something.beyond

Humans are a complex species – we are [still] physical beings but can experience the immaterial. We have the capacity to imagine more than we can create, but fully realize our existence through haptic and sensorial interactions. Pforzheim University graduates go beyond, exploring material and human interactions to understand who we are but also where we might be going – dealing with the humanly inherent and direct, the tangible and intangible and explore what this means and could mean through experiments, material approaches, trials and suggestions. Three of our design programs present with something.beyond graduate work that exists at the intersection of what it means to be human. 

MA Jewellery artists push the boundaries of jewellery definitions, inviting us to experience material as form in relation the body and the space around us. BA Jewellery graduation projects explore our relationships to the body through material and form, giving insights to jewellery within a larger context. MA Design & Future Making presents graduation and semester projects dealing with the intersection of the human, the analog and the digital, playfully exploring how human interaction amplifies our relation to each other, technology and social impact.

Featured projects:

MA in Jewellery
Julian Graeve
Fahimeh Hassani
Yanina Kremer
Yasu Okamura
Jeain Pyo
Rayka Sobhani
Olga Struck
Ayla Tur

BA in Jewellery
Florian Anderer
Christina Bucherer
Kiki Czerner
John Kurz
Melanie Pernkopf
Franziska Reich

MA in Design & Future Making
Felis Ferch + Katharina Wittemann
Maria Jensen
Tao Zhang
 

Dutch Design Week 26
something.beyond
Schellens Fabriek, Bleekweg 1, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
https://ddw.nl/en/programme/somethingbeyond
Oct 17th - 25th, 2026
11 am – 6 pm