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Yes please! It has been a wonderful reading. Thank you for sharing.

Mari Mater O'Neill

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 1:06 PM Lubomir Savov Popov <[log in to unmask] wrote:

> I think Klauss Krippendorf can offer first-hand information as an Ulm
> graduate.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Lubomir
>
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> research in <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Francois Nsenga
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 11:55 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: The Ulm School
>
> Many thanks, dear Ursula, for this long post! Quite generous of you, and I
> deeply appreciate!
>
> But once more, you close saying:
> " the ′Ulm Model′ continues to have a major influence on international
> design education.... many of the former teachers and students, went to
> other schools and developed their careers at other places all over the
> world. So the influence of the short period of Ulm school of design is
> still remarkable."
>
> I am sincerely curious and eager to learn more about that influence
> 'throughout the world'.Three decades ago, I personally and immensely
> benefited from a short 6 months training I received from Michel Millot, a
> graduate from Ulm just before it closed. MIchel and his team had just
> opened the then Centre de création industrielle, at Centre Goerges
> Pompidou. And as well, approaches were made at the same time for an
> eventual collaboration between the Centre and the École de Design
> Industriel at l'Université de Montréal, where I was then ending my
> training. And I was sent to Paris, in a plan that I would, on my return,
> introduce the "Ulm way" (???) into my Alma Mater. This didn't materialize,
> and short after Michel and the two collaborators left the Beaubourg CCI.
> They immediately started  ISUC (Institut des sciences de l'usage et de la
> conception), trying to infuse and expand the 'Ulm way/model" through a
> private practice, but this venture didn't last long neither.
>
> After all those successive failures and closures that I personally know
> of, combined with the two other not long lived cases also reported by
> Tiphaine, I want to know if, outside Germany and France, and Australia
> (David Sless), there have been more successful influence cases of the 'Ulm
> Model' and approach to design. Dear Klaus, your input in/from the USA.
> please?!
>
>  Perhaps the influence has been rather diffuse and indirect, through
> individuals developing new disciplines and approaches such as Systems
> design, Design Management, etc., as you repeatedly mention in your post?
>
> And now to the list,.can we get more testimonies to learn further from?
> Second, are there among us those who think the 'Ulm Model' is worth to be
> revived and pursued? How and where that could be?
>
> Once more many thanks to you, Ursula, and to all!
> François
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:02 PM Ursula Tischner <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Francois,
> >
> > thanks for your questions about Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, HfG
> > Ulm, Ulm School of Design….
> >
> > In addition to what Tiphaine wrote. Here a couple of more facts and
> > thoughts about Ulm (a short summary):
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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