bachelor thesis
2025
Poetic Intervention
https://poeticintervention.net/
›Poetic Intervention‹ is a web anthology and bachelor thesis that explores the poetic potential of graphic design and code. While the design and programming of websites is often geared towards a universal, frictionless and profit-orientated experience, poetry dares to be personal, unconventional and non-functional. This project uses ideas of poetry to play with the aesthetic qualities of language and breaks free from the conventions of how a website should look and work.
Concrete and visual poetry have been a big influence on this project. Since antiquity people have been experimenting with the shape of text, further developing around the 20th century, where most of the inspiration for my poetic works comes from. Each poetic experiment which makes up this web anthology is a direct or indirect reference to works of visual poets while also learning from alternative ideas about the web from contemporary graphic designers.
Through the medium of the web these poetic works are confronted with new possibilities of interaction, ephemerality and randomness that haven’t been possible in their static analog form. At the same time poetry opens up an interdisciplinary and more experimental view on graphic design and programming. Treating a website like a poem makes you think about it in a more open and creative way. It helps shape a place where visitors can themselves get creative and feel welcomed to interact and self-reflect.
Exhibited at ›Call Me #8‹, an exhibition for communication design graduates at HAW Hamburg. The exhibition was held place at ›Jupiter‹ in Hamburg, Germany from the 24th to 27th of April 2025. This thesis was kindly supervised by Prof. Heike Grebin and Simon Thiefes at HAW Hamburg.
