Unteidig Andreas HSLU DFK

Dr. Andreas Unteidig Andreas Unteidig

Co-lead MA Eco-Social Design

Unteidig Andreas HSLU DFK

Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art​

Nylsuisseplatz 1
6020 Emmenbrücke


MA Design

Co-lead MA Eco-Social Design

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Biography

Andreas Unteidig is a design researcher working at the intersection of academia and applied research.

At HSLU, he co-leads the MA Eco-Social Design and conducts research projects on socio-ecological transformation. Andreas also serves as co-director of the Social Design Network and as a board member of the German Society for Design Theory & Research (DGTF).

Previously, he co-directed the MA program in Transformation Design at Braunschweig University of the Arts (HBK) and led the “Inequality and Digital Sovereignty” research group at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, where he remains an affiliated researcher.

Andreas has consulted for organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, Bank für Sozialwirtschaft, Instagram, WhatsApp, and GIZ. He holds a Dr. Phil. from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and studied design at the Köln International School of Design (KISD) and Parsons/The New School.

Projects

Research projects

  • IDN - Eco-Social Design for Urban Sustainability Transitions
  • Collaborative Exploration in Eco-Social Design: Fostering Cross-Cultural Insights (XPLORE-ESD)
  • PhD Programme ‘Eco-Social Innovation by Design’

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Book/catalogue

  • Herlo, Bianca; Irrgang, Daniel; Joost, Gesche & Unteidig, Andreas (Hrsg.). (2021). Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
  • Joost, Gesche; Bredies, Katharina; Christensen, Michelle; Conradi, Florian & Unteidig, Andreas (Hrsg.). (2016). Design as research: Positions, arguments, perspectives. Basel: Birkhäuser.

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Keysar, Hagit; Calderón-Lüning, Elizabeth & Unteidig, Andreas (2022). Publication Preview Source Prototypes as agents of transition: The case of DIY wireless technology for advancing community digital sovereignty. Journal for Peer Production, 2022(15: Transition), 1.
  • Calderón-Lüning, Elizabeth; Domínguez Cobreros, Blanca; Joost, Gesche & Unteidig, Andreas (2017). Digital commons, urban struggles and the role of Design. The Design Journal, 20(Sup1), 3106-3120.

Publications and presentations - Article, review; not peer reviewed

  • Zoels, Jan-Christoph; Fink, Karin & Unteidig, Andreas (2023). Three Choices. Nummer 11: Update Available. Transforming Education in Design, Film and Fine Arts, 94-96.

Publications and presentations - Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

  • Hebert, Saskia & Unteidig, Andreas (2021). How to Act. In Michael Erlhoff; Maziar Rezai (Hrsg.), Design and Democracy. Activist Thoughts and Examples for Political Empowerment. (S. 95-103). Basel: Birkhäuser.
  • Joost, Gesche & Unteidig, Andreas (2015). Design and social change: The changing environment of a discipline in flux. In Wolfgang Jonas (Hrsg.), Transformation Design. Perspectives on a New Design Attitude. (S. 134-148). Basel: Birkhäuser.

Publications and presentations - Theses (Bachelor/Master/Dissertation/Habilitation)

  • Unteidig, Andreas (2018). Vom Werk zum Werkzeug. Zur Rolle des Designs im Kontext politischen Handelns.. Dissertation, Universität der Künste Berlin, Deutschland.