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· Un/making the Chair
· Urban Data Objects
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I AM
a design ethnographer and research maker cultures in times of polycrisis. In my PhD at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organisation at Leuphana University Lüneburg, I explored urban living labs in the rural areas of North-Eastern Germany and investigated how they mobilise design as an agent of eco-social change. I have a background in integrative design, experimental typography and media studies.


CONTACT
Post-Publishing
EMW Potsdam
2015





Post-Publishing (dt. Post-Publizieren) is a practice-led research around the margins of electronic books and my Bachelor Thesis from the Eurpean Media Theory in Potsdam.

In seven studies, different properties from possible physical formats, programmability or its characteristic qualities are investigated. The final outcome is a detailed documentation and process reflection, published both as a traditional binded book, as well as a digital version.
As a main finding of the thesis, I characterized the parameterability as a genuine quality of the e-book. Therefore and in addition to the examining analysis, I developed the prototype of a full-parametric and self-generating layout for the e-book „Münchhausen“. The layout, that is usually set by the designer down to the last detail, is now generated automatically by the reader`s surrounding and environmental conditions. The designer becomes rather a director, who defines the ruleset of the reading experience, than its actual visual form.


Study 5 Study 7 Study 7 Study 4 Study 7 Study 6 Study 2 Study 3 Study 8 Study 5 Study 3
Studies
  1. ☞ Drama in 5 acts: eB≠B
  2. Hybrid Workflow
  3. Digital Devices
  4. The creature of the book
  5. ☞ Re:print
  6. Cubic software aesthetics
  7. The language of the game
  8. Münchhausen (e-Book)

☞ BA Thesis complete (pdf)