News : IMD Institute of Media and Design

// Recent Publication //

RECALLS - RECONSTRUCTIONS - PROJECTIONS
_Timebased Design Processes in Architecture
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RECALLS-RECONSTRUCTIONS_PROJECTIONS

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How can architecture intervene in challenging situations? How
can it influence social dynamics and give rise to new forms of
activity? What are the methods, tools, and media that it uses
and what roles do they play in generating new knowledge?

Taking these questions as its starting point, the volume explores
the potential of architectural design to disrupt and transform
existing systems and contexts by employing technical, aesthetic,
and symbolic practices and visualization techniques. The
development of new time-based media of investigation, imagination,
and cooperation renders design eminently suitable for initiating
actions of transgression, resistance, and collective participation.

Based on these considerations, the volume sheds light on design
viewed as a critical spatial practice, knowledge creation, and form
finding. The theoretical and practical contributions gathered here
open up a variety of content-led and methodological approaches
to the still-young field of media-cultural and architectural design
research.

With essays by Carolin Höfler, Matthias Karch, Kassandra Nakas,
and Philipp Reinfeld as well as case studies of designs, conceptual
sketches, performative realizations, and built structures by
students of the IMD _Institute of Media and Design.

RECALLS – RECONSTRUCTIONS – PROJECTIONS
Editors: Carolin Höfler and Matthias Karch

336 pages  , Hardcover , 175 x 303mm 
ISBN 978-3-910265-20-2
Publishing House: SORRY PRESS, München
29.- €
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https://www.sorry-press.com
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// Prof. Matthias Karch bids farewell //

Prof. Stefan Neudecker and Prof. Sebastian Goldschmidtböing
in conversation with Prof. Matthias Karch during the opening night
of the IMD-GROSSMARKTHALLE exhibit in July 2024 at
KUNSTHAFEN Cologne.
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Dear students of the Department of Architecture,

as of October 2024 my long-standing position as the Head
of the Institute of Media and Design has come to an end due
to my retirement. Our IMD website will therefore no longer be
updated with regard to new design project announcements for
students, starting with the winter semester 2024/25.

Of course, the IMD website will remain online and can be
explored by students and researchers as an inspiring archive
on timebased design processes in architecture.

I would like to thank all the students of the Department for
their trust and their consistently dedicated collaboration.
Working with you has always been a great pleasure for me.

All the best, Matthias Karch