Provozierte Spuren – Prozesse perfekter Imperfektion

Name(s) of graduate(s):

Heiko Bauer

2026

Hochschule Düsseldorf

New Craft Object Design

Master of Arts

Description

This work examines the aesthetic significance of imperfection, traces, and beauty in the tension between chaos and order. Based on theoretical positions on fractals, Wabi-Sabi, tracking, and rhetorical design, imperfection is understood not as a defect, but as design potential. In the practical part, traces are photographically documented, analyzed, experimentally investigated, and finally translated into a piece of furniture. The resulting “Traces Sideboard” combines industrial precision with temporal change through patina and shows beauty as a process-like, open state.