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2021

Housing First Bachelor by Daniela Wömmel at BFGF

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In our work on furniture for Hamburg’s ‘Hinz & Kunzt’ housing first innitiative we were supportet by Daniela Wömmel. She joined our team to work on her industrial design bachelor thesis for Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Her research and professional input greatly improved the project. Also she finished her bachelor with a very good grade. […]

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2020

Christian Schüten sits in jury of ‘Silberstreifen”–award

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The Hamburg Cross Innovation Hub, designxport and page magazine have organized a competition of Hamburg designers to work on concepts, methods and products to offer solutions to pandemics, climate crisis or social issues. ‘Silberstreifen” translates as “silver lining”. Christan Schüten had the honor to be part of the jury that evaluated the entries.

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2019

Achim Batzke, Industrial Design Engineer (M.S.)

Posted by | | Branding · C2C · Design · Photography · Social · Teaching

Achim Batzke joined our team to work on his master thesis for the University of Twente. His broad topic was sustainable packaging. He then concentrated on meat packaging for community supported agriculture; especially the ground meat of our friends at Kattendorfer Hof. For them he developed a system that’s customized to their needs and infrastructure. […]

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2016

GEGENWARTSAKADEMIE WORKSHOP

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2008

Lesehunde

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Jan Schmietendorf teaches a modern practice of reading and the use of libraries at Gesamtschule an der Burgweide. BFGF designed the Lesehund (reading dog) pro bono. It’s a mobile bookshelf for schools, that puts books where they are needed. The DIY-tutorial to built it can be downloaded free of charge. For those without technical means to get the […]

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