Many years clocked, many miles driven resulting in scores of graduated, talented designers coming from this school in Ravensburg, Germany. My teaching career included conceptual thinking projects, foundations of visual communication and supporting last year students in their diploma projects. The school technically closed but is now rebranded as the “Kapuziner Kreativzentrum”. They are doing amazing things including – as if they had seen it coming – online webinars.

The posed question: is the solution to the spooky world of AI human innovation, creativity, resilience and flexibility? One  familiar slogan for creatives of all stripes rings out now more than ever: “Think out of the box.” What better project could there be for design students than to reflect about what the box is, exactly? Where is the outside? How far from the box could / should one get? Who and what’s left inside and can we think from the outside for the inside? Is the inside so bad? And so on. A challenge with a number of astounding results.