Hey, Iโm Sven Quadflieg โ I work in the field of design (โบquadflieg.studio), design research and design theory.ย
I studied design and visual communication at the Folkwang University of the Arts (Essen, Germany) and the Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland) and wrote my doctoral thesis at the HFBK Hamburg. As a designer I have worked mainly in the socio-cultural field. I am currently a professor at HSHL, having previously taught at the Bergische Universitรคt Wuppertal, the Fachhochschule Mรผnster, Ecosign and the Folkwang Universitรคt der Kรผnste. I am a member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research, the International Gender Design Network, and the Design & Posthumanism Network.ย
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Quadflieg, Sven (2021): Mit erhobener Faust. Die รsthetik des Protests und die Inszenierung der serbischen Revolution. Hamburg: Adocs
Quadflieg, Sven; Neuburg, Klaus; Nestler, Simon (Eds.) (2022): (Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies.ย Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data. Bielefeld: Transcript
Quadflieg, Sven; Theune, Gregor (Eds.) (2016): Nadogradnje.ย Urban Self-Regulation in Post-Yugoslav Cities. Weimar: M Books
Quadflieg, Sven (2023): WEIRD Problems โ Rethinking Privileged Design?, in: Mehl, Johanna, Hรถfler, Carolin (Eds.): Attending [to] Futures. Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, Practice.ย Hamburg:ย Adocs
Quadflieg, Sven; Neuburg, Klaus; Nestler, Simon (2022): (Dis)obeying Algorithms?ย Introductory Thoughts on the Powerย of Algorithms and the Possibleย Necessity of Resisting it, in: ead.: (Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies. Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data.ย Bielefeld:ย Transcript
Quadflieg, Sven; Nestler, Simon; Sturm, Christian (2021): Diversitรคt in der Konzeption und Gestaltung sicherheitskritischer Systeme, in: Reuter, Christian (Ed.): Sicherheitskritische Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. Interaktive Technologien und Soziale Medien im Krisen- und Sicherheitsmanagement.ย Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg
Nestler, Simon; Quadflieg, Sven; Neuburg, Klaus (2021): The Design Prism. How Informatory-Algorithmic Education can Benefit from Design Competencies, in: Schulze Heuling,ย Lydia; Filk, Christian (Eds.): Algorithmic and aesthetic literacy. Emerging Transdisciplinary Explorations for the Digital Age. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Quadflieg, Sven (2020): Alle Namen, in: Christensen,ย Michelle; Fezer, Jesko; Herlo, Bianca; Hornuff, Daniel; Joost, Gesche (Eds.), Lechts und Rinks.ย Hamburg: Adocs
Quadflieg, Sven (2018): Gestaltete Gesellschaft? Gestaltende Gesellschaft?ย Fragestellungen zur Problematik des transformativen Designs, in: Rodatz,ย Christoph; Smolarski, Pierre (Eds.): Was ist Public Interest Design? Positionen zurย Gestaltung รถffentlicher Interessen. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag
Quadflieg, Sven (2016): Acts of self-regulation. An approach to the potential ofย informal roof extensions, in: Quadflieg, Sven; Theune, Gregor (Eds.):ย Nadogradnje. Urban Self-Regulation in Post-Yugoslav Cities. Weimar:ย M Books
Jessen, Dustin; Quadflieg, Sven (2023): Towards Contingency: How Design Literacy Empowers Pluralistic Worldviews and Enhances Transitional Design., in: Temes de Disseny 39: 198-207. https://doi.org/10.46467/TdD39.2023.92-113
Quadflieg, Sven (2023): Spaces for friction? Using the concept of free space as a starting point for sustainable and desirable futures, in: Holmlid, S., Rodrigues, V., Westin, C., Krogh, P. G., Mรคkelรค, M., Svanaes, D., Wikberg-Nilsson, ร (eds.),ย Nordes 2023: This Space Intentionally Left Blank, 12-14 June, Linkรถping University, Norrkรถping, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2023.119ย
Quadflieg, Sven (2022): Post-anthropocentric Design: Theย problem ofย optimizingย theย relationship betweenย humans andย nature, in: Leitรฃo,ย Renata M.; Men, Immony; Noel, Lesley-Ann; Lima, Jananda; Meninato, Tieni (eds.): Proceedings of Pivot 2021. Dismantling/reassembling โ Tools for alternative futures. (โบ PDF)
Nestler, Simon; Quadflieg, Sven; Neuburg, Klaus (2021): Challenges of downscaling and upscaling in human-centered design, in: Brandt, Eva; Markussen, Thomas, Berglund, Eva; Julier, Guy; Linde, Per (eds.): Proceedings of Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale. 15-18 August 2021, Kolding, Denmark. ( โบ Researchgate)
Neuburg, Klaus; Quadflieg, Sven; Nestler, Simon (2021): Will artificial intelligence make designers obsolete?, in: Engenhart, Marc; Loewe, Sebastian (eds.): Proceedings of the First Conference on Designing with Artificial Intelligenceโจ. Mรผnchen: appliedAIย (โบ Researchgate)
Nestler, Simon; Quadflieg, Sven; Neuburg, Klaus (2020): Das Design-Prisma - Interdisziplinรคre Lรถsung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen, in: Fischer, Holger & Hess, Steffen (Eds.), Mensch und Computer 2020 โ Usability Professionals. Bonn: Gesellschaft fรผr Informatik e.V. und German UPA e.V.. DOI: 10.18420/muc2020-up-0110 (โบ Researchgate)
Kucera, Jan; Quadflieg, Sven (2013): Wirkungszusammenhรคnge versus dualeย Datenkorrelationen, in: ARCH+. Zeitschrift fรผr Architektur und Stรคdtebau.ย Ausgabe 213, S. 176โ177
Quadflieg, Sven (2022): Form follows โฆ what? Designlehre im Kontext des Anthropozรคns, in: Augsten, Andrea; Wรถlfel, Christian; Frye, Annika; Kรถck, Markus (eds.): Design ร Nachhaltigkeit. Jahrestagung der DGTF 2022, Book of Abstracts.
Quadflieg, Sven; Nestler, Simon; Neuburg Klaus (2021): Spuren einer digitalen Ebene โ die Allgegenwart des Digitalen im Stadtraum, in: Fricke, Ellen; Meiler, Matthias (eds.):ย Transformations โย Signs and their Objectsย in Transition.ย 16th International Congress of theย German Society for Semiotics 2021.ย
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Spaces for friction? Using the concept of free space as a starting point for sustainable and desirable futures (Talk). ยปNordes. The 10th Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) Conferenceยซ, Linkรถping University
Form follows โฆ what? Designlehre im Kontext des Anthropozรคns (Talk). ยปDesign ร Nachhaltigkeitยซ, DGTF, Kiel
Weird Problems โ Rethinking Privileged Design? (Talk). ยปAttending (to) Futuresยซ,ย Kรถln International School of Design
Challenges of downscaling and upscaling in human-centered design. (Talk โ with Klaus Neuburg).ย ยปNordes 2021. Matters of Scaleยซ, Kolding (Online)
Spuren einer digitalen Ebene. (Talk โ with Klaus Neuburg). ยปDeutsche Gesellschaft fรผr Semiotikยซย (Online)
Post-anthropocentric design? (Talk) ยปPivot 2021. Dismantling/reassembling โ Tools for alternative futuresยซ, Toronto (Online)
Social Design? (Talk) ยปSocial Designยซ, HS Wismar (Online)
Will Artificial Intelligence Make Designers Obsolete? (Talk โ with Klaus Neuburg and Simon Nestler). ยปDesigning with Artificial Intelligenceยซ,ย MD.H, Berlin
Design Prism (Workshop โ with Klaus Neuburg und Simon Nestler).ย ยปMensch und Computerยซ,ย University of Magdeburg
Die Rollen des Designs in der digitalen Welt (Panel Discussion).ย ยปWas ist Public Interest Design?ยซ, University of Wuppertal
Archรคologie der Gegenwart (Workshop), Froh!, Hamm
Die รsthetik politischer Proteste im urbanen Raum (Talk). Public Positions,ย University of Wuppertal
Partizipation und Selbstregulierung in architektonischen Prozessenย (Panel Discussion), AIT Architektursalon Cologneย
Design promoviert (Organization and moderation), Deutsche Gesellschaft fรผr Designtheorie und -forschung
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Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon โ they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse โ or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power.
Quadflieg, Sven; Neuburg, Klaus; Nestler, Simon (Eds.) (2022): (Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies.ย Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data. Bielefeld: Transcript
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Political resistance is not only linked to content, but also to signs and images. Many of the demonstrations, protests, and political upheavals of recent years can be understood as large-scale performances in which iconic images, signs, speeches, and demands form the enduring image of the events โ or a collage of these elements. As if in a society of spectacle, in an over-designed world in which protest has to assert itself between pop culture and brand capitalism, resistance itself also has to be spectacular and designed โ so visual codes of protest often fit into a complex overall aesthetic picture. Based on the Serbian revolution of 2000, this book examines and documents the aesthetics of political protest and the presentation โ the complex interplay in spatial and situational context, of action and reaction โ of resistance.
Quadflieg, Sven (2021): Mit erhobener Faust. Die รsthetik des Protests und die Inszenierung der serbischen Revolution. Hamburg: Adocs
After the territorial division of former Yugoslavia, the political and social turns as well as a rapid transformation from a socialist planned economy into a neoliberal market economy and high pressure of urban development met weak public institutions which had not yet adapted to the post-socialist and post-war order.ย New urban and architectural orders of varying scale bear witness to this development and are firmly rooted in the cityscape, both visually and structurally. With Gregor Theunes photographs as a visual starting point, Nadogradnje brings together a pictorial approach to urban landscapes and scientific positions by international authors of various disciplinary backgrounds in order to open a wide field of discourse on the Balkanโs informal architecture.
Quadflieg, Sven; Theune, Gregor (Eds.) (2016): Nadogradnje.ย Urban Self-Regulation in Post-Yugoslav Cities. Weimar: M Books
Impressions of past projects in the field of design and design theory. Visit quadflieg.studio to see commissioned work.
Prof. Dr. Sven Quadflieg
Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt
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