Prof. Lisa Borgenheimer
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Lisa Borgenheimer has been Professor of Information Design at HfG Offenbach since the 2020 winter semester. She studied Communication Design (B.A.) and Interactive Media (M.A.) at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and completed her doctorate at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with a thesis titled "Informing Information" (degree conferral pending, including publication).
Representing Germany, Borgenheimer served on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Theme Advisory Group (TAG) and Design Contest Jury (DCJ) for the design of the new euro banknotes.
Her research and teaching focus on information design methodology and its transformation through new technologies. AI-driven systems, robotics, interaction, and immersion are shifting the field toward "experiential information": information is no longer merely viewed but entered, interrogated, simulated, and contextualized within one's own lived reality.
This paradigm shift in information design lies at the heart of her work. Interactive and immersive technologies open up new modes of communication in which content becomes dialogic, situational, embodied, and spatial. Information is not just displayed but directly experienced.
In her doctoral thesis, "Informing Information," Borgenheimer developed an ontology of information design that interrelates the discipline's theoretical foundations, methodological models, and practical fields of application. This work forms the basis for her research into immersive information design and analog-digital information systems.
Her interdisciplinary projects are developed in collaboration with municipalities, cultural institutions, and partners from the business, political, academic, and cultural sectors. She currently works in contexts such as exhibitions and museums, music visualization, and the development of new ways to communicate complex content.
From 2015 to 2018, Borgenheimer served as an Assistant Professor/Researcher (RTD) for Information Design and Visual Storytelling within the Eco-Social Design Master’s program at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. There, she conducted research on eco-social transformation processes through visual knowledge transfer and led the funded research project "Participatory Budgeting in Mals" in the Upper Vinschgau region.
Borgenheimer has held international and national workshops and lectures at universities, research institutions, and conferences. As a lecturer, she has taught at various higher education institutions across Europe, including Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
She serves as a jury member for the Asian Media Awards and is the recipient of national and international honors, including the Malofiej Award, the Information is Beautiful Award, the IIID Award, and the European Student Award.