ABOUT | THE CONSTITUTE

WHAT WE DO

The Constitute uses the potency of academic research, artistic practice and economic reason to create outstanding and unique experiences, objects and processes. Our work relies on digital and physical expressions, visual language for bodily presence, public space and inner peace, and the poetic qualities of speculation, error and inspiration.

Within the last 11 years we´ve been showcasing our work internationally and worked with clients and partners from cultural organisations, media outlets and research institutions. We contribute improvements of creative and structural processes and consulting in the fields of participation, education and aesthetic production.

All our work has a forecasting, speculative and partly critical approch. We strongly believe in the power of design to create impact on a social, economical or cultural level, to improve all people lifes. Sharing knowledge and enabling access to is important to us. Therefore we regularly phold courses and workshops in numerous academic institutions, helping students and professionals redefining and refining their designerly expertises. 2017 we started the Fabmobil project to bring creative technologies to youths in rural decentralized areas in East Germany.

WE CONSTITUTE

The Constitute is a gang of two plus. We are more than a lab and less than an institute. We combine quick and process driven innovation from experimental lab situations with the focused and academic work of an institutional organisation. Special needs demand special teams. We constitute units precisely selected on the expertise that is necessary to run a project. This process is basic to own art and research projects aswell as to commissioned works. Our fields of expertise are Art Direction, Research and Development, Speculative Design, Creative Technologies, Social Design and Time Travels. When things get complicated we widen our team with free radicals towards Digital Visuals, Hardware Programming, CAD Engineering, Music Performance and App Development.

PARTNERS & FRIENDS & CLIENTS

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Sebastian Piatza
is a product designer with a focus on intermedial and scientific work. Sebastian has been awarded numerous times for his works on neurological, social and optical design studies. Beside his design focused work, he holds workshops on design technique and plays and toured successfully as a DJ. He was member of the independent Media Art collective VR/Urban since 2009 is now running the experimental design company The Constitute together with Christian Zöllner. Since 2017 Sebastian is project manager of the social design project “Fabmobil“, that was kickstarted and developed by The Constitute.

Christian Zöllner
is coming from a product design background and is constantly moving towards interaction design, design research and design teaching. He worked in design studios in Paris and Vienna and has teached at the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel and HUST Wuhan in China. At the Design department of University of the Arts in Berlin he hosted projects on experimental product development for more than six years. 2014 he was invited guest professor for Design Fictions at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein in Halle where he holds a tenure track professorship for experimental design since 2018. Christians main fields of expertise are future foresight, experimental design strategies, design fiction and speculative art practices.

The Constitute works with international and local partners. The studio and it´s core team is rather small and is constituted upon project scale, complexity and duration. We constitute special forces for special tasks. Currenty we work to together with:

Jens Beyer
is a snowboarder. Beside that he is one of the most talented mechatronical engineers in the northern hemisphere. Additionally, he decided to become wizard in creative technology with a little help of his 2nd degree in IT & Design. He loves to create interfaces between those fields of engineering and design. Everything related with electronic hardware design, safety issues of complex installations we do with him. Furthermore he is pretty talented in teaching technology relationships within diverse workshop formats

Annett Löser
is coming from a product design background focusing on social innovation, sustainable processes and design research. She worked for design studios and non profit organizations in Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Monterrey (Mexico).
Annett is teaching design methods, sustainable product development at the University of Applied Science in Dresden and start-up culture at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus -Senftenberg. She gives workshop and lectures to different topics related to design and has beed several times reward for her work.

Julian Adenauer
is an mechatronical engineer. He loves to create creative machines. Together with Michael Haas he runs Sonice Development, a company that is focused on, yes, creating creative machines.

Moritz Simon Geist
builds musical robots and plays them live. His expertise in circuit layout, 3D printing and mechanical engineering is as much appreciated as his kind way of just being this great person he is.

Dominic Kiessling
works and lives as an artist concentrating on motion graphics, visual aesthetics and VJing. He is part of the design collective Pfadfinderei.

Fabmobil Crew
The Constitute runs a social non profit project that brings creative technologies to rural decentralised regions in East Germany. The Fabmobil would be nothing without it´s wonderful crew that is listed here

In the past we´ve been working with Anja Lapatsch, Annika Unger, Robert Albert, Achim Meyer, Armin Riedel, Alexander Jentsch, Jasmin Grimm, Wiebke Holtermann, Susa Pop, Thilo Hofmann, Tobias Fischer, Sascha Bruk, Pfadfinderei, Expologic, DJ Hell, Ronny Sandig, Thomas Voigt, Axel Kufus, Gesche Joost, Rachel Uwa, Christian Rauch, Raphaël de Courville, Alexander Müller, Habakuk Israel, Amelie Goldfuß, Robert Arnold, Hamza Abu Ayash, Sally Abu Bakr, Sharon Horodi, Jerszy Seymour, Nadia Pantel