Dr. phil. Judith Marlen Dobler

Judith Marlen Dobler is a design practitioner and researcher. Her research interests include collaborative design practices (especially drawing), designing as experiential knowledge, and design methods in post-disciplinary research. She has multiple qualifications as a cabinetmaker (apprenticeship certificate), communication designer (Diplom FH), design theorist (Master of Arts), and media scholar (Dr. phil.).

In 2024–25, she was a visiting professor for Performative Design Research at the weißensee school of art and design berlin and a Cluster Professor at »Matters of Activity«. Since 2020, she has been a design research coordinator and research associate at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. As a member of several design research associations (dgtf, DRS, cumulus) her engagement lies in academic equality, research ethics, and design justice.

Field
Design Research
Projects
Weaving (Associated Member)
Material Form Function (Associated Member)
Email Address
judith.marlen.dobler [​at​] hu-berlin.de
Website
https://judithdobler.de
ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1400-3638
Address

weißensee kunsthochschule berlin
Bühringstr. 20
13086 Berlin

Publications

Monographs & Books

Dobler, J. 2025. Drawing together: Zeichnen als kollaborative Wissenspraxis. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos Berlin.
https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/drawing_together

Kulick, G., Hohl, M., Dobler, J. 2024. Design Research Incubator. Cairo, Dessau: German University Cairo.
http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/116840

Dobler, J. 2014. Spuren der Erkenntnis: Experimente zwischen Zeichnen und Denken. Kunstpädagogische Positionen, 32, edited by Sabisch, A., Meyer, T., Sturm, E. Hamburg: Hamburg Univ. Press.
https://www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/einrichtungen/ew4/arteducation/40-publikationen-kpp.html

Articles in Edited Volumes

Dobler, J. M., Schon, C. 2025. »Nachdenkliches Scheitern. Lehren aus der digitalen Werkstatt Fotografie.« Hochschulbildung: Lehre und Forschung. In Digitales Lehren und Lernen an der Hochschule: Strategien – Bedingungen – Umsetzung, edited by Mrohs, L., Franz, J., Herrmann, D., Lindner, K., Staake, T. 9, Bielefeld: transcript, 331.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8394-7120-3

Dobler, J. M. 2025. »Drawing by Diffraction.« edited by Beck, P., Le Calvé, M., Stock, R. Berlin: PubPub.
https://doi.org/10.21428/b49345f3.8775d7ad

Dobler, J. M., Schon, C., Huang, R. 2024. »VR Fotostudio – ein experimentelles Lehr-/Lernprojekt im Design und in der Ingenieurinformatik.« In Tagungsband 21. Workshop on E-Learning, edited by Thor, A., Eulitz, M., Hornoff, K., Staudte, C., Stolze, F. S. Leipzig: Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig, 23.
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:l189-qucosa2-920533

Dobler, J. M. 2024. »Collaborative Drawing as Knowledge Practice.« edited by Colonnese, F., Grancho, N., Schaeverbeke, R. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 489–504.

Dobler, J. M. 2021. »›Flatten the Curve‹. The Performative Embodiment of Image, Speech, and Gestures in Scientific Communication from a Design Research Perspective.« NERD. edited by Christensen, M., Michel, R., Jonas, W. Basel – Boston – Berlin: De Gruyter, 24.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783035623666-003/html

Dobler, J. M. 2020. »›Darf ich da reinmalen oder ist das heilig für Dich?‹: Über die visuelle Sprache des Zeichens in der (natur-)wissenschaftlichen Praxis.« edited by Foraita, S., Herlo, B., Vogelsang, A. Bielefeld: transcript, 89.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839451182-009/html

Dobler, J. M. 2019. »Drawing Assemblage.« In Wissenschaftstag der Fakultät für Architektur, edited by Schmitz, T. H., Groninger, H., Neuefeind, A., Lange, C. Aachen: RWTH Aachen University, 22.
https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-2020-01431

Dobler, J. 2014. »Zeichnen, Denken, Schreiben als Prozess. Die Insektendarstellungen von Maria Sybilla Merian.« In Wie Texte und Bilder zusammenfinden, edited by Kroll, R., Gramatzki, S., Karnatz, S. Berlin: Reimer, Dietrich, 171.

Dobler, J. 2013. »Kinderspiele. Visuelle und mediale Dimensionen der Wimmelbilder Ali Mitgutschs.« In Fragwürdiges Bilderbuch: Blickwechsel – Denkspiele – Bildungspotenziale, edited by Kruse, I., Sabisch, A. München: kopaed, 95.

Articles

Asa, P., Dobler, J., Fratzl, P., Farmer, J., Huber, J., Jouy, F., Kang, N., Kesselring, R., Kubelík, A., Krauthausen, K., Mai, I., Noda, S., Neuhäuser, S., Rhein, J., Stock, R., Wolff, K., Dierichs, K. 2025. »Symbiotic Wood.« .able journal, (27)
https://doi.org/10.69564/able.en.25027.symbioticwood

Dobler, J. M. 2016. »Collaborative Imaging. The communicative practice of hand sketching in experimental physics.« Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking, 2 (2016): 997–1011.
https://www.drs2016.org/proceedings

Popplow, L., Dobler, J. M. 2015. »Design for degrowth: Drawing ecologies together.«
https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.045

Dobler, J. 2013. »Experimental Sketching.« Nordes 2013: Experiments in design research. 446.
https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2013.061

Dobler, J. 2013. »Lines and models. Embodied drawing acts.« In Nordes 2013 Exhibition Papers, special issue. Experiments in design research, 9 - 13 June, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and Malmö University, Malmö, Denmark, Sweden. Nordes Conference Series.
https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2013.074

Knowledge Transfer

Exhibitions

Diereichs, K. (curator and contributor), Stiegel, A., Banz, C. (co-curators). Symbiotic Wood. Group Show. Exhibition, Symposium, Roundtable and Tour. Exhibition. The final project of the »More than Human« exhibition series of Kunstgewerbemuseum developed in collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« as part of the ＿matter Festival 2025. With contributions by Pelin Asa, Karola Dierichs, Judith M. Dobler, Tarik Goetzke, Başak Günak, Florent Jouy, Nuri Kang, Rahel Kesselring, Karin Krauthausen, Anna Kubelík, Julia Rhein, Siegfried Saerberg, Robert Stock. Kunstgewerbemuseum. 28 June 2025 - 23 November 2025.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/16077/symbiotic-wood;
Highlighted by ARCH+, Tagesspiegel.

Media Contributions

Press Articles

Bartels, G. (text), Reichel, M., dpa (image). 2025. »Ehrenrettung für den Borkenkäfer im Kunstgewerbemuseum: Zwischen Baum und Borke.« About the Exhibition »Symbiotic Wood«, part of the ＿matter Festival 2025. Tagesspiegel, 27 June 2025.