“How are new strategies made manifest in the day-to-day business of a company? Design, branding and communications are what create this link. Because seeing is understanding and a unique visual impression is a must if a company is to achieve a truly distinctive market position.”
Projects
Katrin Androschin, co-founder and managing partner of Embassy, is an expert in corporate identity, corporate design and brand management. She offers consultancy on marketing strategy issues, develops new brands and conceives and runs workshops on change management processes within companies. Her current projects include the brand campaign for Berlin (‘Be Berlin’), brand consultancy for the German Cancer Research Center (dkfz) and the state of Tyrol, as well as corporate design projects for Veolia and Visit Berlin.
Teaching
Katrin Androschin has been teaching for 14 years. Since 2016 she is a professor at the design akademie Berlin, where she leads the International Master Course “Strategic Design”. She has taught as a professor at the Dresden University of Applied Sciences, at the BTK University of Applied Sciences Berlin and, from 2002 to 2008, at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. She supervised Graphic Design Master students at the Berlin Campus of the German University in Cairo in 2014 and 2016. Her teaching focus is the link between theory and practice in project-oriented teaching.
Examples of teaching projects
Peer to Peer: Facebook Global Digital Challenge Fall 2017, Counterspeech-Campaign, finalist of the competition with the campaign Don’t be silent Berlin
GWA Junior Agency Award, Cooperation project of Dresden University of Applied Sciences, Jena University and Advertising Agency “Heimat” Berlin. > more, website Dresden University of Applied Sciences
Corporate Design and Festival-Trailer for the “European Short Film Festival” of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) > more
Digital signage project in collaboration with Wall AG – Wall AG digital brandscaping
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, International guest tutor 2009/2010
Consultant for the state design education program in Latvia 2008 dizaina informācijas centrs
Johannes Gögele’s award-winning diploma thesis on the Check and Ride avalanche tool, produced by Ortovox, supervised by Prof. Katrin Androschin, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano – youtube
Snow Safety Design: “Ästhetisch sicher auf Pisten” (Aesthetic safety on the piste, PDF), project description (PDF)
Engagement
Jury member of the programme “impulse” of Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) for the Creative Industries in Austria, 2005, 2012 – today
Member of the advisory board of Evangelisches Johannesstift Berlin
Board member of Schlau e.V., a non-profit association fostering education for children in Berlin
University Links
design akademie berlin
Fachhochschule Dresden, University of Applied Sciences
German University in Cairo, Berlin Campus
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Estonian Academy of Arts, Guest lecturer
Istituto Superiore di Design Napoli, Guest lecturer
Memberships
Katrin Androschin is speaker at Women Speaker Foundation
Speeches and Presentations
Moderation of the Panel Discussion Sustainability in design. Embassy of Austria in Berlin 2016 more
Panel Discussion Country of Origin Strategies in Marketing: Swissness and Germany as a Brand – Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin 2015
Speech on How to involve target groups emotionally. ERHT European Route of Historic Theatres Conference, Warsaw2015 more
Panel Discussion From A to B – What do cities look like? Dutch Embassy Berlin 04/2015 more
Lecture Branding, Everywhere? Do Destinations need Brands? at Weissraum, Forum for Visual Communication, Innsbruck 11/2014 more
Lecture on Image Campaigns at TheoLab Berlin Symposium”Theologie der Stadt” 09/2014 more
Hamburg Marketing Day 2013, Lecture and Workshops
“Brand ambassadors – The role of people in brand communication”
Design Talks Lecture Branding Cities and Destinations, German University in Cairo – GUC Berlin Campus 04/2013 more
Inspiration Lecture for the Communicators of Malmö University, Berlin 2012
Arguments for an Austrian Design Policy, at European Design Business Dialogue 2012, Vienna 2012
Speech on Employer branding and corporate history
Berliner Expertengespräch 2011, “Lateral thinking as a business strategy” Weberbank Berlin villa, organised by E&E Consultants more
‘Branding for Bandung as Creative City’: workshop and seminar
Bandung – Indonesia, July 6-10, 2009, Goethe Institut Bandung & ITB Bandung more (indonesian)
‘Branding in the 21st Century’ workshop
Euprio Conference, Aveiro, Portugal 2009
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
Conference Vai dizainam būt Latvijā?
(Should Design be in Latvia?), Riga 2008
Bauhaus Dessau presentation
http://dimensions-of.design.hs-anhalt.de
Volvo Ispo Sportsdesign Forum 2007
Speech and workshop Default conference, Vienna, 2007 – Keynote speech
Face to Face 2006 design conference
Austria – Germany – Speech
Typo Berlin 2005 „Change“ conference – Speech
Publication and Press
“Welcome to the real World”, Article for GUC Publication “designspecies” more
Dresden University of Applied Sciences has appointed Katrin Androschin as Professor more
TV-Interview „Berlin – Arm, aber sexy” ORF-Weltjournal, 14.9. 2011
Austria’s Presse am Sonntag newspaper visits expat Austrians in their new countries of residence, Presse am Sonntag, June 21, 2009
Latvian Design Education Dizaina Studija
Brand Berlin Press review – Be Berlin
Tradition kommunizieren (Communicating Tradition)
Book chapter on historical communications more
Interview on branding
Typeradio podcast
Storytelling in design – Designers tell stories (PDF)
Snow safety design – Cool appeal to boarders (PDF)
2018
Katrin Androschin and students of the design akademie Berlin win the »Peer to Peer: Facebook Global Digital Challenge« in Washington DC with their campaign against hatespeech
2018
Essay »Andere / Selbst – Von Berlin über Oran nach Venedig und zurück« von Katrin Androschin (et al) in Publikation des Kunst- und Forschungsprojekts »Fremd und Fremdheit« erschienen.