Gewand und Glaube is a knowledge portal thatgoes beyond conventional boundaries in the form of an interactive crossword puzzle. The project's main objective is to illuminate women's role in the world religions by examining how vital issues are interrelated within them. During a class on Visual Design - New Media, we developed an interface on the topic of the "Women's Role in World Religions", with the idea of broadly linking different access points or approaches and contexts was to be implemented both in content and in the visuals.

"Textiles" affect us directly! Clothes allow intimacy, define identity and become messages understood between people in their respective communities: Is a headscarf just a headscarf or is it a symbol? Is the form of a headscarf important, or the individual attitude or mindset with which it is worn? Is wearing a headscarf a ritual that is always understood immediately, no matter the situation? Is a headscarf still an expression of how men control and oppress women when a woman wears one voluntarily? Pupils know only too well: dress codes and prescribed changes to their bodies dominate and determine women. In their works and texts, the pupils clearly formulate that as (young) women a vast range of demands and expectations, as well as structures of power and ownership manifest themselves on their bodies, too.

Project team: Class 4B (32 pupils, 3 of whom were male; 29, female). Project coordinators: Tereza Szente (Computer-aided Visual Design), Prof. Georgine Lansky and Prof. Lucia Ashry (Religion). Class 4A, group 2—Textile Design Workshop. Project coordinator: Anja Westerfrölke.