Prof. Dr. Bianca Herlo
About
Bianca Herlo is a design professor and researcher in the fields of design and digital justice, social design, digital transformation and gender equity. She has been a professor at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Design Film Art, since September 2024. Her work focuses on digital inequalities, social and digital participation, and the social responsibility of design for digital change. Previously, Bianca was a visiting professor of design science at the HBK Braunschweig, Institute for Design Research, as well as a researcher at the Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Bianca is chair woman of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF) and a founding member of the international Social Design Network, as well as co-host of the podcast ‘Purple Code. Intersectional feminist perspectives on digital societies’.
Positions
Research Group Lead
From 15.9.2022 until October 2025: Research Group: Design, Diversity and New Commons
Until 14.9.2022: Research Group: Inequality and Digital Sovereignty
Contact
More Projects
Head of the reserach project INTERPART. Intercultural spaces for participation (2018-2021), funded by BMBF
Further research projects:
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"BauNow. Bauhaus Values Today", German-Iraeli Future Forum Foundation DIZF (2018-2019)
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"Participation in Museum Contexts", DBU (2016-2018)
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Modellprojekt "Bürger vernetzen Nachbarschaften. Quartiersentwicklung nutzt digitalen Wandel" des Landes NRW (2016-2018)
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"Mit-Mach-Stadt Brandis", SMI (2016-2017)
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"fast forward – too slow?", Buchlabor Dortmund (2015)
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"Communitiy Now? Conflicts. Interventions. New Publics", DIZF/bpb (2013-2016)
Publications
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