Prof. Dr. Stephan Guenzel

Professor Dr. Günzel is Head of the Theory Department at UE Berlin. His expertise lies in Media Theory, Spaces, Photography, and Philosophy, which supports his teaching in the fields of Game Design, History of Art and Design, History of Photography, Media Theory, Film/Motion History and more at UE Berlin. Prof. Günzel is the coordinator of the Institute of Design Research which now focuses on the projects the colleagues are doing outside the university to bring into the university and encourage what they are doing outside of research and turn it into research.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

since 2016
Head of Institute for Design Research (IF)

2014–2016
Head of Programme Game Design

since 2011
Professor for Theory at University of Applied Sciences Europe (former BTK)

2010
Visiting professor at HKFZ, Universität Trier

2009–2010
Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, Universität Klagenfurt

2009
Visiting professor at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2008–2010
Research assistant at IKM and coordinator of the Digital Games Research Center at Universität Potsdam
Lecturer for the study programme European Media Studies at FH Potsdam

2008–2009
Interim professor at the Institute for Media Studies, Universität Basel

2007–2009
Lecturer for the study programme Space Strategies at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

2005–2007
Research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

2002–2005
Lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

2002–2004
Post-doctoral fellow at Winkelmann-Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

1998–2000
Research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

1992–1997
studied Philosophy, Sociology, and Psychology in Bamberg, Manchester, and Magdeburg

1971
born in Coburg