How can we embrace change to drive desirable futures?
In my work, this is what I aim for: researching, analysing, proposing, prototyping and teaching new processes and systems in order to drive change towards desirable futures.
Using the wisdom of nature, AI, a vivid network of ambitious people, that I have the fortune to collaborate with and a great deal of digital high-tech, I aspire to be a an empowering consultant, an inspiring professor and last but not least a loving father,
How does the 'new' come into existence?
Let us appreciate it: we live in a world that is driven by radical change. It's in the very definition of life: the complex interplay of resources and challenges.
Evolution has led to a mind-blowing abundance of processes that are doing exactly that: Creating resilience through change!
Applying the principles of design thinking and intense user research, I love to take design innovation to the next level.
Academic Endeavours
My academic activities are based at HS ANHALT, located in the monumental heritage BAUHAUS-Building in Dessau, next to Berlin. I research and teach interaction design, including the fields of Complex User Experience, Data Visualization, Digital-Physical Convergence and Artificial Intelligence. Inspired by Walter Gropius' holistic approach, I research and synthesize innovative interaction to address 21th centuries' wicked challenges.
Together with my colleagues, fellow researchers and international students we strive to further develop Dessau's role as a disruptive design school.
I am also an external researcher at TUM Technical University of Munich. There I research on joint decsion-making.
Business and Realising Futures
My consulting activities are strongly associated with CAVORIT Consulting, a Berlin-based company innovating in Data Science, Digital Twins and AI. It does so by facilitating a combination of big data visualization/interaction, business psychology, software development and strategic consulting.
CAVORIT hosts both research and commercial projects. Clients range from international companies like Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce to Berlin start-ups and NGOs.
CAVORIT's passion is to empower user-centric innovation.
Curriculum Vitae / Selected Projects
- • Full Professor for 'Interaction Design' at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
- • Partner and 30% Shareholder at CAVORIT Consulting GmbH, Berlin
- • 2025 Citizen App Participative City Development via AR and AI, New European Bauhaus, Just Transition Fund, ca. 1.500.000 €
- • 2025 Paper 'Futures' Fingerprints: Joint Scenario Assessment via Graspable Boundary Objects in Digital Decision-Making Spaces, HICSS '59
- • 2024 Paper 'The Evolution of Design Patterns in Joint Decision-Making Spaces` Design 2024 Conference, Dubrovnik
- • 2024 DaMitt ('Data Science für den Mittelstand') by BMBF (300.000€ Volume) Transfer Project TUM + CAVORIT
- • 2024 Paper "Crafting Future Scenarios with the Help of AI" HICSS, Hawaii, USA
- • 2023 Paper ICED Bordeaux OpenSource Analogue Fashionable Hearing Aid
- • 2020-2024 (ongoing) Mercedes Benz Fleet Planning Tool 'Joint Decision Assist' JoDA CAVORIT Consulting GmbH
- • 2023 Hawaiian International Conference on System Science "Future Oriented Design Framework"
- • 2022 Paper "Data Physicalisation" Design Research Society DRS. Bilbao, Spain
- • 2022 Paper 'Designing the Future With the "Delphi Design Sprint": Introducing a Novel Method for Design Science Research' Hawaiian International Conference on System Science, Hawaii, USA
- • 2019 Successful Fundraising Transfer project "Forza" (ca. 400.000€, BMBF)
- • 2019 Successful Fundraising spin-off Startup "Panels" (ca. 230.000€, Investitionsbank)
- • 2019 Generative Campain ITZ Bund mit Serviceplan
- • 2018 VJE Virtual Jet Engine Digital Twin for Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace CAVORIT
- • 2017 "Design against walls" with Prof. Alejandro Lecuna
- • 2016 Introduction of Y-Method at DGTF - Conference
- • 2016 Partner at Cavorit GmbH in it's founding Phase
- • 2014 - 2017 Research Project "Kinetic Change" with BiTs Iserlohn and BTK Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ralf Lanwehr
- • 2013 - 2014 Deputy Professor Interaction Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau
- • 2013 Academic Paper on Smart Geometries 'Gradient Grid - A Spring Mesh with Different Zones of Flexibility'
- • 2011 IF Gold Award with ART+COM
- • 2010 Boulevard of Stars, Berlin
- • 2010 Reflective Kinematronic Sculpture "Mobility" for Shanghai World Expo
- • 2009 OttoBock Science Center for Medical Technology
- • 2013 New Research Project 'Kinetic Change' about tangible communication of cooperate processes. With Prof. Dr. Ralf Lanwehr
- • 2013 New Patent about gradient structures through Rapid Manufacturing
- • 2012 'Manta Rhei' - Kinetik OLED Luminaire
- • 2012 'Four Rivers' – Semantic Caustic Surface, Gwangju, South Korea
- • 2011 Birth of my lovely daughter Mina
- • 2011 ADC New York Award – Silver Cube (For ART+COM AG)
- • 2011 ADC Deutschland Bronzener Nagel (For ART+COM AG)
- • 2009 Creative Direction Otto Bock Science Center for Medical Technology
- • 2008 Publication at Form+Zweck, "TUI–Tangibility of the Digital"
- • 2008 Exhibition at ARS Electronica Festival, Linz
- • 2008 - 2013 Senior Art Director at ART+COM
- • 2008 Project 'Cockpit' – driving in the digital age CdK, Hangzhou
- • 2008 - 2011 Visiting Professor at Chinesisch Deutsche Kunstakademie, Hangzhou, China
- • 2007 design reaktor - assisted in the development of 5 pending student patents
- • 2007 "Generative Growth", for "Prototypen" Exhibition at Stiftung Brandenburger Tor
- • 2006 Diploma: TransForm - a geodesic tangible shape display, UdK Berlin
- • 2006-2008 Cooperation with Hyperwerk, Basel
- • 2006 - 2013 Docent at the Berlin University of the Arts
- • 2003-2008 Freelance Interaction Design Professional
- • 2003 Cultural Clusters, Assistant docent at Prof. Langkilde in cooperation with Mitsubishi Mobile Europe
- • 2001-2006 Interaction Design Studies at ID5-Fachgruppe für interaktive Systeme, UdK Berlin, Prof. Burkard Schmitz
- • 2000-2001 Astrophysics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- • 1998 International Patents for flexible mesh Formetall / Flexmetall
- • Born 1979