Faculty Lecturers, Staff, Visiting Guests

Philosoph, seit 2012 Gründer und Leiter des Kollegiums und des philosophischen Buchladens "artes liberales" in Heidelberg. 1956 in den niederrheinischen Provinzen geboren, Studium der Philosophie und Philologie in Bonn und Tübingen, Berater beim Vorstandsvorsitzenden der Frankfurter Flughafengesellschaft (heute Fraport), Lehraufträge an verschiedenen Universitäten und Hochschulen: Merz Akademie Hochschule für Gestaltung Stuttgart, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Freie Universität Berlin, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Buchkunst Leipzig; von 2006 bis 2011/12 in der Leitung des Forschungsinstituts Design2context an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

Publications:
Bellut, Clemens (Hrs.) (2012) Unbestimmt" - ein gestalterischer und philosophischer Reflexionsbegriff. Mit visuellen Beiträgen von Annette Rempp und Ann-Katrin Hallmann. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers

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Johannes Binotto, Dr. phil. (*1977) ist Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftler, Dozent für Film- und Medientheorie, sowie freier Publizist. 

Studium an der Universität Zürich, danach wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Englischen Seminar der Universität Zürich. Promotion mit einer breit angelegten Studie zum Unheimlichen als räumlichem Phänomen in Theorie, bildender Kunst, Literatur und Film (erschienen 2013 bei Diaphanes unter dem Titel TAT/ORT. Das Unheimliche und sein Raum in der Kultur). Danach Vertretungsprofessur am Seminar für Medienwissenschaft der Universität Basel, sowie Lehraufträge an den Universitäten Luzern und Basel. 

Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die vielfältigen Schnittstellen zwischen Film- und Medientheorie, Technikforschung und Psychoanalyse. 

Neben der Dozentur für Filmtheorie an der Hochschule Luzern Design+Kunst forscht Johannes Binotto an der Universität Zürich an seinem, vom Forschungskredit der Universität Zürich geförderten Habilitationsprojekt Mittel der Entstellung: Zu einer Poetik der Filmtechnik.

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Curriculum Vitae
born 1962 in Marburg, Germany

• 2001 Nomination Grimme Preis,  2011 BVK Journalist award,  2016 Hessischer Rundfunk, Television Prize
• From 2010 to now: Focus on documentaries from the Middle East for public German television
• 2005 - 2011 teaching position as lecturer at TU Darmstadt, faculty of film- and media studies
• More than 50 TV Documentaries until today
• 1997 Establishing of Gropperfilm, production company for documentary films, TV formats  and programs
• 1994-97 Freelance work as producer, director and editor for advertising agencies, film productions and tv-channels
• Studies philosophy and history at TU Darmstadt
• Studies of  Filmdesign at Darmstadt University of applied science, Diploma 1993

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Jean-Pierre Grüter is a photographer focused on architecture, landscape and social documentary photography.
After graduating in art education at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts he completed his studies 1992 with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Jean-Pierre Grüter has many years of experience teaching photography and art at different schools.
He is a member of the head team of the Master of Arts in Fine Arts at HSLU D&K where he is responsible for the Major Art Teaching. He teaches Art Education and is doing research in critical art pedagogy. Together with the master students he develops concepts of art education and he supports the students in their practice at different high scools. Beside that he teaches photography at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the master as well as in the bachelor program (AC, Projektmodul, SPA evening courses).
His latest publication as a photographer is titled „Wohnort Autobahn/Abitare l’autostrada“(2009 at Benteli Verlag, Bern). It contains 30 interviews and 30 triptychs of families and partnerships who live very close to the motorway A2 from Lucerne to Milano. The topics of the book are: Mobility, interaction between mobility and quality of live, private and public space, different perception of trafic emissions in different cultures (north and south oft the alps) and in different social classes. The traditional concept of combining three images to a triptych extended with an interview allows to move between public and private needs and spaces and shows a actual conflict in a differentiated way.

Publications:

Grüter, Jean-Pierre (2009) Wohnort Autobahn/Abitare l’autostrada. Bern: Benteli Verlag

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Jorge Hirter studied economics at Columbia University in New York City (B.A.) and at the University of Basel (lic. rer. pol. / M.A.) and completed an MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau. During his international career with Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), Procter & Gamble and Roland Berger he acquired broad hands-on business and management experience. In 2003 he founded Hirter Consulting to provide advisory services to top management in the areas of strategy and organizational design. Since 2007 he lectures in the program Design Management, International, where he is also member of the leadership team. He is fluent in English, Spanish, German and French. His research interests lie in management practices for the next generation of leaders. Design Thinking and related techniques and tools provide very valuable impulses, but the real challenge lies in the development of a fundamentally new body of management thought.

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Brian Paul Lamotte (b. 1984, San Francisco, USA) is an independent graphic designer & publisher focused on art and photography books. Educated in graphic design at London’s Central St. Martins, he established his creative practice in New York and has recently relocated to Zurich. His process-based practice relies on a close collaboration with artists and editors and often emphasizes print production and hand-done finishing and binding. Previously, he published & designed artists’ books, monographs & zines under PWP (formerly Pau Wau Publications) with photographer Andreas Laszlo Konrath. He has designed and produced books for select publishers including; Aperture Foundation, Dashwood Books, Edition Patrick Frey, Ithaca Image Text Press, Meta/Books (Delphine Bedel), Rizzoli, SPBH Editions (Self Publish, Be Happy). His work is part of the collections of: the International Center for Photography, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library, The Getty Research Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library and the Yale University Library Special Collections.

In 2015 his installation-based vending machine, ZINE TIME, was included and acquired by the MoMA New York as part of The Newsstand within the exhibition “Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015”. The project was also exhibited and activated for the exhibition “Being Modern: MoMA in Paris” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2017. Most recently two of the books he designed, My Birth by Carmen Winant and Khichdi (Kitchari) by Nick Sethi, were shortlisted for the 2018 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards for PhotoBook of the Year and First PhotoBook respectively.

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Katharina
Lütscher, born 1968  in Zurich Switzerland was trained as a commercial photographer. Early in her career, she worked for national and international magazines. Katharina specialized in portrait and editorial photography, She has portrayed many musicians, writers
 and business people. She has worked as an advertising photographer for campaigns of different Swiss banks and insurance companies.

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the birth of her two children she follows and enjoys working in children’s fashion and advertising.

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the past 15 years she has been following her own work as an art photographer which has been displayed in exhibitions in and around Zurich.

Katharina
lives and works in Zurich.

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Johanna Lier is a poet and a journalist. She has published several volumes of poetry. Her latest, “ich denke so what". in englischer sprache "ich denke so what” was published by Babylon Verlag, Zurich Baghdad 2007. At various international festivals she has appeared in spoken word performances. Her plays “fabrics” and “we always bang bang. sorry for that” have been premiered in Switzerland. She writes for Switzerlands leading daily paper “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” and the weekly “Wochenzeitung”. Doing research for her projects she has traveled and lived for longer periods of time in Iran, Nigeria, Chile, Ukraine, Israel and Argentine. She has won numerous awards and scholarships for her writing. Just having finished her first novel “Das Glück”, she is currently working on a second larger project in prose. She teaches at the F+F School of Art and Media Design and at the Universities of the Arts in Bern, Zurich and Lucerne. She is a member of the writer’s network TeppichTeppich and president of Swissculture.

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Publications:
Lier, Johanna (2007) so what in englischer sprache ich denke so what. Babylon, Zurich / Bagdad

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Studien der Ethnologie in München und Berlin, Design und Medien in Friedrichshafen und Zürich. Autorin, Journalistin, Moderatorin. Artikel und Interviews in diversen Fachpublikationen. Durchführung und Leitung von Forschungsprojekte. Dozentin an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) für Urbane Identität und Design, Designtheorie.
Interessenschwerpunkt sind Dialogformen als Methode der Erklärung, Analyse und Versprachlichung in den Bereichen Urbane Gestaltung, Architektur und Design. Zurzeit etabliert sie einen Debattierclub (ab 2015) für die Vertiefung Industriedesign an der ZHdK.

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Publications:
Marc Angélil, Jorg Himmelreich (Ed.) (2012) Architecture Dialogues. Sulgen: Niggli Verlag

(AGPS Hrsg.) Bratton, Denise; Doerfler, Verena; Enderle, Claude; Helbling, Andrea; Von Lupin, Margarete; Muschg, Benjamin (2011) BLICKWECHSEL, 17 Kurzgeschichten über Architektur. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess

Diverse Buchbeiträge und Artikel. U.a. in ARCH+

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Uwe H. Martin is a visual storyteller and multimedia producer at the Bombay Flying Club. He is mainly working on long-term, in-depth, documentary projects around the world that combine photography with documentary film, text and sound. Currently he focuses on a set of multimedia documentaries about the global commons water, seed and land: White Gold investigates the social and environmental effects of global cotton production, while his new visual research project LandRush analyses the impact of large-scale agro-investments on rural economies and landrights around the world. Both series are part of the collaborative art and research project World Of Matter. In 2010 he founded Aggreys Dream, a project supporting a school in a slum in Mombasa, Kenya, which became the blueprint for the establishing of the Freelens Foundation.
Uwe H. Martin studied photojournalism at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover, Germany and with the support of a Fulbright grant at the Missouri School of Journalism (USA). Besides his photographic practice Uwe H. Martin has many years of experience teaching photojournalism and multimedia storytelling at the Akademie für Publizistik in Hamburg, the FH Bielefeld, the Henri-Nannen-Schule and the HFK Bremen as well as the Freelens Multimedia Workshops.
In September 2013 Uwe H. Martin has been senior lecturer in the Camera Arts program at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Art and Design and teaching at the interface of photography and moving image.

Projects:
World of Matter – International art and media project investigating primary materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. Beyond a traditional notion of raw materials as resource for humans, the project directs a deeper attention to the situated materialities of stuff like gold, rice, oil, fish, land or water and the intricate multi-species entanglements within which they emerge. (2011-2014)

Landrush – The ongoing visual research project LandRush analyses the impact of large-scale agro investments on rural economies and land-rights, the boom of renewable fuels, the reallocation of land and the future of agriculture around the world. (since 2011)

White Gold – This project investigates the social and environmental effects of global cotton production. (2007-2012)

Aggreys Dream – Documentary project that documents the hopes, dreams and daily struggle of everyday people living in a poor neighbourhood in Mombasa. (since 2010)

Sleeping Through the Day – This initiative follows the daily life of people suffering from Narcolepsy. (2005/2006)

Tales from Bangladesh – Essayistic exploration of the daily life in Bangladesh and its vast delta region. (2000-2008)

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Imanuel Schipper is senior research fellow at Leuphana Lüneburg University.
He is head of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funded research project „Re/Occupation. Designing Public Spheres in Urban Space by Theatrical Interventions.“ Between September 2009 and November 2010 he was also head of the SNSF funded research project “Longing for Authenticity. A Critical Analysis of the Term and the Actual Practice in the Context of Contemporary Staging.“ He has dealt with strategies of construction and staging for several years. He has, on numerous occasions, worked as a dramaturge for the theatre collective Rimini Protokoll and developed, together with the collective, a contemporary way of documentary theatre.
Imanuel Schipper works on the interface between scientific research, teaching, and artistic practice. He works to analyse such terms as 'theatricality', 'performativity', 'dramaturgy', 'staging', 'reception' and 'mediality' – coming from the theatre studies – beyond the boundaries of the theatre, for example in design, urban design, scenography and curation.
He has participated as curator and dramaturge in theatrical/performative interventions in public spaces, including (amongst others).

Projects:
Longing for Authenticity (SNSF research, 2009-2010)
Re/Occupation. Designing Public Spheres in Urban Space by Theatrical Interventions (SNSF research)
reART:theURBAN conference (2012)

Theatre projects:
Re-Location, Sanatorium am Schiffbau Zürich, together with Matthias von Hartz
City of Abstracts, with William Forsythe
Hot Spots – ímoun ethó, Athens with Rimini Protokoll

Publications:
City, Arts and Public Spaces. Online article by Imanuel Schipper, Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

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Studied ‘Audiovisual Arts’ at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and completed a MA study ‘Composition for Film’, Theatre and Media’ at the Zurich University of the Arts. He followed courses and internships in Max/MSP, physical computing, acoustics, scenography, 3D-animation, video editing, composing / arranging.
Projects which he has developed comprise exhibitions (installations, photography, sound); music and sound for dance, video, radio play, theatre; and records and concerts with electronic music. He was part of the electronic music label collective ‘Spezialmaterial’.
Further more he worked as a designer for infographics and multimedia content for news media. Since 2009 he focuses on sound design and composition for animation, fiction and documentary films. He works at his own sound studio Magnetix in Zurich. He teaches sounddesign at the Lucerne School of Art and Design, Animation department. Lives and works in Zurich.

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Admitted to the bar in 1992. Subsequently worked as a state prosecutor, as an assistant at the Institute of Economic Law at the University of Bern and as an attorney specialised in intellectual property law in a well-known Zurich law firm. 1996 LL.M. (University of London) in International Intellectual Property Law. Since 1993, lecturing in law at the School of Engineering and Information Technology (BFH-TI) in Bern. 2001 Dr. iur. with a thesis on design protection. Author of numerous articles in learned journals and co-author of a commentary on Swiss and international design law.

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Michael Wagner is an architect and urbanist based in Switzerland. He has worked in several architecture and urban design offices before co-founding Wagner Vanzella Architects, an office for architecture and urban design in Zurich. He is a lecturer, researcher and teacher at the Institute for urban design of the ETH Zurich, where he is responsible for the research group 'Kulturlandschaft' at the chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse. Michael Wagner also lectures at the University of Liechtenstein on the challenges of regenerative urban design based on renewable energies. His fields of interest include land use negotiation processes and their results on spatial and urban design as well as the creation of synergies by coordinating issues of settlement, infrastructure, energy production and landscape for the development of sustainable medium dense urban territories.

Projects:
Zernez Energia, 2020, ETH Zürich, 2013-today
Kulturlandschaft, ETH Zürich, 2012-today
Ulrich Müther Schalenkonstruktionen, Exhibition Architekturforum Zürich, 2009

Publications:
Wagner, Michael; Lämmler, Rachel (2009) Ulrich Müther Schalenbauten in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Sulgen: Niggli

WagnerVanzella
ETH Chair of Architecture and Urban Design

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