Summer Academy

This semester we were very lucky to welcome Prof. Dr. Nam-Kyu Park from the University of Florida to Detmold for a week. She got to know the conditions and possibilities of our light laboratory in detail and gave professional input in our project seminar “Beautiful Rubbish”, in which light art installations are created on the subject of environmental and light pollution. However, she was not only introduced to the light lab but also to the entire KreativCampus during an intensive tour. This naturally also included our Media Production department with its major focus on lighting technology and equipment. A city tour through Detmold's old town with a short detour to the beautiful farmers market was of course also a must for the cultural insight. 

In addition to Detmold, we also traveled together to Eindhoven to marvel at the Glow Light Festival, an international light art event. Together with 28 students, we had plenty of time to admire the exhibits and take away our own inspiration from our visit. The following day, we visited the architecturally valuable Van Abbemuseum to draw conclusions from the comparison between outdoor and indoor exhibitions from a lighting design perspective. 

The entire light team was very keen to make Prof. Dr. Nam-Kyu Park's stay in Detmold as pleasant, eventful and instructive as possible. As a result, we have now laid a good foundation for future cooperation, which will strengthen the Detmold-Florida relationship. We are very grateful for the exchange and look forward to all future projects! 

Under the direction of Prof. Mary-Anne Kyriakou, Valerie Meyer and Tabea Wetzel, students from the University of Florida have written two scientific papers on the topic of “visual tempo” over the past two years as part of the DAAD exchange program. An eye tracking study was carried out as the basis for the research. The necessary equipment was kindly provided by the Institute for Design Strategies (IDS). The objects examined are the creative works of the Detmold interior design students from the basic module “Lighting Design 1” and were provided by the lighting laboratory. The results of the study will be published in 2025. 

This year's Detmold Summer Academy program included visits to the most important Detmold sights such as the Hermann Monument, the open-air museum and the historic buildings in Detmold city centre. On a guided tour, they got to know the old and new architecture as well as the cultural heritage of the city, visited the farmers' market and the Junkerhaus in Lemgo. On other day trips, they also visited the cities of Bielefeld, Cologne, Berlin and Potsdam as well as the Bauhaus in Dessau. It is fair to say that the students experienced a variety of cultural highlights in a short space of time, often with a professional connection to interior architecture, in different regions of our country. 

The program ran under the direction of Prof. Mary-Anne Kyriakou together with Sandra Bomholt, Valerie Meyer, Ronja Gräber and Karina Schulte.

The Detmold Summer Academy 2023 has been successfully completed! We visited the most important sights in Detmold and the surrounding area such as the Hermann Monument, the open-air museum, the Strate private brewery and the MARTa Herford. We have also seen many culturally important and interior design relevant places throughout Germany like Lüdenscheid, Cologne and Unna. This intensive time was rounded off with an excursion to the German capital, where the students were able to get to know both the artistic and cultural side espacially of Berlin but also of Potsdam and Dessau. 

The program ran under the direction of Prof. Mary-Anne Kyriakou together with Sandra Bomholt, Tabea Wetzel, Valerie Meyer and Sophia Tölle.

Prof. Mary-Anne Kyriakou, head of the “Lighting Design and Light Architecture” department, project manager of ISAP and coordinator of the partnership with UF, traveled to Florida at the beginning of April 2023 together with Sandra Bomholt, research assistant for international affairs at the Detmold School.

During their stay, in addition to the presentation of the Detmold School and the planned summer school program, several conversations with colleagues at UF and two workshops were held.