Meike Hardt
Design and Research
2022—ARTICLE
Designing with Algorithms—Reflections on the Book Design. A design commentary in: Dörrenbacher, J./Hassenzahl, M./Neuhaus, R./Ringfort-Felner, R.. Meaningful Futures with Robots—About the Design of a New Coexistence with Machines. Taylor and Francis.
2022—PUBLICATION
Research assistance, graphic design and writing for the publication: Mareis, M./Greiner-Petter, M./Renner, M. (2022). Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, Transcript. →here
2022—ARTICLE
“Ci concimiamo a vicenda”, Building support structures as part of design practice. Interview with Bianca Elzenbaumer in: Mareis, M./Greiner-Petter, M./Renner, M. (2022). Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, Transcript. →here
2022—ARTICLE
Critical By Design? The book's design as SF figures. A design commentary in collaboration with Marius Förster in: Mareis, M./Greiner-Petter, M./Renner, M. (2022). Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, Transcript. →here
2021—WORKSHOP
Audio walk “Rehearsing interconnected design practice”, in collaboration with RIBL (Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics), at the Conference: “Attending (to) Futures”, Technology Arts Science, TH Köln. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design. →here
2021—LECTURE
“Let’s design with monsters. An attempt for interconnected (design) practices.” and Workshop “Cross-Species Survival”, in collaboration with RIBL, at Master Studio, FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design.
2020—LECTURE
“Socially engaged design practice—a dilemma?” at Conference: “Werkstatt Gesellschaft” at FH Aachen, University of Applied Science. Research subject: Alternative (design-) economies.
2019—WORKSHOP
“Cross-Species Surviving” in collaboration with RIBL, at Neuhaus Curriculum at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design.
2018—WORKSHOP
“All too human”, a dinner workshop in collaboration with RIBL, at Hackers&Designers Summer School in Amsterdam. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design.
2018—CONFERENCE
Research, coordination, co-moderation of one panel of the "Critical by Design? The Potentials and Limitations of Materialized Critique” conference at Academy of Art and Design in Basel. Research subject: Criticality in design, socially and politically engaged design practice. →here
2017—WORKSHOP
“Living things out”, an interdisciplinary teaching format in collaboration with Martin Sonderkamp and Darko Dragicevic at the Y-Institut, Bern University for Arts (BUA) Research subject: Critical Design, interdisciplinarity.
2015—ARTICLE
“Datenspuren: Data Traces: Big Data in the Context of Culture & Society”, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at Academy of Art and Design (FHNW) in cooperation with Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel (HeK). →here
Meike Hardt (she/her) is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher interested in the political dimension of design, working on the subjects of artificial intelligence, democratic practices, and feminist love studies. From 2022 to 2024, she worked as an affiliated researcher and teacher at the Industrial Design Engineering department in the Human-Computer Design faculty and the AI DeMoSlab at TU Delft, Netherlands. From 2018 to 2021, she worked as a researcher and coordinator for the research project Critical by Design? at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland. She is the initiator of the Feminist Design Reading Group and part of the design research group RIBL, Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics, which investigates design from a critical posthuman perspective. She was co-founder of the design studio m—d—bureau in Zurich from 2016 to 2020 and worked at the University of Arts in Bern as an assistant and teacher for the MA Design program from 2014 to 2017.
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Meike Hardt
Design and Research
Meike Hardt is a multidisciplinary designer and a Ph.D. researcher at AI DeMos Lab, TU Delft. She is interested in the political dimension of design and is researching about community-led design practice, "critical" making within the socio-technological context, and diverse (design) economies, using intersectional feminist and post-colonial theories as lenses. She initiated the Feminist Design Reading Group and is part of the design research group RIBL, Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics, which investigates design from the critical posthuman perspective. From 2018 to 2021, she was involved as a researcher and coordinator, in the research project Critical by Design? at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland, and from 2016 to 2020, she was co-founder of the design studio m—d—bureau in Zurich.
→ Get in touch here
2022—ARTICLE
Designing with Algorithms—Reflections on the Book Design. A design commentary in: Dörrenbacher, J./Hassenzahl, M./Neuhaus, R./Ringfort-Felner, R.. Meaningful Futures with Robots—About the Design of a New Coexistence with Machines. Taylor and Francis.
2022—PUBLICATION
Research assistance, graphic design and writing for the publication: Mareis, M./Greiner-Petter, M./Renner, M. (2022). Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, Transcript. →here
2022—ARTICLE
“Ci concimiamo a vicenda”, Building support structures as part of design practice. Interview with Bianca Elzenbaumer in: Mareis, M./Greiner-Petter, M./Renner, M. (2022). Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, Transcript. →here
2022—ARTICLE
Critical By Design? The book's design as SF figures. A design commentary in collaboration with Marius Förster in: Mareis, M./Greiner-Petter, M./Renner, M. (2022). Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions, Transcript. →here
2021—WORKSHOP
Audio walk “Rehearsing interconnected design practice”, in collaboration with RIBL (Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics), at the Conference: “Attending (to) Futures”, Technology Arts Science, TH Köln. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design. →here
2021—LECTURE
“Let’s design with monsters. An attempt for interconnected (design) practices.” and Workshop “Cross-Species Survival”, in collaboration with RIBL, at Master Studio, FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design.
2020—LECTURE
“Socially engaged design practice—a dilemma?” at Conference: “Werkstatt Gesellschaft” at FH Aachen, University of Applied Science. Research subject: Alternative (design-) economies.
2019—WORKSHOP
“Cross-Species Surviving” in collaboration with RIBL, at Neuhaus Curriculum at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design.
2018—WORKSHOP
“All too human”, a dinner workshop in collaboration with RIBL, at Hackers&Designers Summer School in Amsterdam. Research subject: Posthumanism and Design.
2018—CONFERENCE
Research, coordination, co-moderation of one panel of the "Critical by Design? The Potentials and Limitations of Materialized Critique” conference at Academy of Art and Design in Basel. Research subject: Criticality in design, socially and politically engaged design practice. →here
2017—WORKSHOP
“Living things out”, an interdisciplinary teaching format in collaboration with Martin Sonderkamp and Darko Dragicevic at the Y-Institut, Bern University for Arts (BUA) Research subject: Critical Design, interdisciplinarity.
2015—ARTICLE
“Datenspuren: Data Traces: Big Data in the Context of Culture & Society”, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at Academy of Art and Design (FHNW) in cooperation with Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel (HeK). →here