The DTI project at FH Münster focuses on interdisciplinary learning through the course “Design, Technology, and Innovation in Münsterland,” addressing global challenges such as sustainability, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship. It includes activities like workshops, an “Innovation Bootcamp,” and collaborative project development, integrating flexible and innovative teaching methods. The project aims to institutionalize these formats across curricula, foster collaboration between departments, and engage students, academic staff, and industry partners. With a budget of 50.000 EUR (funded by the Wandelwerk, Center for Quality Assurance and Enhancement of FH Münster), the initiative seeks to create a long-term impact by enhancing future-oriented education and interdisciplinary approaches at FH Münster. The projected resulted into a summer-academy taught in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Production processes of traditional artistic handicrafts in several rural areas in the North-West of India are being analysed and examined. Main focus is to research the potential to up-cycle relating production processes including less pollution and less carbon monoxide emissions. Together with the project partner Dharma Life Labs and their sponsoring project partner IKEA Foundation the overall goal is to improve the lives of children by enabling their families to create sustainable livelihoods, and fight and cope with climate change.

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A project that looks into inter-professional teaching and learning opportunities between the fields of design and nursing. Based on a social awareness campaign that aims to optimise how nursing as a brand is seen by the society, several concepts for inter-professional higher education are tested out and are being analysed. The project was funded with 50.000 EUR by the Wandelwerk, Center for Quality Assurance and Enhancement of FH Münster.

Collaboration with Prof. Christiane Knecht (FH Münster, School of Health)

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A project proposal for prototyping and exploring future living concepts in the rural Münsterland region. The project features the design of several mini houses located along an “innovation axis” linking the Münster Technology Park with the developing Technology Park at the city of Havixbeck. A Center for the Future of Living becomes the hub for local companies to feature their innovative and sustainable products and to showcase those installed as part of a “living lab”.

Collaboration with Jason Cruz (NYUAD) and Agata Trojanowska (MSD).

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Over the past years the Majlis expanded from a social practice into a space of cultural and intellectual exchange. This research project asks the question of how the principles of the Emirati majlis could support the development of ideas in a digital world and draw on the global community without losing its distinctive physical aspects. The goal of this project is to develop a proposal for a dynamically generated network of meeting rooms in a virtual environment which can be used globally to discuss future priorities and to prototype a first version.

The project costs were funded by the Smithsonian Museum Washington. Collaboration with Prof. Adina Hempel (Zayed University, UAE) and Prof. Zlatan Filipovic (American University of Sharjah, UAE), Avatar design by Jannik Mannefeld (MSD) and Luis Kirchlechner (NTSI-Lab).

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