PLAYNING – The Type Edition
Name(s) of graduate(s):Martin Gnadt
2026
HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen Gestaltung
Master of Arts
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Description
Design is facing challenges. AI as an avoidance tool for possible learning options as well as an oversupply of inspiration and biting templates lead to blocks.
Young designers in particular need to strengthen their resilience, formal language, and “doing muscle”. There is a lack of ability to withstand friction and competition, actively apply curatorial knowledge, and develop high versatility in their own work.
Idea Based on personal experience and insights from game theory, two things are linked: 1 Playful tasks in design with a didactic background combined with strategies and ideas from the cultural technique of battling in the field of hip-hop.
PLAYNING – The Type Edition is a modular, portable system for use in the lecture hall, conference room, studio, kitchen, or atelier as a training kit for necessary design skills.
Martin Gnadt
2026
Gestaltung
Master of Arts
Description
Design is facing challenges. AI as an avoidance tool for possible learning options as well as an oversupply of inspiration and biting templates lead to blocks.
Young designers in particular need to strengthen their resilience, formal language, and “doing muscle”. There is a lack of ability to withstand friction and competition, actively apply curatorial knowledge, and develop high versatility in their own work.
Idea Based on personal experience and insights from game theory, two things are linked: 1 Playful tasks in design with a didactic background combined with strategies and ideas from the cultural technique of battling in the field of hip-hop.
PLAYNING – The Type Edition is a modular, portable system for use in the lecture hall, conference room, studio, kitchen, or atelier as a training kit for necessary design skills.