The design theory exercise is the continuation of the design theory lecture from the 1st semester. The exercise is about handing in the term paper from the design theory lecture and getting personal feedback on it. We will meet for individual discussions after your submission on 07.04.25. Please drop it as a PDF into the Teams folder, that will soon be set up. The 10-minute individual return meetings will always take place on Tuesdays between 11am and 2pm. You choose the time of your return meeting yourself via a Doodle link, which I will send out in good time.

The seminar deals with the role of software in creative processes. What significance does it have in everyday and professional environments? When are these areas also interlinked and how can they be moved out of the self-evident status they have long had in our dealings with them? Why could this be helpful or meaningful? In order to find possible answers to these questions, the seminar will, on the one hand, look at historical developments in software. The main aim here is to explore the ideas with which software, especially software used in the creative field, was developed. On the other hand, the seminar aims to look ahead and invite students to question the historical developments and the everyday use of programs and to turn them upside down in a planned practical unit. How can you work unexpectedly with software if you perhaps use it for something for which it was never intended? What creative potential is then released? The historical and practical levels of the seminar will also be underpinned by a theoretical level that deals with these questions from the perspectives of creativity theory, image theory, media theory and philosophy. Popular cultural and artistic works will also be discussed that resist the paths often prescribed by the software and try out new creative options.