Portrait of Professor Krzywinski
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Krzywinski has headed the Chair of Industrial Design Engineering Engineering since April 2019. From September 2012 to August 2018, he held the Junior Professorship of Technical Design. He also serves as a juror for various design awards and is active on advisory boards, including for arthistoricum.net, the specialist information service for art, photography and design and the industry association of Dresden's cultural and creative industries, WGD. In 2013, he won the prize for innovation in teaching at the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering. He was born in Dresden in 1977.
Without technical design ... our urban environment would be empty and we would neither ride bicycles nor think about autonomous driving, neither dig holes nor direct digital construction sites, neither mow lawns nor let autonomous agricultural systems swarm out. Design influences our evaluation as well as our daily actions, no matter how unconsciously we perceive it. This makes it all the more important to align technology with actual use and specific needs at an early stage and to consciously shape the corresponding experience. Design takes a holistic view of products. In technical design, we have the opportunity, thanks to our expertise, to take a much earlier and deeper technical approach in order to develop convincing products that transcend disciplinary boundaries.
Being a professor... means having the privilege of being able to invest more time than others for inquisitive observation and critical questioning - combined with the opportunity to get to the bottom of the problems found together with many partners and as sustainably as possible.
Students ... need not only professional input but also support in discovering their own potential and working towards apparent limits. The best of them will clearly exceed their own limits and those of the discipline and learn to make ambitious and insightful mistakes in the process. As teachers, we can provide advice and support along the way.
In the future ... individual products will become much more complex product systems and the mere use of products will increasingly become cooperation with the product - virtuality and reality will continue to grow together and complement each other in many ways. Aligning this complicated network of future product environments with people and their experience requires an intensive understanding of design with in-house design expertise from the concept to the series product and at the same time a high level of understanding of interfaces in almost all other scientific fields.
If I could study again ... I would make the same choice for Technical Design again, but this time I would choose it deliberately instead of by chance and with a strong international focus.
Excellence ... is a unique opportunity to contribute to a new and contemporary shaping of a socially relevant university. This applies on both a large and a small scale, at the much-vaunted intersections of detached buildings of thought as well as in the basement of one's own subject.