TOGETHER // OSIJEK-STUTTGART-2020 // BLOG

 

The project is based on an innovative teaching concept for intercultural understanding especially with the Danube region. The interdisciplinary approach of HfK+G’s two study programs Communication Design (B. A.) and Advertisement and Market Communication (B. A.) lays the foundation for the 4 workshops carried out throughout the scope of the project continuing these workshop contents during the semester thus embedding them in the curricula of the study programs. 

Social Distancing

Monday – getting to know each otherOn the first day we had our first online meeting where we got to know each other and talked a lot. We talked about the similarities and differences between the restrictions in Hungary and in Germany during coronavirus. Surprisingly...

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TEAM 7 // Doing a Lookbook // Katharina, Kim and Bence

TEAM 7 // Doing a Lookbook // Katharina, Kim and Bence

Ups and Downs due quarantine We all are infected by the virus. So our lives has changed more or less in things we've never thought about they could change. Some things changed positive as well as some changed negative. Due our Diaries we collect our daily thoughts and...

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Day 3+4 // TEAM 5 // Doing a Lookbook

Day 3+4 // TEAM 5 // Doing a Lookbook

We reached the last two days of the workshop and our team went on with the subject of "OVEREATING". We choose to work on with this subject because we agreed that this is something that affects everyone of us and builds kind of a conection.We noticed that in everyones...

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DAY 3+4 // TEAM 1 // Doing a Lookbook

DAY 3+4 // TEAM 1 // Doing a Lookbook

How to learn to slow down in isolation? It’s a very hard period and we have to learn to slow down, because we can’t hurry now. Slow down- stop and move forward with new energy thanks to the rhythm of slowlife. Normally we are living in a fast-moving world with daily...

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DAY 2 // TEAM 7 // Doing Brainstorming // Time Management

DAY 2 // TEAM 7 // Doing Brainstorming // Time Management

Time Management We figured out what kinds of problems we must face the most when it comes to time management. In the beginning we discussed about main topics which are distraction and procrastination (both are similar, so we put them together) expectations from others...

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DAY 2 // TEAM 5 // Doing Brainstorming // Overeating

DAY 2 // TEAM 5 // Doing Brainstorming // Overeating

As for today we discussed what problems we share in quarantine.   And came to the following results: Strange feeling to walk around with a facemask. We all have the problem of facemasks in the supermarket and public places. Because of them you realize that Corona...

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DAY 2 // TEAM 4 // Doing Brainstorming // Inspiration

DAY 2 // TEAM 4 // Doing Brainstorming // Inspiration

Because inspiration has a lot to do with ideas and thinking we decided to sketch a big thought bubble and put a lot of tips how to find inspiration together in a very chaotic way because our mind can be a very chaotic and unstructured place too.   // Neufeld...

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DAY 2 // TEAM 1 // Doing Brainstorming // Work overload

DAY 2 // TEAM 1 // Doing Brainstorming // Work overload

Why did we choose the work overload? This problem is very typical for these days. The courses of the university are now online and the teachers are giving us more writing tasks because we can’t meet us in person, we can’t take presentations just with voice recording....

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DAY 1 // TEAM 7 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 7 // Doing Site Research

Space Research We compared our places and we noticed that we have a similar living situation. All of us live in a house, we have our own rooms to work in and we don’t have to share our working space with siblings or other people we live with. We have the ability to go...

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DAY 1 // TEAM 5 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 5 // Doing Site Research

Our working spacesThese are our "offices", where we study and live. Since quarantine this is the place where we spend most of our time.Where we would rather workIn this segment we wanted to show, what we think is missing at our working situation and where we would...

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DAY 1 // TEAM 4 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 4 // Doing Site Research

One´s own Space is a super personal and individual Place and especially in isolation a place of safety and retreat. We ourselves get used to the environment we live in quite quickly, because we see it every single day. Capturing pictures of our own space really...

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DAY 1 // TEAM 1 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 1 // Doing Site Research

Freya I am living in an apartment with two other girls. Our home is more than just a place where we sleep and eat. For me it is very important to have a feeling of coming home, especially during this time period, where the center of our vital interest is our home....

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DAY 3+4 // TEAM 4 // Doing a Lookbook

DAY 3+4 // TEAM 4 // Doing a Lookbook

Cartoons/Sketches: If you lack of inspiration just start with anything, maybe some little sketches. Draw your favourite cartoon or maybe you want to practice drawing people in a carricaturistic way. It´s also not bad if it is a little bit chaotic on your sheet of...

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DAY 3+4 // TEAM 3 // Doing a Lookbook

DAY 3+4 // TEAM 3 // Doing a Lookbook

Netflix: Our Liberator The isolation holds us like prisoners. Our own room has become a prison cell. Our everyday life is monotonous and offers little variety. All we can see through our window is always the same. We are alone with our thoughts. We lack motivation,...

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DAY 3+4 // TEAM 2 // Doing a Lookbook

DAY 3+4 // TEAM 2 // Doing a Lookbook

My case with motivation while in complete isolation in the quarantine was a weird thing. Normally I would be pretty motivated while going to classes and getting specific exercises and work to do. As soon as I have nothing to do for example in my vacation I would be...

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DAY 2 // TEAM 8 // Doing Brainstorming // Social Distance

DAY 2 // TEAM 8 // Doing Brainstorming // Social Distance

One of the hardest parts of social distancing is that you can´t see your loved ones in person. It´s easy to facetime your friends and at least talk to them through the camera but it´s way harder to stay in touch with people that are not very familiar with the modern...

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DAY 2 // TEAM 2 // Doing Brainstorming // Insomnia

DAY 2 // TEAM 2 // Doing Brainstorming // Insomnia

I love the night time. It´s quiet. It´s peaceful. And I´m happy and motivated to do stuff on my own. No distractions. Just me…only me. So I would stay up till 2am or 3am. I got into my own rhythm, but if I break the rhythm and stay half an hour longer awake then the...

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DAY 1 // TEAM 3 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 3 // Doing Site Research

My first day in quarantine was actually Monday last week. Before that I was working "quite normally". But because the second semester has started, I have to stay at home now. First I thought: once I'm in quarantine, I can improve my Spanish, do more sports and read...

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DAY 1 // TEAM 2 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 2 // Doing Site Research

The first new thing I discovered about myself was that a became lazier. Normally I'm an "always on the go" person, but since quarantine began I lost my motivation even in a daily basis. But luckily this amount of motivation is enough for me to do my daily workout...

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DAY 1 // TEAM 8 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 8 // Doing Site Research

Workspace of Lea-Marie: list of the items from working area; head-phones, air Pods, pencil case, diary, pinbard, pen holder, post-its, sslip off  paper, calendar, writing pad of folders, timetable. And the rest of my room. I also often work in my be, and not only att...

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DAY 1 // TEAM 6 // Doing Site Research

DAY 1 // TEAM 6 // Doing Site Research

The first task of the week is creating a photo collage or let’s a visual presentation of our work-space.  With my teammates, we did a video meeting in WebEx and our first thought about the task was that we want to keep our home as an intimate part of our lives. Then,...

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