The nationwide initiative German Design Graduates makes outstanding final projects from German design education visible. It accompanies graduates into the profession and connects them with players from business and culture. German Design Graduates is part of the German Design Council Foundation.
For the exhibition in „Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum“, around 70 projects from 28 German universities were selected. On show is a curation of product and industrial design, communication and digital design, as well as textile and fashion design. In their diversity, the works reveal essential questions of the present – and depict methods with which a new generation of designers searches for answers. How can residual materials become new materials? How can digital technologies be used meaningfully? How can design convey knowledge, enable social participation, or devise new forms of living together? The curatorial narrative Make It Make Sense originates from internet culture. The expression is used when explanations no longer work, contradictions become visible, or a situation calls for a new interpretation.