The Design Department of ISI Yogyakarta and Hochschule Hannover University of Applied Sciences are holding the Design Thinking Workshop 2022 for 3 days, from May 23-25, 2022. This workshop is a routine event held annually, which began in 2015. Each year, 25 students from Hochschule Hannover visit ISI Yogyakarta to conduct a workshop with 25 students from various study programs at ISI Yogyakarta. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of this workshop, students are encouraged to work together in teams with diverse members. Some of the students joining are from the Interior Design, Product Design, Visual Communication Design study programs, and the Art Craft Department of ISI Yogyakarta.
However, due to the pandemic situation, workshops that are usually held offline at ISI Yogyakarta must be held in a hybrid manner, a combination of offline and online. 25 ISI Yogyakarta students conducted the workshop from inside the classroom, but remained connected through the zoom platform with 25 students from Hochschule Hannover. It was a challenge to conduct the workshop through online media. Moreover, the basic characteristic of this workshop is to work together and discuss to formulate problems and generate innovative ideas. However, this is an opportunity for students to use technology to support working in a team with various dynamics. Various applications were used instead of whiteboards, post-its, and sketches that are often used during their work as aspiring designers. Despite the challenges, it can be proven that working in teams using online media is a new way that can be used in this workshop.
Still in a pandemic situation, students participating in the workshop worked by focusing on how to create innovations to solve various problems that arise during and after a pandemic. The workshop begins with interviews with resource persons who are brought in, to try to dig up information and find insight into how design will play a role in organizing life after a pandemic. After that, by working in groups, students will discuss and brainstorm to try to formulate problems, and then offer solution ideas. It is not easy to conduct an online design thinking process in 3 days. However, it is a challenge that will make the designer a person who must be able to work in challenging and challenging situations. The results of this 3-day workshop will later be exhibited in the Fine Art Exhibition in the framework of the 38th Anniversary of ISI Yogyakarta which will open on May 30, 2022 at the RJ Katamsi Gallery ISI Yogyakarta.
Two designers were invited as speakers from Indonesia and Germany, namely Nor Jayadi, S.Sn., M.A. who is also a lecturer at ISI Yogyakarta, and Ann-Sophie Kuchler, to share about the situations and problems faced during the pandemic. Ann-Sophie Kuchler, a designer specializing in healing art, stated that during the pandemic, healing art greatly helped patients to recover. One of its manifestations in applying healing art to help many people is by creating a start-up, Resonanzraum. This is a project where Kuchler designs artworks and interior elements that are applied in hospitals to create a healing atmosphere for patients. She believes that healing is as important as efficiency, as many illnesses are caused by stress itself. Nevertheless, she believes that the current challenge is how to convince clients that many people need healing right now.
Within this workshop series, an Online Seminar titled “Design & Post-Pandemic Recovery” will be held on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 3:00 PM Western Indonesian Time. This seminar will feature two speakers: Dr. Adhi Nugraha from ITB and Dr. Friedrich Weltzien from Hochschule Hannover. Dr. Adhi Nugraha will present material titled Post-Pandemic Design Calibration, while Dr. Weltzien will present material titled The Creative Break, “I Prefer Not To” as an Inspired Decision. This seminar can be joined via the Zoom platform with Meeting ID: 951 2344 9282 and Passcode HSH-ISIYK.
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