Change, redesign, progress: topics that are of enormous importance in Münsterland. Because a company's or business's ability to innovate determines its future - and this has long since reached the companies and employees in Münsterland.
They see social changes such as the digital transformation as an opportunity for improvement. Innovations are often driven by the management and developed together with the customer based on the specific problem or need.
In doing so, they recognise the opportunities of digitalisation and implement them - for new products and business models, for opening up new markets, for more efficiency in work processes and for more varied and interesting fields of work.
You can find some exciting examples of this innovative power in our Innovation Stories. In them, companies report on their successes through new developments - which have often come about through cooperation with other players in Münsterland.
How can technological developments be recognised and used more quickly and comprehensively in Münsterland? This question is becoming increasingly important, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. To make this search for new technologies as simple and cost-saving as possible, it makes sense to involve regional experts and quickly exchange information on these topics.
The Enabling Networks Münsterland project has developed various measures in the field of technology scouting to support you in your search for new technologies. This creates special technology knowledge that companies, research institutions and competence centres can use to work even better. Take advantage of this expertise and find out more about technology scouting in Münsterland.
Would you like to know in which areas the Münsterland is particularly active? Then click through the innovation competence fields. You can find out more about innovation in our FAQs.
Münsterland is not only innovative, but also a region of the future. For example, companies from future-oriented sectors such as IT and mechanical engineering are strongly represented here.
Innovations are the engine of our economy. Without them, there is no progress. That is why innovative achievements deserve special attention, appreciation and support. The Münsterland Innovation Award has been presented every two years to companies, universities and institutions in Münsterland since 1993. Novel developments that convince through their sustainability, simplify and accelerate processes in industry or advance digitalisation have enthused both the jury and the public in recent years. Find out here which inspiring innovations have won the competition so far.
But companies, universities and institutions are also in constant exchange in their everyday work and exchange ideas with each other in networks or at events such as the Innovation Forum.
Under the title "SEARCHING PERFECT SHAPES", the two artists Beate Gärtner and Michelle Adolfs invite you to a special exhibition from 2.45 p.m. that opens up new aesthetic spaces by means of virtual reality and augmented reality. Throughout the Klosterpark, 3D sculptures can be experienced digitally, entering into a new relationship with architectural features and the natural space. Using a smartphone or tablet, the artworks can be brought onto the screen, superimposed on the live camera image. The result is a game with visual axes and concrete forms that open up an expanded world in motion. The artists sound out digital in-between worlds and show a creative rethinking of sculpture - weightless and interactive.
The project "MyVR_Planet.DA" - part of this year's KunstKommunikation project scholarship - finds its first work conclusion here. The basic principle is a reduction with an abstract language of forms; they are small interventions in our field of vision - everyone controls their own experience. The artists have worked with the works in the tradition of Heinrich Neuy's Bauhaus. In autumn, another exhibition will follow at the Heinrich Neuy Bauhaus Museum in Borghorst, where the digital objects can be experienced haptically with the help of 3D printing.
Since 2018, the Draiflessen Collection has owned the "Stichting Ariadne's Naaikussen". This collection of almost 2,000 historical needlework and sewing utensils, a collection of textile samples and a specialist library was assembled over several decades by Clementine Kuttschrütter, née Brenninkmeijer. The treasures date predominantly from the 18th and 19th centuries and are artistically crafted from precious materials. In addition to items still in use today such as needles, scissors, thimbles or elaborate sewing boxes, they also include such items as yarn balls, sewing clamps or shuttles for frivolity work, whose practical significance and aesthetics we can experience anew.
The first presentation of "Ariadne's Naaikussen" in the rooms of the Draiflessen Collection introduces highlights and marks the start of the scholarly treatment of this outstanding collection. It is also a tribute to the passionate collector, who would have turned 90 this year.
Jeden ersten Donnerstag im Monat 11−21 Uhr
Geöffnet: 26.12.2023
(2. Weihnachtstag), 01.04.2024 (Ostermontag)
Geschlossen: 24. und 25.12.2023 (Heiligabend und 1. Weihnachtstag),
31.12.2023 (Silvester), 01.01.2024 (Neujahr), 29.03.2024 (Karfreitag), 31.03.2024
(Ostersonntag)
Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.
The advent of printmaking in the 15th century revolutionised the dissemination of images. Whereas earlier, for example, altarpieces and paintings were only accessible to a select audience, the new media of woodcut and copperplate engraving suddenly made it possible to produce images relatively quickly, cheaply and in large editions.
The exhibition shows how printmaking, with its special narrative form, helped to make images and the stories they contained accessible to a wider public. At the same time, the motifs and depictions were increasingly devoted to profane themes, although the artists and art of the time were still strongly influenced by religion. What purpose did these secular images serve, what zeitgeist did they reflect and how did the artists manage to convey not only an image but also a message to the contemporary viewer on just a few square centimetres of paper? However, while the viewers of the time understood all the hints in the pictorial language very well, this knowing seeing is often lacking today.
STORYTELLING therefore invites visitors to (re)discover the answers to these questions.
Jeden ersten Donnerstag im Monat 11−21 Uhr
Geöffnet: 26.12.2023
(2. Weihnachtstag), 01.04.2024 (Ostermontag)
Geschlossen: 24. und 25.12.2023 (Heiligabend und 1. Weihnachtstag),
31.12.2023 (Silvester), 01.01.2024 (Neujahr), 29.03.2024 (Karfreitag), 31.03.2024
(Ostersonntag)
Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.
Together with TAFH Münster GmbH, the central innovation promotion and project development company of Münster University of Applied Sciences, WESt would like to give interested female entrepreneurs the opportunity to find out more about the university as a cooperation partner for regional companies and to make initial contacts with female professors and other members of the university.
The topics covered include the following:
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