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📍FRA / BER PhD | Graphic Designer | Writer (he/him)

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I've written the very personal essay »Gay Bombs« on body design and self-design, about hormones, all my inferiority complexes, and the society, that produces them.

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Smart Home. Back in the USSR

Written in German, published in German and English (translated by Nicholas Grindell) in the printed issue of form 270, Mar/Apr 2017

Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten wie Cyber Sovietica von Diana Kurkovsky West und How Not to Network a Nation von Benjamin Peters legen nahe, dass die Erfahrungen, die die Sowjetunion mit Kybernetik und dem Netzwerken gemacht hat, aktuelle Diskussionen um eine datenintensive Zukunft, die Gestaltung von Smart Homes und die Rolle von automatisierten Prozessen in unserer westlichen Gesellschaft bereichern können. Doch welche Rolle spielte Kybernetik in der Sowjetunion? Und was genau können wir von der sowjetischen Vergangenheit für unsere Gegenwart und Zukunft lernen?

Academic studies like Cyber Sovietica by Diana Kurkovsky West and How Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin Peters suggest that the Soviet Union’s experience with cybernetics and networks could enrich the current debate on a data-intensive future, the design of smart homes, and the role of automated processes in our Western society. But what part did cybernetics play in the Soviet Union? And what exactly can we learn from the Soviet past for our own present and future?

(Image: Recommendations for interior decoration. Source: (Kratkaia entsiklopediia domashnego khoziaistva, vol. 1 (A-N) (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe nauchnoe iz-vo "Bol'shaia Sovetskaia entsiklopediia” 208-209.)

Cyber Sovietica Diana Kurkovsky West stellt in ihrer Dissertation die These auf, dass sich der sowjetische Nachkriegsurbanismus auf die Theorie der Kybernetik (das Systematisieren von Organisationsproblematiken mithilfe von Rechnertechnologie) stützte, da Planer und Designer Ideen aus dem Bereich der kybernetischen Steuerung in der Gestaltung räumlicher Systeme anwendeten. So nennt sie die sowjetische Faszination für kybernetische Systeme auch „Cyber Sovietica“.

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Den kompletten Artikel finden Sie in der gedruckten Ausgabe von / Please find the full article in the printed issue of form 270, Mar/Apr 2017.

Main references:

Diana Kurkovsky West, Cyber Sovietica: Planning, Design, and the Cybernetics of Soviet Space, 1954–1986, Princeton: Princeton University, 2013.

Benjamin Peters, How Not to Network a Nation. The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2016.

(Cover image: Moisei Ginzburg and Ignaty Milinis, Narkomfin building, Moscow. Source: opendemocracy.net)

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Forging New Identities

Written in German, published in German and English (translated by Iain Reynolds) in the printed issue of form 274, Nov/Dec 2017.

Hijab and white Nike Air Force sneakers are not mutually exclusive, that’s the message being sent out by the contributors of the Modest Route Instagram account, by Frankfurt-based 21-year-old Amira Haruna and her Ami Coco blog, and by numerous other young women. These women are looking at today’s globalised world and are developing their own identities, without being slaves to lifestyle magazines, fashion chains, custodians of tradition, preachers or anyone else who might try and tell them what they can or cannot wear. Within fashion itself, a number of young designers have broken through with work that aims to give these women yet more scope for self-expression. How is that work helping women to develop their own identities and how are its creators positioning themselves as designers?

– Read the full article in the printed issue of form 274, Nov/Dec 2017.

Image: Iman Aldebe, Eco Luxury, photo by Anton Renborg

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Data Visualisation: Kim Albrecht

Written in German, published in German and English in the printed issue of form 272, Jul/Aug 2017.

“Information design is a very broad field that looks at how we engage with information,” says Kim Albrecht, a data visualisation specialist who has been working as a researcher at Boston’s Center for Complex Network Research since 2015. He defines information design as spanning everything “from brochures to emergency plane landings to railway station signage”. With his focus on data and information visualisations, he aims not only to help people gain access to the sea of digital information, but also to navigate that sea and thus make meaningful use of the available data.

— Read the complete article in the printed issue of form 272, Jul/Aug 2017.

(Cover image: Kim Albrecht, Science Paths)

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Honored to have my project on artificial intelligence featured in #formdesignmagazine "Man vs Machine" issue! Watch the video through the link in bio http://bit.ly/1eJzozr 📠⌚️💻☠ (at Park Slope, Brooklyn, N.Y.)