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Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Stephan Günzel, Programme Director of New Media Design at the UE, Campus Berlin. Visit us to know more!

Subject area: Visual & spatial studies
Campus: Berlin Room 1.29
Consultation by: appointment
Websites: www.stephan-guenzel.de

Prof. Dr. Günzel is Programme Director for New Media Design at UE Berlin. His expertise lies in Media Theory, Spaces, Photography, and Philosophy, which supports his teaching in the fields of Game Design, History of Art and Design, History of Photography, Media Theory, Film/Motion History and more at UE Berlin. Prof. Günzel is the coordinator of the Institute of Design Research which now focuses on the projects the colleagues are doing outside the university to bring into the university and encourage what they are doing outside of research and turn it into research.

  • since 2016: Head of Institute for Design Research (IF)
  • 2014–2016: Head of Programme Game Design
  • since 2011: Professor for Theory at University of Europe for Applied Sciences (former BTK)
  • 2010: Visiting professor at HKFZ, Universität Trier
  • 2009–2010: Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, Universität Klagenfurt
  • 2009: Visiting professor at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 2008–2010: Research assistant at IKM and coordinator of the Digital Games Research Center at Universität Potsdam
    and Lecturer for the study programme European Media Studies at FH Potsdam
  • 2008–2009: Interim professor at the Institute for Media Studies, Universität Basel
  • 2007–2009: Lecturer for the study programme Space Strategies at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
  • 2005–2007: Research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  • 2002–2005: Lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  • 2002–2004: Post-doctoral fellow at Winkelmann-Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 1998–2000: Research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  • 1992–1997: studied Philosophy, Sociology, and Psychology in Bamberg, Manchester, and Magdeburg
  • 1971: born in Coburg