Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling
T 069.800 59 211
Main building, room 311 a + b
Consultation
by arrangement
Discipline
Subject/Area
Theory/Science
Faculty
Function
Chairman of the doctoral committee
External
designforschung.org
designabilities.org
BIRD Board of International Research in Design
Contact
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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
Widerständige Dinge (Resistant Things)
HfG, 2024, Leitung: Tom Bieling
Design Denken
HfG, 2024, Leitung: Tom Bieling
Ignorant Design
HfG, 2024, Leitung: Tom Bieling
Theories and practices of applied fantasy
HfG, 2023, 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
Theorien des Designs
HfG, 2023, Leitung: Tom Bieling
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
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
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.
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
Spectres of Time in Space
Tracing Phantom Temporalities with Architectural Methodologies. Panel: Representations of the Ephemeral. Conference Lecture: Bieling & Yorganci.
9. April 2022
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.
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.
Entangled Practices – Pleasures and Ambiguities of Co-Operation
Keynote Lecture, After School Club, HfG Offenbach, 5. Sept. 2024.
BARRIERE/FREI_TAG, Introduction
Opening Lecture. Organisation: Prof. Janina Schmidt, Prof. Adrian Nießler, Prof. Johanna Siebein. Poster: Felix Lennig
Play the System
Lecture & Discussion Prof. Heike Grebin. Orga: Prof. Dr. Tom Bieling, Prof. Siebein. Poster: Siebein
Zentrum für Designforschung
Speculative Space Exhibition / Rundgang / Hamburg (Flyer: Torben Körschkes)
'Recognising psychic things from the expressive movements …. '
Emine Yorganci & Tom Bieling Scroope Terrace Gallery, Cambridge, 2022.