Digital Workshop Design

The Digital Workshop Design is a collaborative, digital teaching and learning laboratory for all study programs at the Faculty of Design. The laboratory, in which joint teaching and learning is supplemented and promoted through and with the help of new, digital technologies, is intended to be a point of contact and offer support for students (e.g. with their own digital project ideas) and lecturers.

The focus and challenge here is on digital and collaborative work organization and knowledge management in the

Objectives:

The Digital Workshop Design sees itself as an interface between digital and real space and thus enables design students to work with hardware and software on a project basis.

• Training and further education of students' digital design skills primarily, but not exclusively, in the areas of VR / AR, creative coding, 3D and other virtual or hybrid formats (operating and using, informing and researching, communicating and cooperating, producing and presenting, analyzing and reflecting, problem solving and modeling.
• Recording the market (software, hardware) and digital tools. The results are made openly available on the teaching platforms used, such as ILIAS and Conceptboard.
• Support for lecturers in the technical area (technology and knowledge transfer, technology loans, instructions, checklists, explanatory videos, etc.)
• Development of a platform for digital knowledge management.
• Promotion of exchange between students, lecturers at Fachhochschule Dortmund, in the RuhrValley, university network, in NRW (and beyond) in the field of design
• Establishment of collaborative work and digital knowledge transfer through joint work on learning platforms such as ILIAS, Conceptboard, Miroboard, through learning videos and the use of Webex etc.
• The promotion of artistic and creative engagement with the self in the digital age, with the relationship between humans, interfaces and technology, with the algorithmic structures of the present (data mining, bots, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.), using both analog and digital methods.

• Technology-related short workshops, for example in the areas of AR, VR and 3D (Webex, Microsoft Teams and/or on site), also on demand (with the appropriate number of participants), as individual measures or to support seminars and projects
• Course support for lecturers, e.g. technical and content-related research and support, in person and via systems such as Microsoft Teams or others
• Involvement of students with special knowledge (talent scouting), who are then involved in teaching and in the creation of teaching materials and pass on the existing/acquired knowledge (collaborative learning, system that encourages the sharing of knowledge through joint projects and in future can also offer workshops and joint projects without the support of full-time lecturers, supervised and organized by the workshop management, if necessary in consultation with the lecturers).

We hope for your active participation and your interest in using the offers. We are open to suggestions, ideas and tips regarding our offers, the technical equipment and organization of the Digital Design Workshop and invite you to develop the workshop together with us according to your needs.

Feel free to contact us for technical support (e.g. in the form of workshops) in relation to your courses.

*) The concept for the "Digital Workshop Design" was developed by:

Prof. Oliver Langbein / ORD
Prof. Anne-Kathrin Schulz / ORD
Prof. Susanne Brügger / Photography
Prof. Roger Walk / KD
Prof. Ulrike Brückner / KD
WHK Claudia Mai, B.A.