I like to think about, relate to, and design for the unknown.
Currently I work as a:
// Visiting Professor for Creative Entrepreneurship at the Berlin University of the Arts. Get in touch if you want to build bridges between academia, industry, culture, politics and society in general.
// Founder and Managing Director at the Brand Strategy Shop 25A0 GmbH. Get in touch if you want to design strategic moves with tangible business results.
// Director Strategy at the Design Consultancy S-T-A-T-E GmbH. Get in touch if you want to cultivate and amplify brands that make sense, shape attitudes and define communications.
// Founder and Editor-in-chief of the Interface Critique platform, containing an open access journal and book series. Get in touch if you are interested in the conditions and contingencies of apparatuses and applications.
// Expert in the SOC panel at the European Commission Research Executive Agency. Don't get in touch.
Selected Awards:
Bitkom Innovators Pitch 2008, Webby Jury + People's Choice 2009, Lead 2010, ADC 2014
BOOKS
»Eine stilistisch und sprachlich glänzend geschriebene Studie, wo Form und gedankliche Durchdringung sich kongenial ergänzen.«
Prof. Dr. Thomas Düllo, Universität der Künste Berlin
»Ein beeindruckender und riskanter Versuch, auch mit nicht-textlichen Mitteln wertvolle Erkenntnisse zu generieren.«
Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Siegfried Zielinski, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Welche verbindenden und entkoppelnden Denkzugriffe auf Gesellschaft und Kultur ermöglicht das Geheime? Was sind mögliche Korrespondenzen und Beziehungen zwischen Kriminalität, Höflichkeit und Geschmack, zwischen Beichte, Detektiv und Freimaurerei, zwischen Kabbala, Hermetismus und negativer Theologie, zwischen dem Konzept des Unbewussten, der Idee des Uneigentlichen, der Ökonomie des Einhorns und monochromatischer Malerei?
In der Verschränkung lebensweltlicher und theoretischer, aktueller und historischer Phänomene, Figuren und Diskurse wird das Geheime in diesem Werk nicht nur als Denkzugriff für Kultur und Ästhetik fruchtbar gemacht, sondern darüber hinaus auch als dynamisches Moment von Kultur- und Wissensbildung sowie nicht zuletzt als mögliche Bedingung eines Absoluten entworfen.
Interface Critique encourages comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspectives and promotes an understanding of the interface as a dynamic cultural phenomenon.
Interface Critique is neither interested in the enhancement of usability and mere ergonomic questions of design nor in the optimization of user orientation and user experience.
With contributions from:
Vilém Flusser, N. Katherine Hayles, Siegfried Zielinski, Olia Lialina, Max Bense, Frieder Nake, Armin Linke and many more.
I like to think about, relate to, and design for the unknown.
Currently I work as a:
// Visiting Professor for Creative Entrepreneurship at the Berlin University of the Arts. Get in touch if you want to build bridges between academia, industry, culture, politics and society in general.
// Founder and Managing Director at the Brand Strategy Shop 25A0 GmbH. Get in touch if you want to design strategic moves with tangible business results.
// Director Strategy at the Design Consultancy S-T-A-T-E GmbH. Get in touch if you want to cultivate and amplify brands that make sense, shape attitudes and define communications.
// Founder and Editor-in-chief of the Interface Critique platform, containing an open access journal and book series. Get in touch if you are interested in the conditions and contingencies of apparatuses and applications.
// Expert in the SOC panel at the European Commission Research Executive Agency. Don't get in touch.
Selected Awards: Bitkom Innovators Pitch 2008, Webby Jury + People's Choice 2009, Lead 2010, ADC 2014
BOOKS