Friedrich von Borries: “My work focuses on the relationship between design and social development. As a scientist, I try to understand the world. As a designer, I try to change it. That’s why I research and design structures, practices, and technologies that shape our present.”

Friedrich von Borries (*1974) has been Professor of Design Theory at the HFBK Hamburg since 2009.⁠ ⁠His work deliberately moves between science, education, design and artistic practice, and occasionally also experimental entrepreneurship. His work is most productive when these fields come together in complex projects. This is evident, among other things, in:

• his academic book Architecture in the Anthropocene and the accompanying exhibition Heritage of the Future at the Liebling House, Tel Aviv

• the long-term scientific-artistic project Folgenlosigkeit (Consequence) with film, app, exhibition, and novel

• his current research project Redesign Democratic Representation and the associated exhibition at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt (in preparation)

• his start-up Art of X

• his podcast Fantasiemuskel at Monopol

Works by Friedrich von Borries can be found in numerous museum collections, including the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Neue Pinakothek Munich, Museum für angewandte Kunst Vienna, and Bauhaus-Museum Weimar.

He is a liaison lecturer for the Heinrich Böll Foundation and regularly acts as a reviewer for the DFG, SNF, and the Volkswagen Foundation. He has also been a member of the jury for the Social Design Award of DER SPIEGEL magazine for many years.