Category Archives: music

Vom Provisorium bis zur Improvisation – Margit Schild und Tom Bieling im Gespräch

Posted on October 24, 2017 by designabilities

. Manchmal – oft genug – geschieht Unerwartetes (ital.: improvviso). Dann müssen wir reagieren, mitunter entgegen unseren ursprünglichen Planungskonzepten: wir improvisieren. Etymologisch geht dies auch auf den Versuch zurück, dem Unvorhergesehenen entgegen zu wirken, also Dinge vorherzusehen und vorzubereiten (lat.: … Continue reading →

Posted in design research, designwissenschaft, event, exhibition, german/deutsch, music, performance, philosophie | Tagged Ad-hocism, Adhocism, Berlin, Charles Jencks, christopher Dell, design research lab, harald welzer, haus der kulturen der welt, hkw, improvisation, improvisieren, lucius burckhardt, margit schild, michael erlhoff, Nathan Silver, nid, non intenional design, tacit knowledge, tom bieling, Uta Brandes | Leave a comment

Kollisionen

Posted on February 27, 2014 by designabilities

Was passiert, wenn Mode und Architektur kollidieren, Design beim Tanz aufschlägt oder Gesellschafts- und Wirtschafts- mit Visueller Kommunikation zusammenstößt? Was, wenn Textil- auf Textgestaltung trifft, Performance die urbane Raumplanung befragt oder Kulturtheorie durch bildende Kunst und Musik herausgefordert wird? In … Continue reading →

Posted in design project, music | Tagged alexander katzmann, art, axel kufus, Berlin, campus, design, design research lab, flugmusik, jazz, kollisionen, kunst, performance, tanz, tilmann dehnhard, tom bieling, Udk, universität der künste, University of the Arts | Leave a comment

F L U G M U S I K (Kollisionen 2014)

Posted on January 11, 2014 by designabilities

Eine Woche lang arbeiteten Studierende aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen der Berliner Universität der Künste (UdK) zusammen an fliegenden Klangobjekten und klingenden Flugobjekten. Objekte, die schweben, gleiten, geworfen oder katapultiert werden. Objekte, die klingen, singen, knattern und flüstern. Einzige Grundbedingungen: kein Strom, … Continue reading →

Posted in art, design project, music, sound | Tagged 2014, Berlin, design research lab, flugmusik, flugobjekte, jazzinstitut, klangobjekte, kollisionen, tilmann dehnhard, tom bieling, Udk, universität der künste | Leave a comment

Duet for Crutches

Posted on January 4, 2014 by designabilities

Next Week the “Flugmusik” project will be starting at UdK. As we mentioned earlier: it’s gonna be cool and we will keep you posted about the process of the project. One cool aspect in advance can be found in (Co-Initiator) … Continue reading →

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“Flugmusik” – Jazz Institute Berlin meets Design Research Lab

Posted on December 6, 2013 by designabilities

[Dehnhard & Bieling: F L U G M U S I K] The Jazz Institute Berlin and the Design Research Lab are going to collaborate for early 2014. In the project Tilmann Dehnhard and Tom Bieling are going to work on flying … Continue reading →

Posted in design project, design research, music | Tagged Berlin, campus, design research lab, flug, jazz institute, kollision, kollisionen 2014, musik, tilmann dehnhard, tom bieling, Udk | Leave a comment

Beatiful Freak

Posted on November 8, 2010 by designabilities

“… Some people think you have a problem But that problem lies only with them …”* [eels: *beautiful freak, album cover; 1996] According to the “freaks”-subject, this beatiful catchy title-tune from EELS’s melancholic 1996-debut has been on top of our … Continue reading →

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Music and Deafness

Posted on March 18, 2010 by designabilities

In the context of popular music, there has always been an ambivalent relation to Loudness. On the one hand, certain music needs a certain volume to be fully perceived by the audience (think of live gigs or parties), on the … Continue reading →

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Dancer in the Dark

Posted on January 4, 2010 by designabilities

Selma (Björk), who is becoming blind, has “seen it all” in Von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark”:

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DEFEYES interprets EMINEM

Posted on September 1, 2009 by designabilities

DEFEYES, some call him the world’s fastest sign rapper, does Eminem’s “Loose yourself”, signing to every word and fluently interpreting rap, in this one:

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Deaf Music – Gehörlose Musik (by DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS)

Posted on July 5, 2009 by designabilities

In November 1998, many hearing-impaired people – and an equal amount of those who could hear just fine – made their way to the Prater der Berliner Volksbühne to witness a process as part of a series of events called … Continue reading →

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Disability Culture

Posted on June 17, 2009 by designabilities

(Picture from Bruce Conner’s video for Devo’s “Mongoloid”) ———————————————————————- “Yes, the doctor told me, boy, you don’t need no pills. Just a handful of nickels, the juke box will cure your ills.” Carl Perkins, disabled rockabilly pioneer ———————————————————————- As in … Continue reading →

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Welcome to DESIGNABILITIES!

Posted on June 1, 2009 by designabilities

… a research blog developed and run at

Posted in accessible, activism, advertisement, age, alternative communication, architecture, art, augmentative communication, awareness, bioethic, blind, blog, body, body modification, Calendar, Capability Simulation, care, co-design, comedy, Conference, cyborg, cymatics, deaf, deaf-blind, Definitions, demenz, design project, design research, design study, designwissenschaft, disability aesthetics, disability studies, echolocation, education, embodiment, Enhancement, event, exhibition, Experience Disability, fashion, Film, freak, game, gender, german/deutsch, graphic, humor, illiteracy, implants, interaction, interview, jewelery, jobs, Literature, movie, multimodality, music, neuroscience, people, performance, philodhopir, philosophie, photography, playful interaction, Politik, pop culture, posthumanism, prosthetics, prototyping, quote, reciprocal learning, report, research, senses, social design, sound, STS, sustainability and social innovation, synaesthesia, tactile communication, tangible interaction, team, toy, Transhumanity, typo, Uncategorized, universal design, virtual reality, visual communication | Tagged AAC, activism, aktivismus, Architektur, augmentative, Ökonomiekritik, barrierefrei, Bürgerwissenschaft, behinderung, blind, blind view, body, braille, Citizen Science, communication, deaf, deafblind, design, design for all, design research, design research lab, designabilities, designability, Designforschung, disability, fankultur, gebärdensprache, gehörlos, gesche joost, hci, inclusion, inclusive design, inklusion, interaction, interface, journal, Konsumkritik, kunst, lorm, participatory design, partizipation, perzeption, politik, Pop, Protest, protestkultur, science, sign language, silent talk, social design, social innovation, social integration, Soziotechnik, special needs, speechless, Stadt, Stadtsoziologie, STS, Techinksozoiologie, technology, teilhabe, Theorie, tom bieling, universal design, unterstützte kommunikation, Urbanism, usability, visual communication | Comments Off