form video aesthetics reshape the conditions under which jazz musicians can present their work. Rather than focusing […]
This master’s thesis investigates how design can function as a research practice that makes knowledge in intercultural contexts visible and experientially accessible. Based on the project Concepts Trouvés, which examined English-language terms found in Beijing’s urban commercial landscape, the work reflects on how design ethnography and Research through Design can explicate implicit knowledge embedded in […]
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