HMKW is getting ready for the future: Selected rooms on campus at all three locations are currently being equipped with new digital audio technology. Sennheiser's array microphones and loudspeakers now make hybrid teaching even more feasible.
Next Monday, April 12, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will address students. With his speech, Steinmeier wants to encourage the students.
Welcome, new students! Due to the Corona pandemic, the enrollment ceremonies for the summer semester 2021 take place online at the three HMKW locations. Cologne and Berlin were the first to start. The Frankfurt campus will welcome all new students in the next few days.
HMKW has decided to follow the urgent recommendation of many epidemiologists and will therefore remain closed on Maundy Thursday. This day of rest applies to all employees of HMKW and is intended to contribute to the fight against the pandemic.
Last Friday, the online conference DE SIGN RE SEARCH has been all about current topics and trends in visual communication. Bachelor and master students of HMKW Berlin presented their self-selected research topics in short presentations and discussed, among other things, with multimodality expert Jana Pflaeging from the University of Salzburg about design that not only conveys a clear aesthetic, but also carries a message.
An afternoon full of creative input from the world of motion design: This is what HMKW students were able to experience last Friday. At the virtual Motion & Design Conference, guests spoke about their practical experiences, their projects, and were open to answer any kind of questions.
How can you set the course for your future career while still studying? And how can you create marketing campaigns that actually have a lasting effect on people? On January 28, students from the M.A. Public Relations and Digital Marketing program had the perfect opportunity to talk to marketing experts during Prof. Dr. Ingo Knuth's lecture and ask all their questions about starting a career and everyday challenges in the marketing field.
This semester, students of the program M.A. Public Relations and Digital Marketing (PRDM) at HMKW Berlin are developing strategic communication concepts for Solarisbank, Europe's leading banking-as-a-service platform. Founded in 2016, the Berlin-based company with around 400 employees and more than 160 million in financing capital is thus offering the international Master's students insights into day-to-day practice and a concrete field of work.
With the global pandemic and related measures such as border closures, lockdowns and social distancing, anthropology and many aspects of life have moved into the world of the digital. In a new online journal, students and researchers of the study program M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology have devoted themselves to a wide variety of aspects of this digital transformation of anthropology and focused on phenomena of the digitized world from an anthropological perspective.
How can migration be perceived from a new perspective? In Prof. Nora Bibel's online seminar "Documentary Photography" of the M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology program, photographer Michael Danner gave the students exclusive insights into his project "Migration as Avant-Garde" and the concept for the current exhibition at C/O Berlin.