International Design Center Berlin

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Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin e. V.
(IDZ)
purpose "Promotion of good design"
Chair: Karsten Henze, Pelin Celik
Establishment date: December 10, 1968
Seat : Berlin
Website: http://www.idz.de

The International Design Center Berlin e. V. (IDZ) is one of the oldest design centers in Germany. With projects, research assignments and events, the IDZ forms an interface between design and business with the aim of researching, publishing and promoting theoretical and practical aspects of design on a national and international level.

history

At the end of the 1960s, Berlin's business community suggested founding a circle in which international forces from business, culture and science should meet in order to create a forum for the promotion of good design. Initiated by the design group of the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI) and sponsored by the then Minister of Economics, Karl Schiller , personalities from culture, business and politics agreed in 1968 on an association's statutes in which the influence of the public and consumers was laid down.

On December 10, 1968 the association Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin eV was founded; On April 17, 1970, the IDZ Berlin was opened in Budapester Strasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg . The opening exhibitions were dedicated to the topics "Design - Environment is being questioned" and "Design - Producers evaluate their product". In 1975 the decision was made to move to Ansbacher Strasse, where the premises offered better conditions for the content of the work. The new rooms offered more space for permanent services for those interested in design (documentation, advice, seminars).

Ettore Sottsass and Fritz Bornemann took on the design for the expansion of the center , who visualized the idea of ​​a design workshop in their architectural concept. After a four-year stopover in Wielandstrasse, the IDZ moved again in 1988: On Kurfürstendamm there was enough space available for smaller exhibitions, seminars and consultations, and the IDZ library, which was closed in the meantime, was again made accessible to the public. For ten years, the address Kurfürstendamm 66 in City West was a contact point for visitors interested in design.

After the IDZ had received institutional funding from the Senate Department for Economic Affairs since its foundation, public funding was discontinued in 1997. This was taken as the occasion for a new start at a new location in the eastern part of the now reunited Berlin. The IDZ continued its work in the restored historical buildings of the former Narva factory in Berlin-Friedrichshain . Since August 1st, 2005, the IDZ has been located at Reinhardtstrasse 52 in Berlin-Mitte, diagonally across from the Federal Press Conference .

In March 2012, the IDZ moved to the “New Stage” proclaimed by the Senate Department for Urban Development in the former Tempelhof Central Airport. From 2017 to 2019 it resided at Potsdamer Platz. Since October 2019 it has been located at Hagelberger Strasse 52 in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

activities

The IDZ is a design-oriented platform for the exchange of ideas and networking as well as a consulting and mediation center for design in the capital Berlin. In 40 years, over 500 public events, exhibitions, conferences, seminars, workshops and projects have been carried out and numerous publications have been issued. Among other things, the IDZ is the organizer of the German Design Conference and is currently dealing in several exhibitions and publications with future design topics such as universal design or design for everyone as well as sustainable design and design management .

The IDZ organizes the Federal Ecodesign Award, launched in 2012 by the German Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) . Launched in 2008 as an exhibition for good usability, the IDZ has been honoring excellently designed user experiences with the UX Design Awards since 2015 .

structure

As an association, the IDZ consists of an operational team, the board of directors and association members from the various areas of the creative industries , science and business (individual and company memberships).

Former board members (selection)

Former managing directors, technical managers (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berliner Forum # 2/1980 , Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin
  2. ↑ IDZ Berlin: "The competition but also the social responsibility have increased in this city". Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ IDZ: IDZ. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ BMFSJ (Ed.): Opening of the exhibition “Universal Design: Shaping Our Future”,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Date: November 13, 2008, last accessed: November 27, 2008)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bmfsfj.de  
  5. ↑ Hase, H. et al. (Ed.): Design Management . Volume 1–3, University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Business Berlin, Berlin 2006 and 2007, ISBN 3-00-020551-9 , ISBN 978-3-9811519-0-9 , ISBN 978-3-9811519-1-6
  6. ↑ About us. In: UX Design Awards. Retrieved February 2, 2020 (German).