Hans Höger

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Hans Leo Höger (* 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German art historian , university professor , consultant and author .

In 1991 he received his PhD from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with a thesis on "Continuity and method in the work of Ettore Sottsass ". phil. PhD. Before working as a university lecturer, he also worked as a consultant for companies and design offices. For several years he has paid particular attention to topics related to design research .

Life

After studying art history, linguistics and cultural studies - in Bonn, Tübingen, Perugia and Quimper - Hans Höger was appointed technical director and managing director of the German Design Council in Frankfurt am Main in 1992 . In 1996 he curated the Federal Republic of Germany's contribution to the XIX. Milan Triennial (subject: future of urban living spaces). In the same year he and Georg-Christof Bertsch were responsible for the "Attitudes for the Next Millennium" congress program at the 46th International Design Conference in Aspen (Colorado) .

Höger has been advising companies and design offices on strategy, concept and implementation of design, architecture and communication projects since 1998. So far, his clientele has included a. Michele De Lucchi, Ruedi Baur , Siemens AG , Olivetti , Bayerische Rückversicherung (now Swiss Re Germany), Cologne / Bonn Airport and the Italian Post .

Since 2005 he has been Professor of Theory and History of Design and Communication at the Free University of Bozen . As a visiting professor and contract lecturer, he has a. a. taught in Zurich, Saarbrücken, Würzburg, Milan ( Luigi Bocconi University of Economics ), New York ( City College of New York ) and at Kent State University (Ohio).

In 2007 he curated the international conference Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future . The following year, the Swiss National Science Foundation appointed him to the committee of its reviewers for scientific research projects in Bern .

In 2009 he was appointed to the program committee of the international conference Multiple Ways to Design Research in Lugano. Also in 2009, the international network for design research accepted him into its Advisory Board.

In 2012, the DFG German Research Foundation (Bonn) appointed him to the committee of its reviewers for scientific research projects. In the same year he became a member of the editorial board of the Bozen-Bolzano University Press .

Important publications

  • microstories of innovation and firms: encounters between design and business, Bozen 2017
  • Design & History (together with Kerstin Stutterheim ), series 'querfeldein' Vol. 2, Weimar 2009
  • Design Research, Abitare Segesta, Milan 2008
  • Zurich - Milan, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden 2007
  • Design Education, Abitare Segesta, Milan 2006
  • LightWorks, UniPress, Bozen 2006
  • Design & Politics (together with Kerstin Stutterheim), series 'querfeldein' Vol. 1, Würzburg 2005
  • intégral ruedi baur et associés, Pyramyd ntcv, Paris 2003
  • Michele De Lucchi , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2001
  • The Tizio lamp by Richard Sapper , Birkhäuser, Basel 1997
  • Double and more, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden 1996
  • Lucius Burckhardt - Design is Invisible, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1995
  • Ettore Sottsass jr., Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 1993

Publications online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future
  2. ↑ Multiple Ways to Design Research ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.multipleways09.ch
personal data
SURNAME Höger, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höger, Hans Leo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart