Collective Design, Nina Pawlicki

Umbau für die NGO "Über den Tellerrand"

Since 2015 Nina Pawlicki has been collaborating with the NGO Über den Tellerrand – which can loosely be translated as ‘cooking outside the box’. In their own word this explained what they are doing: “cooking and bringing together people from all over the world, overcoming barriers and helping strangers to become friends”. In 2015 Nina Pawlicki and a team of students designed and build the first KitchenHub in Berlin, that has become a very popular and unique place for mutual exchange on an eye level ever since. The module ‘Collective Design – design for change’ was organized as a close collaboration with the local satellite of the NGO Über den Tellerrand in Linz.
The module focused on the development of a skillset for organizing inter- and transdisciplinary groups in design processes that aim to trigger change. It was subdivided into a theoretical and a more practice-oriented part. The theoretical part included lectures on methods and tools for agile organization formats, DesignBuild and circular construction principles. It was accompanied by various short tasks that aimed to implement and test the newly gained knowledge.

The practical part consisted in designing and building of a new home for the NGO Über den Tellerrand. Within a short time frame the team of students completely transformed a former sports club into a welcoming, multifunctional space – the KitchenHub Linz.