Non-Human Centered Design Seit einigen Jahrzehnten arbeiten Designbüros unter anderem mit Methodenkatalogen und Denkweisen wie dem User-Centered Design, dem Human-Centered Design oder...
Conference – Design in Times of Crisis Carla Cardoso has invited Matthias to discuss Design in Times of Crisis with Zoy Anastassakis and Guilherme Sousa at...
Design in Crisis Exploring the Value, Possibilities and Capabilities of Design in Times of Crisis The current situation confronts us once again...
Jack of All Trades #02 Jack of All Trades is a foundational course for all 4th term students and aims to deliver an all-embracing...
Selection of Master and Bachelor Theses (2019–2020) A selection of Master and Bachelor theses from students I have supervised at the faculty of design at the...
Workshop for Vientos de Libertad in Buenos Aires Together with Argentine journalist, author and curator Luján Camabriere and Buenos Aires based designer Ana Clara Waserman, Matthias gave...
Ambiente Trade Fair The showcased designs are a selection of works from a collaboration between the Faculty of Design at the HAWK...
Rethinking PaperFoam »Rethinking PaperFoam« has been a collaborative project between the Faculty of Design at the HAWK University of Applied Sciences...
The Netherlands and Belgium As part of the PaperFoam project, we went on a field trip to visit our cooperative partner PaperFoam in...
Jack of All Trades #01 Jack of All Trades is a foundational course for all 4th term students and aims to deliver an all-embracing...
Metafaktische Gestaltung / Meta-truth Design About wigs, maps and carbon-look This time my course is based within the Architectural Theory department. Once again the...
Postfaktische Gestaltung / Post-truth Design Design between Illusion and Disillusion Post-truth Design is less based on truth and facts, but rather strives towards emotions...
Open Space Zeitz Matthias did talk about Post-truth Design – Design between Illusion and Disillusion and his current project at the Burg...
Berlin & Meeting with the Roski School of Design (USC) After our meeting with a group of students and teachers from the Roski School of Design (USC – University...
Mythen des Postfaktischen / Myths of the Post-truth symposium at the University of Art Mainz Matthias was invited to talk about Post-truth Design – The Illusion of Truth and Facts at the Mythen des...
Los Angeles and Las Vegas For two weeks, me and my mixed Bachelor/Master class went on a field trip Los Angeles and Las Vegas....
Product and Corporate Identity As part of the lecture series Corporate Identity at the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture, this 90...
The Great Plains Art Institute at Sinte Gleska University (Mission, USA) During my visit of the The Great Plains Art Institute at Sinte Gleska University in Mission (South Dakota), I...
University of the Arts Philadelphia (Philadelphia, USA) As part of the short list for the position of a Professor of Master of Design in Product Design...
Selection of Master and Bachelor Theses (2012–2014) During my teaching years in Detmold, I was supervising different Master and Bachelor theses, both as first and second...
Product and Corporate Identity As part of the lecture series Corporate Identity at the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture, this 90...
Die Flut der Dinge / The Flood of Things About Preserving, Archiving and Storing Since man passes on it’s knowledge, skills and experience to the subsequent generations not...
New York City This field trip with my Master project The Flood of Things took us to New York City. We’ve visited...
Wohnen im Detail / Living in Detail Interior Design for People with Mental and Physical Handicaps In this project I was partnering with the DRK Ibbenbüren...
Breaking the Bubble #02 The worlds social systems are all based very much upon the way resources, goods and products are being treated...
The Netherlands This mandatory field trip for both BA architecture and interior architecture students took us on a round trip to...
Von der Wunderkammer zum Warenlager / From Cabinets of Curiosities to Self-Storage Buildings As part of the lecture series Domestic Design at the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture, this 2h...
In Between Borders In line with this years theme of the Experimenta Design in Lisbon – No Borders – we will focus...
Welt am Draht / World on Wire Wire is very likely the worlds most important semi-finished product. Coat hangers, shelving systems, chairs, lamp shades, telephone cables,...
My Home is My Cup of Tea We are investigating the word Heimat, which is German for home, but in a wider sense. It is a...
Lisbon Field trip to the Experimenta Design in Lisbon, Portugal including a workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts of...
ÖkoRAUSCH Festival Matthias Ries was invited to talk about the concept and results of his two Master-projects “Postapocalyptic Artifacts” and “Car-free...
DMY Design Festival Berlin Field trip to the DMY Design Festival in Berlin 2013. We did exhibit the two master projects Post-apocalyptic Artifacts...
Autofreies Europa / Car-free Europe Imagine a Europe without cars. Which artifacts will be required for this setting? What will happen to the land,...
Meet My Skills When one is researching on designers of the past and present, you’ll likely register, that their newer designs were...
Branding Detmolder Schule Every year, the number of freelancers is increasing, yet, not everyone has learned how to deal with the bureaucratic...
Breaking the Bubble #01 The worlds social systems are all based very much upon the way resources, goods and products are being treated...
Bottled Design. A New Vision of Design Education (Bucharest, Romania) Paper at the international conference Artists in Industry in Bucharest (Romania).
Film Nights The Film Night was an additional voluntary Thursday/Wednesday night offer open to all students of the school in order...
Post-apocalyptic Artifacts (MA) Apocalypse, the end of time, times of change conjures up a threatening scenario. However the Greek translation as »exposure,...
Friends of Friends A night over at friends is known to us since we were kids. Besides the financial aspects we also...
From Capitalist Dependant to Post-Capitalist Leader The worlds social systems are all based very much upon the way resources, goods and products are being treated...
Upcycling and its Role in Post-apocalyptic Scenarios (Berlin, Germany) Talk at the Berlin based gallery Under The Mango Tree / Berlin (Germany) about the conception and misconception of...
From Capitalist Dependant to Post-Capitalist Leader (Lisbon, Portugal) Guest lecture at the Master class of Prof. Raul Cunca at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University...
AHA-Labor at the ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) Visualisation workshop at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany) for students from secondary schools.
Contemporary and Future Aspects of Design (Hangzhou, China) I was invited to take part in the Opening of the Phoenix Design Center in Hangzhou by Jianping He....
Design, Quo Vadis! (Wellington, New Zealand) As part of my application procedure for the position of a Lecturer in Industrial Design at the Victoria University...
