Nonny de la Pena is considered the Godmother of Virtual Reality. Immersive journalism, as she calls it, is the combination of virtual reality and classical journalism. With her team, she creates Immersive Journalism, where, for example crime scenes, theaters or places of human tragedy are recreated in 3D. Using virtual reality headgear such as the Oculus Rift, it enables the viewer to experience the events as if they were really there in real life. De la Pena feels that the new technology will change the face of journalism because no other medium hast he ability to instill such a feeling of empathy from it’s viewers. De la Pena is a graduate of Harvard University and is currently at the University of Southern California. She also writes for the News York Times, Time Magazine and Newsweek Magazine.
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Nonny de la Pena
Immersive Journalism
Nonny de la Pena is considered the Godmother of Virtual Reality. Immersive journalism, as she calls it, is the combination of virtual reality and classical journalism. With her team, she creates Immersive Journalism, where, for example crime scenes, theaters or places of human tragedy are recreated in 3D. Using virtual reality headgear such as the Oculus Rift, it enables the viewer to experience the events as if they were really there in real life. De la Pena feels that the new technology will change the face of journalism because no other medium hast he ability to instill such a feeling of empathy from it’s viewers. De la Pena is a graduate of Harvard University and is currently at the University of Southern California. She also writes for the News York Times, Time Magazine and Newsweek Magazine.
Erik Kessels
KesselsKramer
Erik Kessels is the co-founder and creative director of KesselsKramer, a communications agency that exhibits a portfolio of classic advertising, publication and documentary.
An avid collector of photographic works, Erik Kessels has curated multiple exhibitions. His work titled “Unfinished Father” was recently nominated for the 2016 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. He has also been the Editor of the magazine “Useful Photography” since 2000.
Together with his agency, Kessels promotes the philosophy that brands should not be represented only in traditional media, but instead in the form that best suits their messages.
Erik Kessels
KesselsKramer
Erik Kessels is the co-founder and creative director of KesselsKramer, a communications agency that exhibits a portfolio of classic advertising, publication and documentary.
An avid collector of photographic works, Erik Kessels has curated multiple exhibitions. His work titled “Unfinished Father” was recently nominated for the 2016 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. He has also been the Editor of the magazine “Useful Photography” since 2000.
Together with his agency, Kessels promotes the philosophy that brands should not be represented only in traditional media, but instead in the form that best suits their messages.
Fons Hickmann
Designer & Typographer
Fons Hickmann is as versatile as his work is. He studied Photography, Communication Design, Aesthetics and Media Theory and established the Designstudio Fons Hickmann m23 in 2001. Winning over 200 international awards, m23 has become one of the world’s most renowned design agencies.
Apart from working as a designer, Hickmann is a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and has also been the editor of various publications such as “Das Beste Spiel aller Zeiten“ (The best game of all time).
His work ethic:
Aesthetics should be considered from a philosophical angle, communication from the position of social context, and design with experimental vision.
Fons Hickmann
Designer & Typographer
Fons Hickmann is as versatile as his work is. He studied Photography, Communication Design, Aesthetics and Media Theory and established the Designstudio Fons Hickmann m23 in 2001. Winning over 200 international awards, m23 has become one of the world’s most renowned design agencies.
Apart from working as a designer, Hickmann is a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and has also been the editor of various publications such as “Das Beste Spiel aller Zeiten“ (The best game of all time).
His work ethic:
Aesthetics should be considered from a philosophical angle, communication from the position of social context, and design with experimental vision.
Greg Barth
Designer, artist and director
Greg Barth is a multi-dimensional creative talent – a designer, artist and director. His passion for out-of-the-ordinary, often surreal concepts and almost naïve, minimalistic aesthetics, have helped him achieve international fame.
Conservative design often seems more user-friendly, and yet he embraces the experimental, and triumphs. With his playful art of filmmaking, he has been able to build a distinguished client base.
Very few creative artists are able to bring together design and functionality like Greg Barth does.
Greg Barth
Designer, artist and director
Greg Barth is a multi-dimensional creative talent – a designer, artist and director. His passion for out-of-the-ordinary, often surreal concepts and almost naïve, minimalistic aesthetics, have helped him achieve international fame.
Conservative design often seems more user-friendly, and yet he embraces the experimental, and triumphs. With his playful art of filmmaking, he has been able to build a distinguished client base.
Very few creative artists are able to bring together design and functionality like Greg Barth does.
Aral Balkan
Designer and Social Entrepreneur
Aral is a designer, coder, and human rights activist. He is the founder and lead designer of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise that uses Ethical Design to create everyday things that respect human rights, effort, and experience. “Our lives are a string of experiences. Experiences with people and experiences with things. As designers – as the people who craft experiences - we have a profound responsibility to make every experience as beautiful, as comfortable, as painless, as empowering, and as delightful as possible.”
Aral Balkan
Designer and Social Entrepreneur
Aral is a designer, coder, and human rights activist. He is the founder and lead designer of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise that uses Ethical Design to create everyday things that respect human rights, effort, and experience. “Our lives are a string of experiences. Experiences with people and experiences with things. As designers – as the people who craft experiences - we have a profound responsibility to make every experience as beautiful, as comfortable, as painless, as empowering, and as delightful as possible.”
Cesare Peeren
Superuse Studios Rotterdam
Superuse Studios was founded in 1997 by Césare Peeren and Jan Jongert and has become a pioneer in the field of sustainable design. The firm is renowned nationally and internationally for its innovative design approach as well as for providing ‘open source’ methods and tools to the design community. All with the aim to make effective use of frequently wasted resources and energy.
Superuse studios researches, designs, builds innovative products, interiors and buildings and develops strategies for smart urban transformations. In detail: Nature is a cyclical and dynamic system, typified by diversity and ever-changing interconnections. Generally processes grow and shrink, but diversity is always maintained.
Cesare Peeren
Superuse Studios Rotterdam
Superuse Studios was founded in 1997 by Césare Peeren and Jan Jongert and has become a pioneer in the field of sustainable design. The firm is renowned nationally and internationally for its innovative design approach as well as for providing ‘open source’ methods and tools to the design community. All with the aim to make effective use of frequently wasted resources and energy.
Superuse studios researches, designs, builds innovative products, interiors and buildings and develops strategies for smart urban transformations. In detail: Nature is a cyclical and dynamic system, typified by diversity and ever-changing interconnections. Generally processes grow and shrink, but diversity is always maintained.
Cesy Leonard
Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (Center for Political Beauty)
The Center for Political Beauty is an assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism. The group’s basic understanding is that the legacy of the Holocaust is rendered void by political apathy, the rejection of refugees and cowardice. It believes that Germany should not only learn from its History but also take action. For several years now, the Center has engaged in a parallel (more beautiful) German approach to foreign politics that uses humanity as a weapon.
The Center for Political Beauty engages in the most innovative forms of political performance art- an expanded approach to theatre: art must hurt provoke and rise in revolt. In one basic alliance of terms: aggressive humanism.
Cesy Leonard
Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (Center for Political Beauty)
The Center for Political Beauty is an assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism. The group’s basic understanding is that the legacy of the Holocaust is rendered void by political apathy, the rejection of refugees and cowardice. It believes that Germany should not only learn from its History but also take action. For several years now, the Center has engaged in a parallel (more beautiful) German approach to foreign politics that uses humanity as a weapon.
The Center for Political Beauty engages in the most innovative forms of political performance art- an expanded approach to theatre: art must hurt provoke and rise in revolt. In one basic alliance of terms: aggressive humanism.
