A designlab to shape fluid mobility.
A designlab to shape
fluid mobility.
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The CAPTN designlab designs the technological environment of human beings. Artificial intelligence represents the technical zeitgeist. AI designs and AI demands design.
We create for people in the interplay of design and AI.

Mobility on the water is facing a major transformation. All over the world, people are working hard on solutions for autonomous and clean passenger shipping. Drives are becoming highly efficient and climate-neutral, ship systems are learning, are networked; they inform and communicate.

We are talking about a focus on software, about the emergence of new information systems, interfaces and infrastructures. Climate neutrality, autonomy and information networks are direction changers, which require new skills in the conception and design of ships and information architecture and point to great market potential.

The CAPTN designlab offers expertise in the conception and design of the new generation of networked, intelligent and safe mobility on the water. As a strategic partner, it offers support in the planning and implementation of modern mobility and the associated information systems in the interweaving of design, system and AI. It develops concrete visions and innovative concepts with regards to technology and design taking into account the specific application contexts with the aim of establishing the new generation of smart mobility systems as an outstanding quality of shared mobility.

Dirk Nowotka

Dirk Nowotka studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Dresden, received his doctorate with distinction from the University of Turku, Finland and completed his post-doctoral thesis (habilitation) at the University of Stuttgart. He has also worked at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Dirk Nowotka has received several awards for outstanding scientific achievements and has extensive project experience with industrial partners, from medium-sized companies to large corporations.

He was appointed DFG Heisenberg Professor at Kiel University in 2011 and has worked at its Institute of Computer Science ever since.

Detlef Rhein

Detlef Rhein studied Industrial Design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the State University of California, San Jose. He has worked as a designer at wiege GmbH and in the Netherlands at ninaber/peters/krouwel, headed the Hamburg branch of npk design and founded the design office Garthoff Rhein.

Detlef Rhein has 30 years of experience in managing complex development projects from innovation management to series parts, from public spaces to implants and has received numerous national and international awards for his designs.

Since 2009 he has been a professor for system and future-oriented design at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel.

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