Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling

bieling@hfg-offenbach.de

Main building, room 311

Consultation

by arrangement

Discipline

Design Theory

Subject/Area

Theory/Science

Contact
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Photo: Kai Hatterman

Vita

Tom Bieling is a design researcher. His main interest is the social and political dimensions of design and the question of what things do to us. At the Centre for Design Research at HAW Hamburg (2019-2022) he represented the professorship for design theory and research, at HAWK Hildesheim he teaches design science (since 2021), previously guest professorships at the University of Trento and GUC Cairo, as well as various teaching positions for design theory and research. At the Design Research Lab of the Berlin University of the Arts (2010-2019), he led the research cluster Social Design, among others. Previously research assistant at the T-Labs / TU Berlin (2007-2010). He is co-editor of the book series Design Meanings (Mimesis), as well as the BIRD series (Birkhäuser/DeGruyter), part of the Board of International Research in Design, and initiator of designforschung.org (since 2008). He is co-founder of the Design Research Network and the initiative Design promoviert, as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft. He was named Young Innovator of the Year by the Falling Walls consortium. His award-winning work is exhibited worldwide. Books (selection): "Inclusion as Design - Participatory Research on, for and through Design" ( 2019), "Design (&) Activism" (2019) and "Gender (&) Design" (2020). He has been Professor of Design Theory at the HfG since the winter semester of 2022.

Projects (selection)

Theory of Design

Berlin International, 2021
Leitung: Tom Bieling

Semiotik des Ungewissen

HAW, 2022, Direction: Tom Bieling

Objects of Conspiracy / Design der Verschwörung

HAW, 2022, Direction: Tom Bieling

Kritik der Gestaltung – Gestaltung der Kritik

HAW, 2021, Direction: Tom Bieling

Was ist Designwissenschaft

HAWK, 2021, Direction: Tom Bieling

Tombieling widerstaendigedinge cover web

Widerständige Dinge (Resistant Things)

HfG, 2024, Leitung: Tom Bieling

Design Denken

HfG, 2024, Leitung: Tom Bieling

Tombieling designschafftwissen wissenschafftdesign

Wissen schafft Design – Design schafft Wissen

HAWK, 2021, Leitung: Tom Bieling

Ignorant Design

HfG, 2024, Leitung: Tom Bieling

Loud Things

Design der Sprache – Sprache des Designs. HfG 2024/25. Kollabo: "Design und Sprache", Leitung: Prof. Peter Eckart & Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling

Theories and practices of applied fantasy

HfG, 2023, Leitung: Tom Bieling

Theorien des Designs

HfG, 2023, Leitung: Tom Bieling

Tombieling sprachedesdesigns designdersprache web

Design of Unrest: Right-wing Metapolitics – Paralogy – Knowledge Spaces – Chaos

Text, Performance: Tom Bieling, Frieder Bohaumilitzky, Anke Haarmann, Torben Körschkes. Edition / Sound / Conception: Stephan Kraus; Camera / Conception: Tamara Hildebrand; Support / Subtitles: Alice Lagaay. German original version with english subtitles, 40 min.

Old City, New Future …

Treatise on the functionality of the ghostly
2021 - ongoing

Tom Bieling, Emine Yorganci

Old City, New Future …

Abhandlung über die Funktionalität des Geisterhaften. Tom Bieling, Emine Yorganci. 2021 – ongoing.

Forschen im Design (Research in Design)

HfG, 2023, Leitung: Tom Bieling

Design und Sprache

HfG 2024/25. Supervision: Prof. Peter Eckart & Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling

Publications

Tombieling design meanings design and activism bieling

Tombieling design meanings gender and design bieling

Bird30 nerd3 bieling christensen conradi cover

Designabilities designresearchjournal 1 4

Cambridgehandbookofundergraduateresearch

DaDa Erlhoff: About The Man Who Knew Too Much (2022)

Festschrift (kind of) edited by Maziar Rezai and Simon Meienberg. Limited private distribution. 2022.

Volmar moskatova distelmeyer videoconferencing

Nerd3 positionsandperspectives bieling christensen conradi

Design meanings hoger updating roland barthes mythologies web

Symposia (Auswahl)

Design promoviert

29. Kolloquium "Design promoviert". Organisation: Jan Zurwellen, Paula Schuster, Simon Meienberg, Anna Dill, Carina Moser, Karlotta Klussmann, Valentin Brück, Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling.

NERD 6th Sense

Conference on New Experimental Research in Design, co-hosted with BIRD Board of International Research in Design and Prof. Dr. Helge Oder at TH Augsburg / Faculty of Design.

Design Equity

Hosted by Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling & Prof. Dr. Uta Brandes

Wege zur Professur

Organisation: Dr. Ellen Wagner, Dr. Helena Schmedt, Riccarda Weih, Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling. Poster: Felix Lennig

Nerd take5 newexperimentalressearchindesign by bird

New Experimental Research in Design Confence co-organized with BIRD Board of International Research in Design. Hosted by Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen & Prof. Dr. Florian Conradi at Berlin University of the Arts / Weizenbaum Institute and the Technische Universität Berlin / Einstein Center Digital Future.

Access and Tinkering

"Designing Assistive Technologies as Political Practice" with Aimie Hamraie, Dr. Tomás Sanchez Criado, Prof. Dr. Anne Waldschmit u.a. Hosted by Tom Bieling, Melike Şahinol, Anna-Lena Wiechern , Robert Stock.

Spectres of Time in Space

Tracing Phantom Temporalities with Architectural Methodologies. Panel: Representations of the Ephemeral. Conference Lecture: Bieling & Yorganci.

9. April 2022

Formen der Erörterung

Online-Seminar on Design Research and Artistic Research: Anke Haarmann, Alice Lagaay, Tom Bieling, Petja Ivanova, Torben Körschkes, Frieder Bohaumilitzky, Barbro Scholz in Cooperation with the Promotionszentrum HAW Hamburg.

28.6.22

Diverse

After School Club

Keynote Lecture "Entangled Practices", After School Club – Interdisciplinary Art+Design Festival, HfG Offenbach | Festival Orga: Elise Pixel, Fabian Arnold, Kilian Pfifferling, Masha Egorova, Mia Schreibe, Tanya Tverdokhlebova, Victor Gorelik.