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Prof. Dr. Florian Conradi

Research Group Lead
Florian Conradi

Florian Conradi is a designer and researcher combining critical theory and design as an approach to critical practice. He studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz and at the Art Department of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He went on to complete an M.F.A. in Design at the Sandberg Institute (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) in Amsterdam, an M.A. in integrated design at the Köln International School of Design in Cologne, and wrote his Ph.D. in the field of Design Research at the UdK Berlin. Since 2008 he has been initiating sociopolitical design projects with institutions in the field of critical media and political advocacy, carrying out field research in Europe, as well as in the Middle East, East and West Africa.

He has taught critical approaches to design and design methods at amongst other places the Köln International School of Design, the UdK Berlin, and as a visiting professor at the international Master program in Integrated Design at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. Currently he is a visiting professor at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Literature at the Technische Universität Berlin / Einstein Center Digital Future, as well as heading a research group on critical maker culture at the UdK Berlin / Weizenbaum Institute together with Michelle Christensen.

Positions at Weizenbaum Institut

Research Group Lead

Since 15 September 2022: Research Group “Design, Diversität and New Commons

Until 14 September 2022: Research Group "Critical Maker Culture"

Contact
Email
f.conradi@udk-berlin.de
Organisation
Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK)

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