Schüten and Pfromm were invited to teach at the Bauhaus. In the year of its 100th anniversary. Well, they taught a four-day workshop “circular economy for designers” at the Design Faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar, founded by the great Lucius and Annemarie Burckhardt. It was a great week. The students were smart and the staff […]
In March and April 2019 Christian Schüten and Eric Pfromm were invited by the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. They taught an 8-day-workshop on circular economy with students of product design in 6th semester. The students are very diligent and productive. Five circular economy design concepts and designs were shown at the […]
The second workshop of the grand India tour took place at at the NID Campus in Gandhinagar with post graduate students mostly from "Strategic Design". What we learned: The National Institut of Design was founded on ideas of Ray and Charles Eames as proposed in the "India Report", after Nehru asked the designers 1959 to visit [...]
For the last of the three workshops Schüten and Pfromm travelled to Bengaluru (Bangalore). At the NID campus there the first years of post graduate students Universal Design and Retail Experience participated. The campus in Bengaluru is very nice with a rooftop cafeteria where students meet for meals and tea every day.
The Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad invited Christian Schüten and Eric Pfromm to India. Over three weeks they gave lectures, talks and workshops in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar and Bengaluru. They visited institutions, colleges, high schools and festivals. At heart it was about “Designing for circular economy”, a strategy that -as it turned out- resonates with Indian traditions and […]
