Peter Friedrich Stephan

Peter Friedrich Stephan (born August 9, 1959 ) is a German designer and author . Since 1997 he has been Professor of Theory and Design of Hypermedia at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne .

Life

In 1975 Stephan took part in Joe Viera's jazz workshops at the Hanover University of Music and Theater. From 1979 he began studying design at the Berlin University of the Arts , after which he studied music from 1980 to 1983 at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock (New York) with Karl Berger and from 1983 to 1984 at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . 1982–1984 founder, keyboardist and tenor saxophonist of the punk jazz band Zatopek , 1984–1989 keyboardist with the Noise / Wave Band Mint , and 1986 for a short time with Element of Crime . 1984–1989 studied design again in Berlin with Hans Roericht and participated in New German Design.

Stephan has been working as an author, designer, producer and consultant for media productions in the field of corporate communications since 1983. He also holds teaching positions at the University of the Arts in Berlin , the University of St. Gallen and the International School of New Media in Lübeck.

From 1994 to 1997, Stephan and Mihai Nadin re-established the subject “Computational Design” at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . Between 1999 and 2005 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Society for Semiotics . From 2003 to 2005 Stephan was a co-founder and co-managing director of the Knowledge Media Design forum , which is now a specialist group in the German Society for Computer Science.

Stephan is one of the co-founders of knowledge design in Germany and is involved in the international development of "cognitive design". Since 2006 he has been running the Raumstaben research project together with Claudius Lazzeroni from the Folkwang University in Essen. In 2008 Stephan is co-organizer of the Cognitive Design workshop in Lübeck.

Publications

• Knowledge design - creative aspects of future knowledge (dis) order , in: Lucke, Ulrike; Kindsmüller, Martin Christof; Fischer, Stefan; Herczeg, Michael; Seehusen, Silke (Hsrs.) 2008: Workshop Proceedings of the conferences Mensch & Computer 2008, DeLFI 2008 and Cognitive Design 2008, Berlin: Logos, pp. 452–456, ISBN 3-832-52007-4
• Entry information in Michael Erlhoff, Tim Marshall (Hrsg.) 2007: Dictionary Design, Basel u. a .: Birkhäuser. ISBN 3-764-37738-0
• I-com magazine , issue 2/2006: Knowledge Media Design , Munich: Oldenbourg (co-publisher). ISSN  1618-162X
• Cognitive Design - A Perspective of Design Research, in: Swiss Design Network 2005: Research Landscapes in the Environment of Design, Zurich: Museum of Design. ISBN 3-906437-14-0
• Knowledge Media Design - Theory, Methods, Practice, Munich: Oldenbourg 2005 (co-editor), 2nd edition. ISBN 3-486-58014-0
• Entries information architecture, interaction, multimedia, navigation, user interface , in: Thomas Schildhauer (Ed.) 2002: Lexikon des E-Commerce, Munich: Oldenbourg. ISBN 3-486-27263-2
• Failure as an opportunity - corporate identity in the digital economy , in: Klaus Birkigt, Marinus Stadler, Hans Joachim Funck (Ed.) 2002: Corporate Identity - Basics, Functions, Case Studies, Munich: Verlag Moderne Industrie (11th edition). ISBN 3-478-25540-6
• Luigi Colani - The designer as a brand, visionary and narrator , in: Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt, Ed. 2002: Experiment 70 - Design Visions by Luigi Colani and Günter Beltzig , catalog for the exhibition, Heidelberg: Edition Braus. ISBN 3-899-04042-2
• Thinking on the model - design in the context of visual science , in: Bernhard E. Bürdek (Ed.) 2001: The digital madness, Frankfurt / M .: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-12146-4
• Peter Friedrich Stephan (Ed.): Events and E-Commerce - Customer Loyalty and Brand Management on the Internet. - Springer: Berlin a. a., 2000. ISBN 3-540-66194-8
• Storyboard for Berlin Connection - an interactive documentary thriller , CD-ROM of the year (c't 25/99)

Web links

• Website Peter Friedrich Stephan
• Literature by and about Peter Friedrich Stephan in the catalog of the German National Library