Teaching 2017/18

In the academic years 2017/2018 Anja Lapatsch was teaching as an Artistic Associate in the subject area material | technology | sustainability | design within the Industrial Design course at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany.






Teaching 2017/18


In the academic years 2017/2018 Anja was an Artistic Associate in the subject are material | technology | sustainability | design within the Industrial Design course at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany.







04 Dispose



Lecturers_ Prof. Mareike Gast, Anja Lapatsch and Karl Schikora

In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Christa Liedtke, Wuppertal Institute and Conrad Dorer, Federal Environment Agency

Higher BA and MA students_ Marcel Bohr, Martha Sophie Kikowatz, Fabian Hütter,  Valena Ammon, Julia Ernst, Edda Rabold,  Jonas Jentsch, Lukas Unertl, Johannes Voelchert, Ferdinand Hintz, Sophie Thurner, Kevin Strüber, Max Michael Stalter, Netta Nahardiya

Photos_ Fabian Hütter, Julia Ernst,  Johannes Voelchert, Kevin Strüber, Max Michael Stalter, Marcel Bohr


Some products live forever, are even passed on from generation to generation. Others have a short life, are not used a second time and end up as garbage instead. Only rarely an equivalent product emerges from them. But is a long life always the better one? Are there -applications and situations where disposable products are more sensible, more sustainable and even better than durable products? We made it our task to develop deliberately short- life usage concepts, which are still, or precisely for this reason, sustainable. With external partners, we compared concepts, materials, services and application scenarios and assessed them with regard to their sustainability. We developed new conceptions and sensible scenarios for products that are surprising – not just because they are designed to be discarded.

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