Sommersemester 2026, BA/MA Produkt-Design Produkt_Startseite

LIVING PATTERNS

Living Patterns is a project at the Weißensee School of Art and Design Berlin that explores the space between growth and fabrication. In response to the climate crisis, it asks how future products might emerge: through fully automated robotic manufacturing, or through renewed engagement with the logics of natural materials.

The water drop becomes a central experimental element, mediating between natural and artificial processes and blurring boundaries between material and tool, process and product, organic and digital.

Students move from simple dripping devices to robotic fabrication setups, exploring how much control - or openness to material agency - these hybrid systems require. The outcomes are not fixed objects, but dynamic, interwoven processes of making and growing.

Supervised by Sofia Fernández, Joana Schmitz

& Mareen Baumeister, with support from Prof. Barbara Schmidt, Jörg Hugo & Andreas Kallfelz.