Gerhard M. Buurman
Gerhard M. Buurman (* 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German designer and cultural scientist.
Life
Gerhard Buurman completed an apprenticeship as a foundry pattern maker at BMW and studied industrial design at the University of Essen from 1986 to 1992 . In 1994 he was in Essen with Stefan Lengyel and Wolfgang Jonas with art historical work on the methodological aspects of the use of online technologies in the design process, using the example of product development at Ford-Werke AG in Cologne , to Dr. phil. PhD . He was then senior assistant in the industrial design master class at Horst Meru's chair for industrial design at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz . In 1998 he was visiting professor for interactive media in Linz. Gerhard M. Buurman is the grandson of Otto Buurman .
In 1999, Gerhard M. Buurman received a call for industrial design and design theory at the Zurich University of Art and Design (HGKZ) ( Zurich University of the Arts from 2007 ). He founded the Interaction Design department in 1999 and the Game Design department in 2004 . In 2005, Buurman initiated the establishment of the Swiss Design Institute for Finance and Banking (SDFB) , a collaborative project between ETH Zurich , the University of Zurich and the University of St. Gallen . The SDFB was a third-party funded pilot project for the Zurich University of the Arts and mainly worked with future forms of bank-customer interaction. Today Gerhard M. Buurman works at the interface between design and economics. In addition to his university work, Gerhard M. Buurman was a co-founder of Plasma Design Zurich (2004–2012). During this time, together with his partner Christian Weber, he worked on projects a. a. Realized for James Turrell , ETH Zurich, Swiss Museum of Transport .
Fonts (selection)
- Gerhard M. Buurman (Ed.): Total Interaction . Birkhäuser, Basel 2005. ISBN 978-3-7643-7076-3 OLCL Number: 249147565
- Gerhard M. Buurman et al. Roden Crater Interactive . In: Ursula Sinnreich: James Turrell : Geometry of Light. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2009. ISBN 978-3-7757-2369-5 OCLC Number: 310156690
- Gerhard M. Buurman, Stephan Trueby (ed.): Money cultures . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-7705-5461-4 OLCL Number: 827086085
- Gerhard M. Buurman, Marc Rölli (Eds.): Eigenlogik des Design . Niggli, Sulgen 2016. ISBN 9783721209310 OCLC Number: 894691829
- Gerhard M. Buurman, Marc Rölli (Eds.): The Intrinsic Logic of Design . Niggli, Sulgen 2016. ISBN 978-3-7212-0933-4 OCLC Number: 46858728
- Gerhard M. Buurman: A series of lectures on the subject of design and economics . 2015. ISSN 2297-7066 Swiss National Library
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Buurman, Gerhard M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German designer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |