Emil Herzberg and Nils Alck with their VR application "Climate 360".
Calvin Middel and Bence Ridder with their "Cana" tool.
Delighted with the best Bachelor's thesis of the semester: Kim Bujak with her product vision "Cocooner".
Hilko Fischer and his "Viertelbanner" for the city of Münster.
Hannah Frieling and Alina Heltweg with their Bachelor project "Stimmt's oder hab ich Recht(e)?!"
Noemi Thoß with her bachelor project "Jetzt vorlesen!".
Maike Meßner presenting her book "Wellig und Dellig"
Sophia Albring with her animated short story "Conversation with my demon". (Photo: Münster School of Design).
Münster (14 July 2023). The fact that the graduates of the Münster University of Applied Sciences' Design Department, the Münster School of Design (MSD), intensively busy themselves with their future and, above all, their desire to advance climate protection, becomes abundantly clear in the current Parcours graduation exhibition. Several projects delve into the topics of sustainability, resource conservation and climate change. And this is quite literally the case when viewers take a closer look at Nils Alck and Emil Herzberg's final project. In their VR "Climate 360" project, the two Bachelor graduates use virtual reality technology to turn the drastic effects of global warming into a virtual experience. With the help of VR glasses, users can immerse themselves in a number of biotopes, where they experience first-hand how the biotopes change over time.
Another duo demonstrates how to turn a waste product into a valuable material, with tight financial restraints. During an expedition to the Cape Verde Islands, Bachelor graduates Calvin Middel and Bence Ridder came across bagasse, a plastic alternative made from sugar cane. Here, for instance, the natural by-product can be used to make sustainable packaging. This is done with the purpose of innovatively reducing waste and promoting local, renewable resources. Middel and Bence present "Cana", a tool that is used to form bowls from bagasse. It is easy and inexpensive to replicate "Cana" anywhere in the world.
Kim Bujak's final thesis paper is about real innovation. With her "Cocooner" product vision, the Bachelor graduate presents an alternative contraceptive method for men. How does it work? The device is placed on the epididymis, where it heats the sperm. They become unable to move, making them sterile for four to six weeks. Bujak cooperated closely with the health tech start-up, RoNikJa, on her project, with the goal of providing possible investors a preview of the potential of the new technology. At the beginning of the project, the graduate had a prototype from RoNikJa, which was anything but appealing, due to its clamp-like appearance, somewhat reminiscent of a staple, Bujak developed the prototype further and created an aesthetic product that significantly increased user-friendliness. Bujak was also able to convince the MSD scientific advisory board of her project. The latter distinguished "Cocooner" as the best Bachelor's thesis of the semester.
Hilko Fischer and the duo of Hannah Frieling and Alina Heltweg present two projects that have a link to Münster. While the former designed various banners for Münster's individual districts, Frieling and Heltweg wish to educate Münster's children about their rights. By using an interactive fold-out map, they learn what rights they have, and what these rights actually mean. The fold-out map also contains a city map of Münster that marks various contact points within the city area, each of which focuses on a child's right and offers help to children in need.
The youngest members of society are also the subject of the final thesis paper submitted by Bachelor graduate, Noemi Thoß. With the Instagram reels she designed, it was her intention to counteract the trend of children being read to less and less these days. Her campaign, which also includes brochures and posters, is called "Jetzt vorlesen!" (Read somebody something now!)
The final projects of the Bachelor graduates Maike Meßner and Sophia Albring are sometimes funny and sometimes sad. In her illustrated book, Meßner gives an emotional insight into the lives of people with lipoedema. She addresses feelings of shame, anger or hopelessness and sensitively provides tips, tricks and uplifting words for those who are affected. In Albring's final project, the protagonist also struggles with her feelings, yet here the focus is not on an illness but on the topic of "procrastination". In the animated "Conversation with my demon" short story, a young, chaotic woman is trying to regain control over her life and get it back on track by overcoming procrastination - with success!
This weekend, in addition to those mentioned above, the Parcours exhibition will showcase approximately 70 other works. These present the passion for design in an understandable manner, documenting that MSD students grapple with a wide range of issues, all with the objective of offering solutions that are supported by design.