Experiment as method II / design built / projects / 1:1 / temporary architecture

Cuvillier published my book about creativity and innovation in the office. It is available in German and will soon also be available in English. Summary What is a collision? An unexpected meeting with an effect. And what is creativity? Generating something new. And what is a creative office? It is an environment which provides support for something new. And what sounds so simple really is that simple. There are certain places in the office where creative work can really happen. These are not places like office desks or meeting rooms, no matter where they might be. Nor are these just around the coffee machines or the table-tennis tables in offices. Above all, creative places are the corridors, the lifts, the stairways, the entrance halls. In offices that have been planned with innovation in mind, it is the spaces in between that make collisions possible: chance meetings that stimulate our intuitive system and, in doing so, provide for generating s...

                                Designstudents from Shanghai meet Students of Interior Design from Hochschule Coburg during a project for imm cologne 2017 Students from Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts created and realized the design for a stand at imm cologne 2018. The material was chosen acording to the exhibits: mock ups of chairs, designed by students at Shanghai Academy of Art and Design. These were built from wood and paper, which then were also used for the realization at imm cologne 2017. Website

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A feature on Collisions - only in German. By the german Radio Station Deutschlandfunk. Raumkonzept „Kollisionen“ Coburger Architekturprofessor entwirft Modell für kreatives Denken, Design Thinking, Disruption Telefoninterview Prof. Mark Phillips, Hochschule Coburg

Twenty years after the inauguration of State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart in 1996 I designed an exhibition about the stories of it's planing for OrangeBlu building sollutions. Orange Blu derives from the Stuttgart office of James Stirling, who build the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie (State Galery) - a famous building of the Post Modern. The office also built the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart about 15 years after the State Galery. fsb supported the exhibition and have some more information about the stories and the exhibition on their website: Still-got-the-rhythm