Climate change, migration, and the scarcity of resources are challenges of a globalized world that can only be solved by working together in an international setting. Today’s studies, teaching, research, and transfer are international by their very nature. This new edition of the Forum focuses on the university’s international activities and collaborations. The spectrum ranges from the latest edition of the International Days, which was flanked by the Multiversum exhibition and an International Movie Night, to an architecture workshop in Tel Aviv and an exchange project with the Ulaanbaatar Art Academy, where German and Mongolian design students artistically transformed leftover materials. An interview with the Head of the International Office addresses how Mainz University of Applied Sciences can utilize its practical approach even more systematically and strategically in internationalization.
Further topics include an innovative project on organic-based materials in product design; the Ocean’s ABC exhibition, which explored new possibilities in the presentation of scientific findings; and, last but not least, the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology i3mainz.
The print edition of Forum is available in the Holzstrasse foyer, in the Magistrale on campus, and in the LUX Pavilion.
CONTENT
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Inspiring International Collaboration
GABRIEL BELINGA BELINGA – International Days at Mainz University of Applied Sciences
What if?
SYLVIE PAGÉ – How many universes are there? An exhibition at the LUX Pavilion
Feel the Cringe – International Movie Night
SYLVIE PAGÉ – International short film project
From Dessau to Tel Aviv
REGINA STEPHAN – International student workshop of the Architecture Department
Everything was repurposed in traditional nomadic culture
KIRSTIN ARNDT – A German-Mongolian exchange project involving art and design students from Mainz and Ulaanbaatar addressed the global waste of resources
FROM TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Rural Life in the Future
TORBEN HAMMERLE – An award-winning project on the development of housing construction
“We combine practical approaches and basic research here”
GERD BLASE – 25 years of i3mainz
Digitalization in the Construction Industry
AXEL FREIBOTH, CHRISTIAN DEICHMANN, FRANK GEORG REIS, CLAUDIA SCHRÖDER – Simulation using a digital building model
Ocean’s ABC
MONIKA AICHELE, KATJA DAVAR – New possibilities in the presentation of scientific communication
Organic-Based Materials in Product Design
BERND BENNINGHOFF – An innovative teaching project in collaboration with partners from industry
Open your eyes!
GREGOR ADE, HANNAH KRAUSKOPF, SILKE PHILIPPS-DETERS – A tour of the creative and media industry in Mainz
Between the Real and Virtual Worlds
LUKAS METZGER, TRANG NGUYEN – The IT Management master’s degree program examined ‘Digital Twins’
INTERVIEW
“We want to use our practice-based approach even more systematically and strategically in internationalization.”
An interview with Gabriel Belinga Belinga on the internationalization strategy of Mainz University of Applied Sciences
STAFF
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Müller
NICOLE BRUHN – The last co-founder of i3mainz retires
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Antomo / Simon Rohlmann / Dr. Franziska Klemstein / Prof. Anja Soeder
LITTLE NOTES
First Day for Research and Transfer / Information Day 2023 / Best of Design / Veronika Weingärtner: shape of color / Digital Qualification of Immigrants / What Cinema Can Do – 99 Movie Tips / Inspiration for Future Leaders