Dipl.-Des. (FH) Tom Bieling

Research Field:

• Design
• Gender and Design
• Usability
• Information Design
• Participatory Design
• Ideation
• Design Methods

Research Topics:

• Design theory and research
• Design methods, process and strategy
• Design-/User-driven Innovation
• Cultural Practice
• Democratization of knowledge and information
• Design and Didactics
• Process-related analogies of design-referred and social dynamics
• Dialogue and (verbal/nonverbal) communication
• Transfer of analogue to digital communication 

Biography:

Dipl.-Des. (FH) Tom Bieling, born in 1979, studied Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne (Germany) and Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba (Brasil). During his previous professional education as Digital Media Designer he already concentrated on doing Design in its conception as an interdisciplinary manner, whereby he perpetually intensified a research-oriented approach concerning diverse Methods and cultural practices by and through design, especially by means of exploring parameters as (body-) language, signs and social dynamics. Besides numerous project co-operations in the range of Communication-, Graphic- and Information-Design (i.e. for the ministry of culture, federal state of paraná, brasil), he curated and co-developed several design exhibitions (amongst others at the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Köln) and moreover works as a Manager of culture and host of cultural events since the late 1990s. He currently focuses on design-relevant coherence of methodology and didactics (q.v. his diploma key issue Design and Dialogue, 2007) as well as perception of picture, behaviour of reading and information concerning systems of digital communication and display-technologies. Since october 2007 he lives and works in Berlin as a designer and design research scientist at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, where he also is a PhD candidate. He is also founding member of the DRNetwork (Design Research Network). Publications:

• Bieling, Tom: Gender Puppets – Geschlechterinszenierung anhand der nonverbalen Kommunikation von Schaufensterpuppen; Lit Verlag, Juli 2008; ISBN 3825812456
• Monitor Schaufenster – Der Spiegel zur sozialen Gesellschaft           In: ROGER, Nr. 5, 2008. Titelthema: Hidden & Sought

Lectures & Teaching:

• 2007: Two Guest-Lectures at the University of Applied Sciences and Art, Hildesheim (Germany); “Gender Construction in public space” and “Shop-Windows – Monitors of social Society and Behaviour”.  (Master and Bachelor)
• 2007: Guest-Lecture at the University of Applied Sciences and Art, Hildesheim (Germany); “Human vs. Image – Gender and Design”.

Conference Lectures:

• 2008 (Octobre): Questions & Hypotheses; Design Research Network Conference, Berlin
• 2008 (June): The Body Conference, Cardiff, Wales/UK. Body Identities – Body, Language and Performance, The shop window as a mirror of social society
• 2008 (May): Human vs. Image – Mother and Child; ARM Conference, New York City, USA
• 2008 (April): Flexible Genders – Transgressive Bodies; Panel: Gender and Space; International Conference at Humboldt Univeristy, Berlin

Panel Discussions:

• 2008 (May): IDSA Design Research Conference – Research in Focus; Boston, USA
• 2004: reLounge Designgespräch (Mod.) mit Christopher Dell
• 2004: reLounge Designgespräch (Mod.) mit Stefan Sagmeister

Workshops:

• 2008 (April): Die Macht des Design – Design als Strategie für Innovation und Markenerfolg; Design driven innovation – method workshop together with Dr. Gesche Joost at  Management Forum Starnberg, Berlin
• 2007 (December): Two Workshops on Mobile communication together with Dr. Sascha Spors at the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”, Bonn

Design Research Works:

• 2007: Design und Dialog – Design als Fördermodul zur Stimulierung von integrativer Kompetenz vor dem Hintergrund des interkulturellen Dialogs in Deutschland (diploma key issue)
• 2007: Paparazzi 2.0 – Bild-Perzeption und Demokratisierung von Information im Zeitalter von Foto-Handys (diploma)2007: Gender Puppets – Geschlechterinszenierung anhand der nonverbalen Kommunikation von Schaufensterpuppen (diploma)
• 2005: Die schrumpfende Stadt – Infografische Auseinandersetzung mit Ursachen und Auswirkungen urbaner Schrumpfungsprozesse am Standort Deutschland in Bezug auf scheinbare und tatsächliche Objektivität von Wissen und Information (pre-degree key issue)
• 2005: Lesen mit Spannung – Elektronisches Papier und die Transformation von Leseverhalten bei veränderten Medien und Displays (pre-degree) 2005: Hip Hop Cover Art – Inhaltliche und formalästhetische Analyse eines kulturellen Mediums als Zeichensystem (pre-degree)
• 2004: Mediale Möbel – Reflektion utopischer, faktischer und phänomenaler Szenarien in Hinsicht auf die Kombination und Kombinierbarkeit von Medien, Medientechnologien und Möbeln.
• 2003: Populäre Bilderwelt Fankurve – Bildidentitäten in den kommerzialisierten und nichtkommerziellen Sektoren im und um den Profi-Fußball.

Exhibitions (co-curation):

• 2008: 100 days – 100 ideas (Creation Center, Berlin)
• 2005: Got the Look – Graphik der Popmusik; Museum für angewandte Kunst, Köln
• 2004: Sagmeister non.stereo; Exhibition on the work of Stefan Sagmeister; kisd.gallery, Köln
• 2003: Quotidien visual; Exhibition on the work of ruedi baur + integral; kisd.gallery, Köln
• 2003: Fly design; Exhibition on design from cologne at köln-bonn-airport
• 2002: Kiss design; “design concepts for all” contribution on design process

Exhibitions (presenting his work amongst others):

• 2008: New Talents – Design Biennale Cologne (Project-Coop with O.Heydekamp, T.Zelmer, T.Klotsche)
• 2007: From KISD with love
• 2005: Got the Look – Graphik der Popmusik; Museum für angewandte Kunst, Köln

Talks:

• 2003 - 2004: (co-) organising the “reLounge Designgespräche” at kisd.gallery, Köln (u.a. Ruedi Baur, Stefan Sagmeister, Achim Heine, Markus Weissbeck, Peter Zizka, Laurent Lacour, Isabelle Naegele, Christopher Dell, Michael Erlhoff, Michael Gais, Agnes Laube)

Awards and Grants:

• 2008: Nominated for the Lucky Strike Junior Design Award
• 2008: New Talents – Design Biennale Cologne
• 2005: Grant for design studies in Brasil (DAAD)
• 2004: Commerzbank Designpreis, acknowledgment award

Address: Deutsche Telekom AG Laboratories Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 D-10587 Berlin E-Mail: tom.bieling(at)telekom.de