About Us
The Institute of Design Research IDR is one of four institutes at the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB. It is the largest of its kind in the German-speaking world. Interdisciplinary teams analyse the various forms of designed communication in five research fields and one project field.
Organisation
Co-Head of Institute of Design Research
Arne Scheuermann
Co-Head of Institute of Design Research
Paola Pierri
Assistance
Ambre Bork
Operational Assistance
Marie-Eve von Allmen
Co-ordinator Research Field „Critical Knowledge Design”
Max Frischknecht
Co-ordinator Research Field „Social Design”
Paola Pierri
Co-ordinator Research Field „Design and Rhetoric”
Arne Scheuermann
Co-ordinator Research Field „Design History”
Robert Lzicar
Co-ordinator Project Field „Entrepreneurship and Creative Economies” ECE
Catalina Jossen Cardozo
Partnerships
The Bern Academy of the Arts HKB is a member of the Swiss Design Network SDN, the national competence network of Swiss universities of applied sciences. IDR staff are involved in the German Society for Design Theory and Research DGTF and other national and international organisations. They also work as experts for the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, the German Research Foundation DFG and other research and educational institutions.
