Axel Buether

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Axel Buether (* 1967 in Weimar ) is a German media scholar , perceptual psychology and architect with the research priorities color , light and space and co-founder of modern color psychology . He is professor for didactics of visual communication at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . Since 2007 he has been the chairman of the board of the “Deutsches Farbenzentrum e. V. - Central Institute for Color in Science and Design ”.

Life

After training as a stonemason and working as a restorer and freelance stone sculptor , he studied architecture at the TU Berlin , the UdK Berlin and the Architectural Association London. Axel Buether earned a diploma in architecture and then realized numerous projects in the areas of spatial scenography and media art such as the Bertelsmann Pavilion at EXPO 2000 . He then did his doctorate in the border area of perceptual psychology and architectural theory at the University of Stuttgart with the thesis "Semiotics of the visual space"

After a scientific assistant in 1999-2005 in the field of "Designing Residential and Social Buildings" at the University of Cottbus , he was appointed to the professorship "Color, Light, Space" at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle in 2006 . In 2012, he was appointed to the professorship “Perceptual Psychology and Creativity” in the Faculty of Media · Information · Design at the University of Hanover . In 2013 he was offered the professorship “Design and Design Theory” in the Faculty of Education · Architecture · Arts at the University of Siegen . In 2012 he was offered the professorship in "Didactics of Visual Communication" at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , where he is currently active in teaching and research in the Faculty of Design and Art.

Buether became known beyond specialist circles through popular science lectures, publications, conferences and broadcasts.

Publications (selection)

• The effect of the color gray on our experience and behavior. In: Mainly gray. Verlag Form und Zweck Berlin 2013
• Spatial thinking and brain. In: Fullspace projection: With the 360 ​​° lab to the holodeck. Springer Berlin 2013
• Color as a memory trace. In: Stadtfarben. Societäts-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2013
• Systematic intelligence and competence promotion in the creative professional field with a focus on the professions of media design and media technology. In: bwp @ Spezial 6 - University days for vocational training 2013
• Paths to creative design. Methods and exercises. EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig 2013
• From the belt to the room. Creative experiment exploring infinity. In: Three-dimensional design practice elementary school 3/2013. Georg Westermann Braunschweig 2013
• Visual communication in space. In: Architecture all day. Scope for building culture education. kopad Munich 2014
• Colour. Basics of design, planning strategies, visual communication. Institute f. intern. Architecture Documentation Munich 2014
• Color. Design Fundamentals Planning Strategies Visual Communication. Institute f. intern. Architecture Documentation Munich 2014
• Building culture is ... material substance and immaterial expression of human existence. In: Column magazine Baukultur. Federal Foundation for Building Culture Potsdam 2015
• Color multidisciplinary. In: Biospektrum - magazine for life sciences 5/2015. Springer Spectrum Berlin 2015
• From room perception to room design. In: AIT - architecture interior design technical expansion. Magazine 9/2015. Publishing house Alexander Koch Leinfelden-E. 2015
• Why we think rooms are beautiful. In: Betonprisma 99/2015 magazine perception. Information Center Beton Erkrath 2015
• Color, light and atmosphere. In: luxlumina Architektur & Lichtdesign Magazin 15/2016, luxlumina Verlag Lachen (SZ) 2016
• Art as a dialogue process. In: Current positions in art didactics. kopaed Munich 2016
• The language of colors. In: luxlumina Architektur & Lichtdesign Magazin 16/2016, luxlumina Verlag Lachen (SZ) 2016
• Use of color systems in architecture - benefits and limits. In: DETAIL 12/2016 - color, material, surface. DETAIL Business Information Munich 2016
• Color Psychology and Color Marketing. In: luxlumina Architektur & Lichtdesign Magazin 18/2017, luxlumina Verlag Lachen (SZ) 2017
• Atmospheric effects of the colors. In: Faces of Interior, Magazine 1/2017. Publishing house Alexander Koch Leinfelden-E. 2017
• Design. In: Lexicon of Art Education. Athena Verlag Oberhausen 2017
• The language of space. In: Perceiving architecture. transcript Bielefeld 2017
• Teaching and learning creativity. In: Creativity in Art Education Discourse: Contributions from theory, practice and empiricism. Kopaed Munich 2018
• Didactics of educational films - teaching and learning through audiovisual media, in: Moving World // Moving Images, Ed. Friederike Rückert, kopaed 2018
• Shaping digitization - Shaping public interests in the digital transformation of networked societies, in: Was ist Public Interest Design ?, transcript Verlag 2018
• The mysterious power of colors. How they influence our behavior and feelings. Dromer, Munich 2020

Web links

• Publisher of the educational platform Colour.education , a non-profit project of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and the German Color Center to convey knowledge and experience from all research, theoretical and practical fields of "color"
• Editor of the educational platform Digitalisierung.education , a non-profit project of the chair “Didactics of Visual Communication” at the University of Wuppertal to stimulate discourse, network people and impart knowledge on the topic of digitization in education.
• Chair of the German Color Center eV - Central Institute for Color in Science and Design
• Axel Buether's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media design / AV / IA: people. Retrieved March 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ About Us - Deutsches Farbenzentrum eV Retrieved on March 23, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ A. Buether: semiotics of perception space. Basics for the development and methodical promotion of spatial-visual competence. PhD at the University of Stuttgart with Prof. Dr. Gerd de Bruyn, Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Karl Schawelka
4. ↑ Former. Retrieved March 23, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Colors - Why we see the world colorful. May 10, 2019, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
6. ↑ PUR + The power of colors. Retrieved March 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Evolution and colors - When the world became colorful. Retrieved on March 23, 2020 (German).