Transmedial Space
- Faculty
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
- Version
Version 2 of 23.02.2026.
- Module identifier
11B1935
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German, English
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
only summer term
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
The creative examination of space as a place of interactive and media design (exhibition design, trade fair design, etc.) requires a profound understanding of space-creating parameters such as light, object and sound.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
- theoretical basics of spatial perception
- comparison of real and virtual space
- design basics of designing with light
- basic of the development of models, simulations and previsualizations of space
- theoretical basics of ergonomics and the social function of space.
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 15 Seminar Presence or online - 15 Practice Presence or online - 30 Laboratory activity Presence or online - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 30 Preparation/follow-up for course work - 40 Creation of examinations - 20 Reception of other media or sources -
- Graded examination
- Project Report, medial
- Ungraded exam
- Field work / Experimental work
- Remark on the assessment methods
The ungraded examination performance in the module is understood as the basis of the graded examination performance. The result is described in the project report and presented in a presentation.
- Exam duration and scope
Graded examination performance
- Project report: approx. 15 pages, illustrative, photographic, filmic representations
Ungraded examination performance
- Experimental work: approx. 3-month design work from the context of the course.
- Knowledge Broadening
Students are able to conceptualize and execute the staging of objects and artifacts in real and digital spaces, incorporating light and sound.
- Knowledge deepening
Students have basic spatial planning skills that they can apply theoretically and practically in the context of transmedial spatial design.
- Knowledge Understanding
Participants will be able to verbalize and visualize spatial concepts for the purpose of pre-visualization, simulation or staging and to supervise their production.
- Application and Transfer
Students are sensitized to the inclusion of ergonomic, social and psychological factors in the design of transmedial spaces.
- Academic Innovation
Students are able to design methods and procedures that are suitable for systematically working on and solving problems in spatial design practice.
- Communication and Cooperation
Students are able to present ideas, concepts and work results in writing and pictures as well as rhetorically differentiated and appropriate to the target group.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
They are able to do justice to the individual responsibility of creative workers through constant evaluation of individual creative action.
- Literature
Gerhard Meerwein: Farbe - Kommunikation im Raum, Birkhäuser, 2007
Virilio, Asscher, Kittler: Mehr Licht, Merve, 2008
Klanten et al.: Staging Space: Scenic Interiors and Spatial Experiences, Gestalten, 2010
Sellars et al.: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance, MIT Press, 2010
Lev Manovich: Black Box - White Cube, Merve, 2005
Elodie Ternaux: Material World 3: Innovative Materials for Architecture and Design, Frame Publishers, 2011
- Applicability in study programs
- Computer Science and Media Applications
- Computer Science and Media Applications B.Sc. (01.09.2025)
- Industrial Product Design
- Industrial Product Design B.A. (01.09.2024)
- Media & Interaction Design
- Media & Interaction Design B.A. (01.09.2024)
- Person responsible for the module
- Nehls, Johannes
- Teachers
- Nehls, Johannes