Wolfgang Jonas (design theorist)

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Wolfgang Jonas (born May 15, 1953 in Gummersbach ) is a German design theorist and shipbuilding engineer with a focus on design research and applied philosophy. From 2010 until his retirement he was professor of design science and from 2015 to 2018 headed the master's program in Transformation Design, which he helped develop, at the Braunschweig University of Art .

Jonas is involved in teaching, countless scientific articles, participation and organization of conferences, and consulting activities on the further development of design science concepts, in particular on the topics of design methodology, systemic and scenario-based approaches, research through design (RTD) and transformation design .

biography

Jonas completed his shipbuilding studies at the Technical University of Berlin from 1971 to 1976 . During his studies he worked as a teaching assistant at the Institute for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, where he worked as an assistant in CAD research projects up to and including 1984.

1977-78 he taught numerical mathematics and problem-oriented programming at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin (today: Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin ). In the same year he completed a postgraduate course in CAD and computer graphics at the TU Berlin . In 1983 he did his doctorate on the computer-aided shape optimization of flow bodies and worked until 1987 as a consultant in the field of CAD for companies in the automotive industry and the German Institute for Standardization ( DIN ).

From 1988 he devoted himself increasingly to design work and research on theories of computer-based design. Until 1992 he was a research assistant at the UdK Berlin (then Hochschule der Künste Berlin), where he taught CAD and computer graphics. In 1992 he switched to the design faculty of the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal and became a research assistant to Siegfried Maser . Jonas taught concept and system design and did research on systems theory and design. After his habilitation in early 1994, he took over the professorship for process design at Burg Giebichtenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, which he held until 2001.

In 2001 he was appointed to the Bremen University of the Arts , where he worked as a professor for design theory at the Institute for Integrated Design. From 2005 to 2010 he moved to Kassel as a professor of design theory at the Kassel Art College.

In 2010 he moved to the Institute for Transportation Design at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig as a professor of design science and also took over its management. There he was involved in the development of the Master’s degree in Transformation Design, which he took over when it was founded in 2015.

Publications (selection)

  • Wolfgang Jonas: Shipbuilding in North Friesland. Husum Druck, Husum 1990, 2nd edition 1998
  • Wolfgang Jonas: Design - System - Theory. Reflections on a systems-theoretical model of design theory. The Blue Owl Publishing House, Essen 1994
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Jan Meyer-Veden (Ed.): Mind the Gap! - On knowing and not-knowing in design. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2004
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Rosan Chow, Niels Verhaag (eds.): Design System Evolution. The Application of Systemic and Evolutionary Approaches in Design Theory, Design Research and Design Education, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the European Academy of Design EAD06. University of the Arts Bremen, 29-31 March 2005, Bremen, Germany
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Rosan Chow, Gesche Joost (eds.): Questions, Hypotheses & Conjectures. Discussions on Projects by Early Stage and Senior Design Researchers. iUniverse, 2010
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Felicidad Romero-Tejedor (ed.): Positions on design science. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Simon Grand (Ed.): Mapping Design Research. Birkhäuser, Basel 2012
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Wolf D. Reuter (eds.), Horst WJ Rittel: Thinking Design : Transdisciplinary concepts for planners and designers. Birkhäuser, Basel 2013
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Sarah Zerwas, Kristof von Anshelm (eds.): Transformation Design: Perspectives on a New Design Attitude. (Board of International Research in Design) Birkhäuser, Basel 2015, ISBN 9783035606362
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Michael Erlhoff (Eds.): NERD - New Experimental Research in Design. Positions and perspectives . Birkhäuser, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3035616804
  • Wolfgang Jonas, Saskia Hebert, Mona Hofmann, Marius Förster (eds.): Un / Certan Futures - Roles of Design in Social Transformation Processes. transcript, Bielefeld 2018

literature

  • Kai Buchholz, Justus Theinert: Design teachings: Ways of German design training. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Transformation Design - HBK University of Fine Arts Braunschweig. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ prof. dr. wolfgang jonas »+ about. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ System administrator: ITD - our team. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jonas, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German design theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach