Prof. Dr. Christof Windgätter

Since 2012 Christof Windgätter is Professor of Media Theory at the University of Europe of Applied Sciences (UE), Campus Berlin, Department – Art & Design.
As a studied Philosopher and Germanist, he received his doctorate in Kulturwissenschaften and Media Theory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2007 to 2009 he was postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and in 2009 fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Subsequently, he became Research Fellow at the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. He was an assistant lecturer at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, lecturer in the master's programme Communication Design at the University of the Arts in Bern and guest professor at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.
In his habilitation thesis, he dealt with design strategies for branding in the sciences. His main field of research is the history, the praxis and the design of media and knowledge-produktion; combination of scientific and creative processes as well as epistemologies of the visual in science, art and everyday life.
University of Europe of Applied Sciences
Campus Berlin
Department Art & Design
Dessauer Str. 3–5
10963 Berlin
Monographs & Books
Windgätter, C. 2016. Wissenschaft als Marke. Schaufenster, Buchgestaltung und die Psychoanalyse. Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose.
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Schnödl, G., Windgätter, C. eds. 2021. ‚Hautlichkeit'. Oberflächen in Wissenschaft und Design. DesignWissen Bd. 3. Berlin: Kadmos.
Blümle, C., Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. eds. 2019. Visuelle Zeitgestaltungen. Bildwelten des Wissens. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik. Berlin/Boston: Akademie Verlag.
Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. eds. 2018. Wild Thing. Unordentliche Prozesse in Design und Wissenschaft. Berlin: Kadmos.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Windgätter, C. 2019. »Etienne-Jules Marey lässt sich fotografieren (um 1890).« In Bildwelten des Wissens , edited by Blümle, C., Mareis, C., Windgätter, C. B. 14. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 91-94.
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.
Windgätter, C. 2018. »Das metrische Selbst. Geschichte, Gestaltung, Gegenwart.« In Kritische Lebenskunst. Analysen, Orientierungen, Strategien, edited by Gödde, G., Zirfaß, J. Stuttgart: Metzler, 152-161.