Moritz Greiner-Petter

Moritz Greiner-Petter is designer and junior researcher at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) and its Critical Media Lab.

As a researcher and practitioner, he is interested in critical approaches towards the media aesthetics and epistemes of information technologies. In his research, he is investigating design paradigms, materialities and epistemologies of digital interfaces and their role in shaping processes of thinking, collaboration and design. His design practice often addresses the generative and infrastructuring effects of media formats, explored through experimental prototypes, tools and publishing formats.

Currently, he is researcher in the SNSF-funded project Commons in Design at the research unit of the Institute Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP).

Moritz has a background in Visual Communication and Digital Media Design and holds a diploma degree from the Berlin University of the Arts.

• Post-Digitale Materialität von Denk- und Gestaltungswerkzeugen in lecture series Post-Digital Materiality at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design (Kiel), 2017
• Kritische Artefakte? Design als Medium der Kritik at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies (Berlin), 2016
• Short Circuit – On Media Reflexivity at Umeå Institute of Design, 2015
• PhD By Design Conference (London), 2015
• Bread and Roses and Data (together with Jamie Allen) at Data Traces Conference (Basel), 2015
• HCI International (Crete), 2014
• Doctoral Colloquium, Design Research Society Conference (Umeå), 2014
• Precise Ambiguities – Denkwerkzeuge zwischen Ordnung und Unordnung at Wild Thing Conference (Berlin), 2013

• »Critical By Design?« Conference, 17–18 May 2018, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel (Co-organizer)

• Co-Lab – A web-based visual-driven tool for collaborative design processes in teaching contexts, teaching and development project together with Christine Schranz, Merle Ibach, and Yann Patrick Martins, funded by “FHNW Lehrfonds” grant, 02/2020–12/2020
• Project course Dwelling with Faceless Interaction, second year MFA Interaction Design at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University, 2015 (guest tutor)

Courses as part of the Critical Media Studies programme, Academy of Art and Design FHNW Basel

• Computer-(r)aided design, Seminar together with Johannes Bruder, 2018
• Die Poetik von Standards und Formaten, Seminar together with Felix Gerloff, 2017
• Design for the real world: Zum Spannungsfeld von Design und Kritik, Seminar together with Claudia Mareis, 2016
• Ambient Displays: Explorative Designprozesse und Evaluationen, Experimental Practice Course together with Jan Torpus and Andreas Simon, 2015
• Vom Code zu interaktiven Objekten. Grundlagen experimenteller Medien, Experimental Practice Course together with Jan Torpus and Andreas Simon, 2014