Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis

Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis is an expert for Design as well as Cultural History and Theory. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Design and History of Knowledge at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität of Berlin.
Her research interests include history, theory and methodology of design in the 20th century, knowledge cultures in design, experimental design and media practices, cultural history of creativity, design and material politics.
After initial training in Graphic Design, she studied Design, Art and Cultural Studies in Zurich, Berlin and Linz. Research and teaching positions subsequently took her to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the University of the Arts Berne, the University of Basel, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge/MA, and the Vilnius Academy of Art, among others.
From 2013 to 2021, she directed the Institute for Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) as well as the Critical Media Lab at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel. At IXDM she has built up a pioneering interdisciplinary research group converging Design, Media Arts, Anthropology, Historical Studies, and Technology.
As a member of several leading design research associations in Germany and Switzerland, Claudia Mareis has excellent networks in the field of Design Research. From 2016 to 2020 she was the vice president of the Swiss Design Network (SDN), and from 2008 to 2021 she was a board member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF). From 2018 to 2021, she represented the field of Design and Art Research as a member of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Claudia Mareis is Co-Director of »Matters of Activity« and co-leads the Cluster with Horst Bredekamp, Peter Fratzl, and Director Wolfgang Schäffner.
Member of the Executive Board
Symbolic Material (Principal Investigator)
Material Form Function (Cluster Professor)
Symbolic Material (Cluster Professor)
Cluster of Excellence
»Matters of Activity«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophienstr. 22a
10178 Berlin
Monographs & Books
Mareis, C. 2025. Operationale Kreativität. Genealogie und Kritik kreativitätsmethodischer Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript (forthcoming).
Mareis, C. 2023. Théories du design – Une introduction. Preface by Claire Brunet and Emanuele Quinz. Postface by Guy Julier. Translated from the German by Maxime Le Calvé. Trans. of Theorien des Designs zur Einführung. Dijon: Les presses du réel.
Mareis, C., Rottmann, M. 2020. Entwerfen mit System. Studienhefte Problemorientiertes Design, 10, Hamburg: Adocs.
Mareis, C. 2014. Theorien des Designs zur Einführung. (Third corrected edition, 2022). Hamburg: Junius.
https://www.junius-verlag.de/Programm/Theorien-des-Designs-zur-Einfuehrung.html
Dombois, F., Bauer, U. M., Mareis, C., Schwab, M. (eds.) 2012. Intellectual Birdhouse: Artistic Practice as Research. London: Walther König.
Mareis, C. 2011. Design als Wissenskultur: Interferenzen zwischen Design- und Wissensdiskursen seit 1960. Bielefeld: transcript.
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Perraudin, L., Winkler, C., Mareis, C., Held, M. eds. 2023. Material Trajectories. Designing With Care? Lüneburg: meson press.
https://doi.org/10.14619/2201
Mareis, C., Greiner-Petter, M., Renner, M. eds. 2022. Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions. Bielefeld: transcript.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839461044
Mareis, C., Paim, N. eds. 2021. Design Struggles. Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives. PLURAL, 3. Amsterdam: Valiz.
https://www.valiz.nl/images/DesignStruggles-DEF_978-94-92095-88-6single-28September22-VALIZ-def.pdf
Blümle, C., Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. eds. 2020. Visuelle Zeitgestaltung. Bildwelten des Wissens. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik. Berlin: De Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110565423
Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. eds. 2018. Wild Thing. Unordentliche Prozesse in Design und Wissenschaft. Berlin: Kadmos.
Mareis, C. (eds.) ed. 2016. Designing Thinking. Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960. München: Fink Verlag.
Schmitz, T., Häußling, R., Mareis, C., Groninger, H. eds. 2016. Manifestationen im Entwurf. Design – Architektur – Ingenieurwesen. Bielefeld: transcript.
Himmelsbach, S., Mareis, C. eds. 2015. Poetics and Politics of Data. Ambivalenz des Lebens in der Datengesellschaft. Basel: Christoph-Merian-Verlag.
Mareis, C., Held, M., Joost, G. (eds.) eds. 2013. Wer gestaltet die Gestaltung? Praxis, Theorie und Geschichte des partizipatorischen Designs. Bielefeld: transcript.
Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. (eds.) eds. 2013. Long Lost Friends. Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Design-, Medien- und Wissenschaftsforschung. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes.
Mareis, C., Joost, G., Kimpel, K. eds. 2010. Entwerfen. Wissen. Produzieren. Designforschung im Anwendungskontext. Bielefeld: Transcript 2010.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Mareis, C. 2025. »Design und Wissenschaft.« In Handbuch Designwissenschaft: Geschichte – Theorie – Praxis, edited by Ruf, O., Hensel, T., Grabbe , L. C. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
Mareis, C. 2024. »Rubber Frictions: Material Legacies beyond the 1851 Great Exhibition.« In Toward a New Culture of the Material, edited by Bauer, F., Kim, Y., Marienberg, S., Schäffner, W. Berlin: De Gruyter, 193–222.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714883-015
Löffler, P., Mareis, C., Sprenger, F. 2023. »Series Foreword: Future Ecologies.« In Material Trajectories. Designing With Care?, edited by Perraudin, L., Winkler, C., Mareis, C., Held, M. Lüneburg: meson press, 9-10.
https://doi.org/10.14619/2201
Mareis, C., Held, M. 2023. »Preface.« In Material Trajectories. Designing With Care?, edited by Perraudin, L., Winkler, C., Mareis, C., Held, M. Lüneburg: meson press, 11-14.
https://doi.org/10.14619/2201
Mareis, C. 2023. »Material Legacies (Vorwort).« In Material Legacies. DESIGN LAB #13, edited by Büsse, M., Winberg, A., Pinto, H. Berlin: Kunstgewerbemuseum, 3-4.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/files/Material_Legacies_booklet.pdf
Mareis, C., Greiner-Petter, M., Renner, M. 2022. »Critical by design? An introduction.« In Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, edited by Mareis, C., Greiner-Petter, M., Renner, M. 8-31.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839461044-001
Mareis, C., Pinto, H., Winberg, A., De Visscher, E. 2022. »Rubber Violence.« In Material Legacies. DESIGN LAB #13, edited by Büsse, M., Winberg, A., Pinto, H. Berlin: Kunstgewerbemuseum, 6-7.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/files/Material_Legacies_booklet.pdf
Mareis, C., Renner, M., Greiner-Petter, M. 2022. »Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions.« In Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, edited by Mareis, C., Greiner-Petter, M., Renner, M. Bielefeld: Transcript, 8–31.
Mareis, C., Schaffner, W., Fratzl, P., Bredekamp, H. 2022. »Afterword.« edited by Ribault, P. Berlin, Boston: Birkhäuser, 369-372.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035622447
Mareis, C. 2022. »From Invisible Design to Post-Optimal Objects. Interface Design and Discourses of Dematerialization since circa 1960.« In Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. Philosophies of Making, edited by Ribault, P. Basel: Birkhäuser, 147-158.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035622447-011
Mareis, C., Paim, N. 2021. »Design Struggles. An Attempt to Imagine Design Otherwise.« In Design Struggles. Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives, edited by Mareis, C., Paim, N. Amsterdam: Valiz, 11-22.
https://www.valiz.nl/images/DesignStruggles-DEF_978-94-92095-88-6single-28September22-VALIZ-def.pdf
Mareis, C. 2021. »Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty: Encounters between Design and Science in the Post-war Period.« In Against and for Method: Revisiting Architectural Design as ResearchAgainst and for Method: Revisiting Architectural Design as Research, edited by Silberberger, J. GTA Verlag, 87-114.
https://doi.org/10.54872/gta/4550-05
Mareis, C. 2020. »Die Zeitlichkeit des Entwerfens. Visuelle Prozessmodelle und ihre temporale Bedeutung.« In Visuelle Zeitgestaltung, edited by Blümle, C., Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. Bildwelten des Wissens. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik, 15. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 114–123.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110565423
Mareis, C. 2020. »Kreatives Problemlösen. Entwurfsdebatten im Kontext von Designmethodologie und Kreativitätsforschung.« In Entwerfen mit System, edited by Mareis, C., Rottmann, M. Studienhefte Problemorientiertes Design, 10. Hamburg: adocs, 25-120.
Mareis, C. 2019. »Archetyp und Alltagsding.« In Objekte der Begierde. Surrealismus und Design 1924 – heute, edited by Kries, M., Coles, A., Fijalkowski, A., Cunz, T., Mareis, C., Sacchetti, V. Vitra Design Museum, 48-59.
Mareis, C. 2019. »Sensations of the Ordinary. Das Bild der Dinge zwischen Geschichte und Projektion.« In Objekte der Begierde. Surrealismus und Design 1924 – heute. Ausstellungskatalog Vitra Design Museum. Weil a. Rhein, edited by Kries, M. 283–305.
Mareis, C. 2019. »Systematisieren. Entwerfen um 1960. Methodische Objektivität zwischen Kalkül und Intuition.« In Experimentieren. Vergleich experimenteller Kulturen in Wissenschaft und Gestaltung, edited by Marguin, S., Rabe, H., Schäffner, W., Schmidgall, F. Bielefeld: transcript, 325–340.
Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. 2018. »Wilde Dinge machen. Neue Perspektiven auf Design und Wissenschaft.« In Wild Thing. Unordentliche Prozesse in Design und Wissenschaft, edited by Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. Berlin: Kadmos, 9-22.
Mareis, C. 2018. »Brainstorming.« In Verhaltensdesign. Technologische und ästhetische Programme der 1960er und 1970er Jahre, edited by Moser, J., Vagt, C. Bielefeld: transcript, 193-210.
Mareis, C. 2018. »Creativity Techniques.« In The Creativity Complex. A Companion to Contemporary Culture, Bielefeld: transcript, 98-103.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445099-015
Mareis, C. 2018. »Design.« In The Creativity Complex. A Companion to Contemporary Culture, edited by Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. Bielefeld: Transcript, 120–125.
Mareis, C. 2018. »Drawing on Methods: Ansätze, Konzepte, Methoden am Institut Experimentelle Design- und Mediengestaltung.« In Archives Values Futures, edited by Langkilde, K. M. Bielefeld: Christoph Merian Verlag, 166-175.
Mareis, C. 2018. »Kreativitätstechniken.« In Werkzeuge des Entwerfens. Ein Abecedarium des kreativen Handelns, edited by Wittmann, B. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 93-106.
Mareis, C., Allen, J. 2017. »Medienlabore als gestalterische Experimentier- und Forschungsräume.« In Poetry of the Real, edited by Langkilde, K. M. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 171-187.
Mareis, C. 2017. »'Designerly Ways of Knowing' The Impertinent Promise of an Epistemic Culture of Design.« Exh. cat. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. In +ultra. knowledge & gestaltung, edited by Doll, N., Bredekamp, H., Schäffner, W. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 71-77.
Mareis, C. 2017. »Unsichtbares Design und post-optimale Objekte. Interfacedesign und Entmaterialisierungsdiskurse seit circa 1960.« In Gehäuse: Mediale Einkapselungen, Paderborn: Brill | Fink, 91-114.
https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846760192_006
Allen, J., Bruder, J., Mareis, C. 2016. »Why Is It So Hard to Describe Experience? Why Is It So Hard to Experience Description? Grounding an Exhibition for AIME at ZKM.« In Reset Modernity, edited by Latour, B. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 496-515.
Mareis, C. 2016. »Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960.« In Designing Thinking: Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960, edited by Mareis, C. München: Fink, 9-37.
Mareis, C. 2016. »Design and Sciences.« In The Intrinsic Logic of Design, edited by Rölli, M., Buurman, G. Sulgen: Niggli, 90-98.
Mareis, C. 2016. »Designerly Ways of Knowing. Potentiale und Zumutungen einer Wissenskultur des Designs.« Exh. Cat. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. In +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen, edited by Doll, N., Bredekamp, H., Schäffner, W. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 75-82.
Mareis, C. 2016. »Design the Future – Mind the Past.« In Manifestationen im Entwurf: Design – Architektur – Ingenieurwesen, edited by Schmitz, T., Häußling, R., Mareis, C., Groninger, H. Bielefeld: transcript, 95-112.
Mareis, C. 2016. »Design und Wissenschaft: Methodenkrisen und die Paradoxie der Rationalität.« In Eigenlogik des Designs, edited by Rölli, M., Buurman, G. Sulgen: Niggli, 89-99.
Mareis, C. 2016. »Design und Wissenschaft: Methodenkrisen und die Paradoxie der Rationalität.« In Eigenlogik des Designs, edited by Rölli, M., Buurman, G. Zürich: Niggli, 89-99.
Mareis, C. 2016. »Doing Research: Design Research in the Context of the 'Practice Turn'.« In Design as Research: Positions, Arguments, Perspectives, edited by Joost, G., Bredies, K., Christensen, M., Conradi, F., Unteidig, A. Basel: Birkhäuser, 35-41.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035607383-006
Mareis, C. 2015. »Das Ende der Anschaulichkeit. Künstlerisch-gestalterische Strategien im Umgang mit Big Data.« In Poetics and Politics of Data. Ambivalenz des Lebens in der Datengesellschaft, edited by Himmelsbach, S., Mareis, C. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 43-61.
http://hdl.handle.net/11654/11661
Mareis, C. 2015. »Design Research and ›Mode 2‹ Knowledge Production.« In The Dynamic Library: Organizing Knowledge at the Sitterwerk, Precedents and Possibilities, edited by Roth, A., Schutz, M. Chicago: Soberscove Press, 108-112.
Mareis, C. 2015. »Die Vermessung der Imagination: Kreativität notieren um 1960.« In Notationen in kreativen Prozessen, edited by Czolbe, F., Magnus, D. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 59-84.
Mareis, C. 2015. »Vom ›richtigen ‹Gebrauch des Materials. Materialästhetische Designtheorien um 1900.« In Ästhetik der Materialität, edited by Heibach, C., Rohde, C. München: Fink, 245-264.
Greiner-Petter, M., Mareis, C. 2014. »Reframing Design under Technical Conditions.« In Design, User Experience, and Usability. Theories, Methods, and Tools for Designing the User ExperienceLecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by Marcus, A. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 96-103.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07668-3_10
Mareis, C. 2014. »Designforschung.« In Handbuch Medienwissenschaft, edited by Schröter, J. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 547-552.
Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. 2013. »Einleitung. Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Design-, Medien- und Wissenschaftsforschung.« In Long Lost Friends. Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Design-, Medien- und Wissenschaftsforschung, edited by Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 9-20.
Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. 2013. »nleitung. Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Design-, Medien- und Wissenschaftsforschung.« In Long Lost Friends. Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Design-, Medien- und Wissenschaftsforschung, edited by Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 9-20.
Mareis, C. 2013. »Eine multidisziplinäre Geschichte. Designforschung, Kreativitätstechniken und Methodenfragen.« In Long Lost Friends. Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Design-, Medien- und Wissenschaftsforschung, edited by Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. Zürich: Diaphanes, 205-222.
Mareis, C. 2013. »Wissen gestalten: Ansichten zu Design als Wissenskultur.« In Design Kulturen, edited by Milev, Y. Volume 5. Fink, 299-310.
Mareis, C. 2013. »Zur Rolle von Design in (gegen-)kulturellen Theorien und Praktiken.« In Die Geschichte des nachhaltigen Designs, edited by Fuhs, K.-S. et al. Bad Homburg: VAS, 230-241.
Mareis, C., Dombois, F., Bauer, U. M., Schwab, M. 2012. »Artistic Practice as Research.« In Intellectual Birdhouse. Artistic Practice as Research, edited by Mareis, C., Dombois, F., Bauer, U. M., Schwab, M. London: Walther König, 9-14.
Mareis, C. 2012. »: Systematisierte Innovationen. Entdecken und Erfinden in Fritz Zwickys Morphologischem Weltbild.« In Wissenskulturen. Bedingungen wissenschaftlicher Innovation, edited by Müller, H., Eßer, F. Studien des Aachener Kompetenzzentrums für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 12. Kassel: Kassel University Press, 43-66.
Mareis, C. 2012. »Quadratisch, praktisch, gut: Zur Erfolgsgeschichte des morphologischen Kastens.« In Verpackungen des Wissens. Reihe Maske und Kothurn, edited by Windgätter, C. Wien: Böhlau, 109-121.
Mareis, C. 2012. »Wissenskulturen im Design. Zwischen systematisiertem Entwurf und reflektierter Praxis.« In Das Design der Gesellschaft: Zur Kultur¬soziologie des Designs, edited by Moebius, S., Prinz, S. transcript, 183-204.
Mareis, C. 2012. »Your Creative Power: Zur Ökonomie von Kreativitätsdiskursen in der Nachkriegszeit.« In Ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, edited by Echterhölter, A., Kammerer, D., Ladewig, R. 3. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, 77-84.
Mareis, C. 2011. »Design als Wissenskultur. Zum Stand der Forschung.« In Design theoretisch. Entwerfen, planen, forschen, edited by Bauer, B. Kassel University Press, 10-27.
Mareis, C. 2011. »Methodische Imagination. Kreativitätstechniken, Geschichte und künstlerische Forschung.« In Kunstforschung als ästhetische Wissenschaft. Beiträge zur transdisziplinären Hybridisierung von Wissenschaft und Kunst, edited by Tröndle, M., Warmers, J. Bielefeld: transcript, 203-242.
Dombois, F., Mareis, C., Ofosu, Y., Scheuermann, A. 2010. »Kunst als Forschung – eine Grundlegung.« In Neuland. Ein Grundlagen¬projekt zur künstlerischen Forschung, edited by Dombois, F. et al. Hochschule der Künste Bern, 9-24.
Mareis, C., Ofosu, Y. 2010. »Eine Studie zur internationalen Situation der praxisgeleiteten Doktorate an (europäischen) Kunsthochschulen.« In Neuland. Ein Grundlagenprojekt zur künstlerischen Forschung, edited by Dombois, F. et al. Hochschule der Künste Bern, 25-54.
Mareis, C. 2010. »Entwerfen. Wissen. Produzieren. Einleitung.« In Entwerfen. Wissen. Produzieren. Designforschung im Anwendungskontext, edited by Mareis, C., Joost, G., Kimpel, K. Bielefeld: transcript, 9-32.
Mareis, C. 2010. »Experimente zu einer Theorie der Praxis. Historische Etappen der Designforschung in der Nachfolge des Bauhauses.« In kunsttexte.de. Themenheft 1: Kunst und Design, edited by Gora, J. 14 pages.
https://doi.org/10.48633/ksttx.2010.1.87744
Mareis, C. 2010. »Interferenzen zwischen Designwissenschaft und Wissenschafts¬forschung.« In Positionen zur Designwissenschaft, edited by Jonas, W., Romero-Tejedor, F. Kassel University Press, 179-181.
Mareis, C. 2010. »The ›Nature‹ of Design. Konzeptionen einer impliziten Wissenskultur.« In Entwerfen – Wissen – Produzieren. Designforschung im Anwendungskontext, edited by Mareis, C., Joost, G., Kimpel, K. Bielefeld: transcript, 121-143.
Mareis, C. 2010. »Unstete Grenzen der Designwissenschaft.« In Positionen zur Designwissenschaft, edited by Jonas, W., Romero-Tejedor, F. Kassel University Press, 90-94.
Mareis, C. 2009. »Designforschung. Neue Zugänge zur Wissensproduktion im Design.« In Kunst und künstlerische Forschung, edited by Caduff, C., Siegenthaler, F., Wälchli, T. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 98-107.
Mareis, C. 2009. »Etappen einer Geschichte von Kunst und Design als Forschung.« In Jahrbuch der Hochschule der Künste Bern, Bern: Hochschule der Künste.
https://arbor.bfh.ch/13287/1/Jahrbuch_Mareis.pdf
Mareis, C. 2009. »Kunst und Design als epistemische Praktiken.« In Postmediale Wirklichkeiten. Wie Zukunftsmedien unser Leben verändern, edited by Selke, S., Dittler, U. Hannover: Heise, 203-222.
Mareis, C. 2008. »Of sharks and dolphins. Reflections on practice-led design research based on the research project ›Artistic Modes of Depiction for Understanding Managing Professionals in Healthcare‹.« In Focused. Current Design Research Projects and Methods, edited by Michel, R. Bern: Swiss Design Network, 167-180.
Mareis, C. 2008. »Symbolisch-ästhetischer Widerstand. Eine Befragung.« In Spektakel, Lustprinzip oder das Karnevaleske? Ein Reader über Möglichkeiten, Differenzerfahrungen und Strategien des Karnevalesken in kultureller/politischer Praxis, edited by Gau, S., Schlieben, K. b_books, 167-180.
Mareis, C. 2008. »Ugly = Beautiful. Zeitgenössisches Grafikdesign unter dem Aspekt einer kritischen ästhetischen Praxis betrachtet.« In Stil, Stilbruch, Tabu. Stilerfahrung nach der Rhetorik. Eine Bilanz, edited by Rothe, M., Schröder, H. Münster: LIT Verlag, 121-137.
Articles
Mareis, C., Barrett, B. 2020. »Brainstorming Revisited: On Instrumental Creativity and Human Productivity in the Mid-Twentieth Century.« Cultural Politics, 16 (1): 50-69.
https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017256
Mareis, C. 2015. »TRIZ in the Aftermath of a Transnational Post-war History.« Procedia Engineering, 131: 500-508.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.12.444
Mareis, C. 2015. »TRIZ in the aftermath of a transnational post-war history.« Procedia Engineering, 131: 500–508.
Mareis, C. 2012. »Kreativität, morphologisches Weltbild und Erfindungsalgorithmus: Zur transnationalen Emergenz von Kreativitäts- und Ideenfindungstechniken vor dem Hintergrund des Kalten Krieges.« ILCEA, (16)
https://doi.org/doi.org/10.4000/ilcea.1260
Mareis, C. 2012. »The epistemology of the unspoken: On the concept of tacit knowledge in contemporary design research.« Design Issues, 28 (2): 61–71.
https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00143
Mareis, C. 2010. »Visual Productivity. Reflections on the foundations and correlations of design thinking.« Proceedings 21th Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics ›Aesthetics + Design‹. 1-6.
Conference Proceedings
Mareis, C., Bruder, J. 2016. »Demystifying the ›Creative‹. A Sketch for Creativity Research in the Context of Creative Industries and Design Research since the 1960s.« In Valentine, Louise et al. (ed.) The Value of Design Research: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Paris Descartes University, 22-24 April 2015. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University/European Academy of Design.
https://ead.yasar.edu.tr/conferences/ead-11-france-2015/11th-ead-proceedings/
Others
Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2023. Report (2019–2022).
Exhibitions
Beyer, B., De Visscher, E., Hathroubi, S., Hengge, R., Liedtke, M., Mareis C., Miodragovic, N., Rešetar, I., Suárez, D. Bacterial Cellulose: Co-Weaving Biofilms. Exhibition. Installation for the Triennale XXIII: »Unknown Unknows, An Introduction to Mysteries«. Milan. 15 July 2022 - 11 December 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/de/activities/8617/bacterial-cellulose-co-weaving-biofilms
Büsse, M. (curator), de Visscher, E. (curator), Banz, C., Dean, M., Dierichs, K., Eder, M., Eigen, L., Guiducci, L., Hehemeyer-Cürten, J., Jalkh, H., Kycia, A., Mareis, C., Nyakatura, J. A., Rasehorn, F., Rešetar, I., Ribault, P., Sauer, C., Sauer, I., Schneider, M., Stock, R., Shone, J., Wenig, C. Design Lab #13. Material Legacies. Exhibition. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum of Decorative Arts. Kunstgewerbemuseum. 3 November 2022 - 26 February 2023.
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/kunstgewerbemuseum/exhibitions/detail/design-lab-13/
Highlighted by TAZ, 15.11.2022.
Talks & Presentations
Mareis, C., Perraudin, L., Winkler, C., Löffler, P. Sprenger, F. Held, M. Future Ecologies Book Series Presentation. incl. Book Launch "Material Trajectories. Designing with Care?" at the Pro qm Bookstore. 23 February 2024.
Mareis, C. Balancing Action, Reflection, Critique. On the role of design in inter- and transdisciplinary research constellations. Keynote at the DAE Lecture Series. Design Academy Eindhoven. 9 May 2023.
Mareis, C. Coffee and Dialogue. Talk at the Future Design Embassy. Folkwang University of the Arts. 28 June 2023.
Mareis, C. Re-thinking Material Legacies through the Lens of Active Matter. Talk at the Lecture Series Thinking through Materialities: Insights from and for Gender Studies and Cultural Anthropology. University of Basel. 20 December 2023.
Mareis, C. Welt als Entwurf. Gestaltung im Kontext sozialer, politischer und ökologischer Probleme. Keynote at the 33. Auricher Wissenschaftstage. 29 September 2023.
Mareis, C. Designforschung - ein Feld mit vielen Facetten. Talk at the Lecture Series Research & Design, Technische Hochschule Augsburg, Faculty of Design. 18 January 2022.
Mareis, C. Gestaltung und Wissensgeschichte: Zur Designmethodologie um 1960. Talk at the Lecture Series Bits and Bites II - Feminist Art Education. University of Applied Arts Vienna. 15 March 2022.
Mareis, C. Im Entwurf: Perspektiven einer dritten Kultur des Wissens. Inaugural Lecture at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 19 July 2022.
Mareis, C. Intertwining trajectories towards a Design Turn. Talk at the Workshop The Design Turn. Recasting Expertise in cooperation with the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2 June 2022.
Mareis, C. Kombinatorische Kreativität: Entwerfen und Erfinden zwischen Ordnung und Kontingenz. Talk at the Lecture Series LOEWE-Schwerpunkt Architekturen des Ordnens. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. 21 April 2022.
Mareis, C. Un-learning Histories of Resilient Futures. New European Bauhaus Conference, Art, Architecture, Design, and the Climate Crisis: Old Bauhaus Politics. Virtual. 5 March 2022.
https://forajustdesignofclimatepolitics.com/
Mareis, C. Un-learning histories of resilient futures. Talk at the Symposium Re: New European Bauhaus. For A Just Design of Climate Politics. Klasse Klima, Berlin University of the Arts. Virtual. 4 March 2022.
https://forajustdesignofclimatepolitics.com/
Beyer, B., Cubasch, A., Fratzl, P., Hengge, R., Mareis, C., Perraudin, L., Sauer, C., Schäffner, W., for the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«. Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials. Panel Presentation at the »Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials«, Humboldt Forum Berlin. Hybrid. 29 April 2021.
https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/termin/science-humanities/do-bacteria-spin-a-yarn-20472/
Mareis, C. Designing Resilience: On A Third Culture with Many Transitions. Keynote at the 25th Annual DRHA Conference »Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene«, Heilig-Geist Kapelle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2020 »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective«, Freie Universität Berlin, and the practice-based research project »Viral Theatres«. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 6 September 2021.
https://www.temporal-communities.de/media/news/DRHA-2021-Interactive-Conference-Booklet.pdf
Mareis, C. Design als dritte Wissenskultur. Keynote at the Vorlesungsreihe »Schnittstellen«, Kunstuniversität Linz. Virtual. 19 May 2020.
Mareis, C. The Design Turn – Historical experiments into an epistemology of practice. Keynote at the COOP-Design Research Programm, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Virtual. 9 June 2020.
Mareis, C. Truth to Materials: Entangled Histories of Design and Material Politics. Talk at the 1st Annual Conference »The Analog in the Digital Age«, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 11 November 2020.
https://www.virtualspace.matters-of-activity.de/annualconference/?id=1
Mareis, C. Vom ›richtigen‹ Gebrauch des Materials. Materialdebatten Mitte des 19. Jh. revisited. Talk at the »Coworking Materials. Für einen aktiven Materialismus« Joint Conference of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz. Joint conference of the Cluster »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz. Virtual. 8 October 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2328/coworking-materials-fr-einen-aktiven-materialismus
Mareis, C. The design turn: Bridging the humanities and sciences divide. Keynote at the International AGYA Conference: The Place Of Humanities In Research, Education and Society: An Arab-German Dialogue, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 9 November 2019.
Mareis, C. Vom Patent zur Methode: Zur Systematisierung kreativer Arbeit am Beispiel der TRIZ (Theorie zur Lösung erfinderischer Probleme). Panel Presentation at the GfM-Jahrestagung ›Medien-Materialitäten‹, Materialität des Erfindens. Medien und Designpatente. Universität Köln. 26 September 2019.
Events & Workshops
Perraudin, L., Müller, M. (organizers). Sensing Common Grounds. Towards Collaborative Speculation. silent green Kulturquartier. With contributions by K. Lindström, E. Tikka, V. Tkaczyk, A. Jarry, J. Lohmann, C. Winkler, W. Schäffner, C. Mareis, C. Engemann, A. Schmiedel, F. Sprenger, C. Andersson, A. Yildirim Tschoepe, and J. Mehl. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 14 November 2024 - 15 November 2024.
Perraudin, L. and Müller, M. in conversation with Julia Lohmann, Claudia Mareis, Alice Jarry, and Camilla Andersson. Sensing Common Grounds. Towards Collaborative Speculation. Roundtable Discussion. Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 14 November 2024.
Brunner, Christoph, Kesselring, Rahel, Mareis, Claudia, Stock, Robert Critical Times I. Multiple Matter. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hybrid. 17 November 2023 - 18 November 2023.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/11626/critical-times-part-1-multiple-matter
Auger, James, Mareis, Claudia, Lockwood, Joe, Razghandi, Khashayar, Stock, Robert, Weber, Rasa. Frictioned Functionality. Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter. Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 22 October 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8495/frictioned-functionality-un-designing-un-sustainable-matter
Mareis, C, Büsse, M., Gründel, A., Perraudin, L. Lecture Series Dis/Entangling Material Futures. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 25 April 2022 - 18 July 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/7704/dis-entangling-material-futures
Held, M. (co-chair), Kimpel, K. (co-chair), Mareis, C. (co-chair), Perraudin, L. (organization), Sauer, C. (co-chair), Winkler, C. (organization). »Material Trajectories. Designing with Care«, 17th Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF). Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, weißensee school of art and design berlin. Virtual. 6 May 2021 - 8 May 2021.
https://materialtrajectories.dgtf.de/
Mareis, C., Büsse, M. Design and the History of Knowledge. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 30 June 2021.
Mareis, C., de Visscher, E. Material Negotiations: Practices of Biodesign. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 8 October 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/6395/material-negotiations-practices-of-biodesign
Mareis, C. with Büsse, M., Gruendel, A., Perraudin, L. Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 25 October 2021 - 14 February 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/de/activities/6386/dis-entangling-perspectives-in-material-research
Mareis, C., Miyazaki, S., Bruder, J., Himmelsbach, S., Magrin, B. Re-Imagining AI. Scholars, Artists and Designers in Dialogue. FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel. 20 June 2019 - 21 June 2019.
Mareis, C. , Rešetar, I. , De Visscher, E. Capsules, Sheets and Fibers – Designing Soft Interfaces. 1st Retreat of the Cluster »Matters of Activity«, Nauen. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2 November 2019.
Teaching & Courses
Maries, M (design theory), Clark, J. (anthropology), Bühn, S. (ecology), le Calvé, M. (anthropology), Weber, R. »Dark Fluidity: An immersive exploration of liquid ontologies in practice along the multispecies material ecologies of the river Schwärze«. Summer School: Frictioned Functionality. Un/designing Un/sustainable Matter. Matters of Activity, Humboldt-University of Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 22 October 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8495/frictioned-functionality-un-designing-un-sustainable-matter
Razghandi, K., Mareis, C., Stock, R., Auger, J., Lockwood, J., Wenig, C., Norris, L., Stark, S., Weber, R., Bühn, S., Clark, J., le Calvé. M. »Frictioned Functionality: Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter«. »Dark Fluidity. An immersive exploration of liquid ontologies in practice along the multispecies material ecologies of the Schwärze river«. MoA's First Interdisciplinary Autumn School., Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 22 October 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8495/frictioned-functionality-un-designing-un-sustainable-matter
External Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships & Residencies
Perraudin, L., Brock, O., Coelho Mollo, D., Mareis, C., Müller, M., Nestler, A., Puhlmann, S., Schäffner, W., Steinhardt, S. 2021. »Wenn Materie lebendig wird«. Experimentallabor für Wissenschaftskommunikation »CollActive Materials«. Berlin University Alliance, project funding for 2022-2024.
https://www.collactive-materials.de/
Mareis, C., Cupers, K., Halpern, O. 2020. Governing through Design: an interdisciplinary phenomenon. Sinergia Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation Project funding.
https://governingthrough.design/
Memberships
Mareis, C. Since 2022. Guest member in the jury of the TaDA »Artist in Residence« programme. TaDA Textile and Design Alliance, St. Gallen.
https://tada-residency.ch
Contributions in TV & Radio
Mareis, C., Pflaumbaum, N. Change by Design – Nachhaltig und schön: Mode. TV contribution, arte. 27 minutes, 24 August 2024.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/112308-001-A/change-by-design/
Press Articles
Scholl, A.-S. 2023. »PORTRÄT: Designerin des Designdenkens.« Porträt von Claudia Mareis. Horizonte. Das Schweizer Forschungsmagazin, 7 December 2023.
https://www.horizonte-magazin.ch/2023/12/07/designerin-des-designdenkens/
Molitor, N. 2022. »Ausstellungsempfehlung für Berlin: Am Knotenpunkt des Materials. Das 13. Design Lab im Kunstgewerbemuseum geht den Geschichten diverser Bau- und Designmaterialien auf den Grund. Befragt werden Werke aus der Sammlung.« taz, 15 November 2022.
https://taz.de/Ausstellungsempfehlung-fuer-Berlin/!5892190/