Keynote speech at the Polis Convention 2024
The Polis Convention is Germany’s leading trade fair for urban and project development. Once a year, cities and municipalities, the national property industry, project developers, business promoters, investors, architects, planners, designers and many more meet …
More energy and colour for Aachen’s Mefferdatisstrasse
With creative interventions, we want to generate more impact and pull! Last summer, together with over 50 Meffis, we created a huge work of street art in Mefferdatisstraße in Aachen. Using liquid chalk, we temporarily …
Up-Cycling-Workshop at German Cultural Centre in Lahore Pakistan
In collaboration with the Annemarie Schimmelhaus Lahore, I had the honour of leading a creative workshop for students from various universities. The result is a series of upcycled furniture for public spaces made from waste …
meffi.s – a socio cultural center in 4 vacant buildings
Since 2019, we have been working with many city makers and creatives to breathe new life into the former vacant spaces in Mefferdatisstrasse in Aachen. During this process, I developed a transformative interior design concept …
The designmonth Graz 2023 takes a look at the topic REVOLUTION. In what way can and should design influence revolutionary processes? What do designers have to do with it? A look at the activist and …
The creative.projects jury has met!
The creative.projects jury has met! From almost 100 creative submissions we have selected the 5 best winning projects yesterday in Cologne at Creative.NRW! It was really exciting and really not an easy decision… but more …
CIRCLES OF LOVE Artist-in-Residence Semester in Lahore, Pakistan
A documentation about the Artist-in-Residency period at the National College of Arts Lahore of multidisciplinary artist and designer Patricia Yasmine Graf from Germany. March – June 2022 We are living in challenging times with many perplexing concerns be …
MACH MAL PLATZ – more quality of stay for Aachen
“Neighborhood is not a place; it is an attitude” (David Sim, Soft City, 2019). The intellectual guideline for the joint design project of the Chair and Institute of Urban Design at RWTH Aachen University and …
PYG at Start-up Podcast – Episode 37
The new episode of the founder flow start-up podcast with Patricia Yasmine Graf is online! What exactly is behind the designmetropole aachen and what Patricia has to report from her time in the scene, you …