HfG Ulm Foundation welcomes good will of Federal State Government

No public appropration capital so far

Ulm, June 16th 2010  (hfg) – The HfG Ulm foundation once more demonstrated its' profile at the EUNIQUE in Karlsruhe: 7.800 people visited the international design fair. Many of them showd great interest in the stand of the new "Center for Design HfG Ulm". Dr. Dieter Bosch, managing director of the HfG Ulm foundation, spoke on the topic of "Creative-Clusters: Future potentials for designer in economy and science – a HfG Ulm concept for  revitalizing our prospects".  It stressed the acceptation of Teamwork, Communikation und life long studying for todays' and futures' designer.

It gets more and more apparent how contemporary and topical the former HFG Ulm-education-model for interdisciplinary scientific knowledge transfer was and is. It stimulated the interaction of different specialist divisions and its' industry friendly developing departments. "In terms of cluster-cultivation this model is still a bull's eye", explains Dieter Bosch.

"Cluster-cultivation helps to tackle current public claims for continuity and sustainability, i.e. the responsibility of industries and the general public to protect ressources as well as the environment," says Bosch. "Cluster enable today's designer to meet present design requirements in their daily work. However, one has to consider that cluster-cultivation is underdeveloped in the south of Germany – just in contrary to the upper Rhein-river-region (NRW) and Berlin und Berlin". Considering this, Bosch sees it as pleasing that the Ministry of economy in Baden-Württemberg, Ernst Pfister, has tangible plans to promote cluster-cultivation in the Donau-region.

A focal point of the 60-square-metre-stand at the EUNIQUE fair was the innovative concept for the new "Ceter for Design HfG Ulm" which lies on three pillars. It will close the theoretical and practical vacuum that evolved after the closure of the legendary HfG Ulm school of design in 1968. The three-pillar-model:

• consists of the unique collection for design history of the 20th century, the HfG Ulm archive of the city of Ulm,

• the center of innovative and applied design. It will facilitate designers of varying disciplines to exchange their ideas in an open dialogue

•conference center for knowledge transfer in design, workshops, seminars, symposia and exibitions of present and future design (IFG Ulm).

Therewith the landmarked HfG Ulm buildings will get re-vitalised for the design branch.

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