What design can do! Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse

Stop designing and start thinking

Five Years of What Design Can Do have shown what design is capable of in numerous ways. Design is a force to change, and change is badly needed right now. 15 students of the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) were visiting the conference »What design can do« in Amsterdam from 21st to 22nd of May 2015. The HfG-group was also visiting the Stedlijk Museum. Participants: Sara Abtahi, Berenike Eimler, David Brose, Nikolas Brückmann, Laura Brunner, Li Chen, Ines Feyrer, Magdalena Fournillier, Guodong Zhang, Felix Kosok, Paul Pape, Ping Zeng, Karin Rekowski, Miriam Steinmacher, Tobias Teickner 

What design can do! 

 

What Design Can Do is an international platform about the power of design. WDCD promote design as a catalyst of change and renewal and a way of addressing the societal questions of our time. WDCD do this by means of this blog, by organizing live events such as a conference, exhibitions, workshops, a filmfestival and by sharing our findings in various media. 

What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
David Kester (Moderator), Richard van Larken (Initiator) and Hadassah de Boer (Moderator)
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Ellen Alvarez & Dgai and the Dutch Gospel Arts Institute
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
»Do you want a revolution!?«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Michael Johnson (UK) »The world of not-for-profits has become a fertile testing ground for new approaches to modern branding«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Alejandro Magallanes (Mexico) »A thousand word combined can create six million images«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Jonathan Spampinato (USA) »Better shelter gives refugee families a safer place to call home«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Diébedo Francis Kéré (Burkina Faso) »People are the basis of every piece of work«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Cameron Sinclair (UK) »There are millions of ideas to change the world, but unless you build them they don't count«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Césare Peeren (Germany) »We should reuse all the resources we've been digging up in the past 150 years several times«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Sam Bompas (UK) »Willy Wonka during his freewheeling student day's«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Rogier Klomp & Shuchen Tan »What are doing SHELL?«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Bernard Lahousse »Can taste be designed?«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Campana Brothers (Brazil) »Our work brings a concept of hope«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Sissel Tolaas (Norway) »Why don't we have a language for smell yet?«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Stefan Sagmeister (USA) »I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions«
What design can do! Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Jeroen Junte (Netherlands) »Design is inevitable«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Alex Atala (Brazil) »The most powerful social media is food«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Three more important Questions
What design can do! Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
»Get up, stand up, stand up for your right. Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight«
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
What design can do! Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse
Visiting of the Matisse Exhibition
What design can do? Excursion Hesse Class to Amsterdam 2014 Prof. Klaus Hesse