Lectures/workshops (selection)
- 2021- Shared and entangled: design in a globalized world, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK
- 2020- Approaches to Media Theory, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
- 2020/2021 Image, Technology, Politics, with Björn Franke, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK
- 2018- From Project to Scene: Exhibiting as technique of everyday-life and professional medium of the arts, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
- 2017 Untitled: The Language of Titles in Contemporary Art, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
- 2016/2011 Visiting critic, Hochschule der Künste, Berne
- 2015 Situations: regarding the production of spaces and relations, with Tido von Oppeln, HfG Karlsruhe
- 2014 Rethink the Modular, USM Masterclasses at Domaine de Boisbuchet (France), with Go Hasegawa, Allan Wexler, Bless, and others, co-head with Tido von Oppeln
- 2008-2014 A History of Contemporary Art: I Avantgardes, II Criticism and Appropriation, III The Body as Device, Series of lectures, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK
- 2012 Realism and the disappearing of reality, with Rudolph Jula, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK
- 2007-2009 The Space of Illusion and Critical Space, University of Liechtenstein
- 2006-2008 Im Gespräch: Lecture and workshop programme with contemporary artists, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK
- 2005-2006 Contemporary art production, with Stefan Wagner, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK and the University of Zürich, Art History Department
Public talks/discussions (selection)
- 2022 Designing Atmosphere? A technological-aestethic practice across cultures, conference presentation for “Aesthetics of the Atmosphere in an Intercultural Perspective”, Universität Hildesheim/Zheijang University, Hangzhou
- 2022 Breathe In, Breathe Out, Johannes Itten and East Asia, conference presentation on the occassion of the 8th international EAM (European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies) conference, Nova University Lisbon
- 2021 Soft Shapes: Technical and Aesthetic Perspectives on Thingness in Contemporary Art, conference presentation at “Technik/Ästhetik – Zur materialen und rezeptiven Systematisierung techno-ästhetischer Realität”, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (online)
- 2019 The Comfort of Smart Devices–The End of Pop? Global Pop Cultures conference and workshop, Kyōto Seika University/Shared Campus
- 2018 The Realism of Design in Contemporary Art, Lecture on the occasion of the 6th international EAM (European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies) conference, University of Münster
- 2018 Aesthetization – How a swearword turned positive, X. Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, HfG Offenbach
- 2017 Vitamin Water – How Design became Arts Critical Agent, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2017 Communicating Across Economies, Vitra Design Museum/Academy of Art and Design, Weil am Rhein/Basel
- 2016 Exhibiting – On the Critique of Efficacy in the Arts, discussion with Sabeth Buchmann and Ilse Lafer, Kunsthalle Bern
- 2015 The Effect of Reality, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK
- 2012 The Agency Switch, Kunstverein Hannover
- 2011 Two Case Studies on Landscape, Interiors and Abstraction in Contemporary Art, Kingston University, London
- 2010 The work of design and the lifeworld of art, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Research
- 2012-2015 Design, Art, Lifeworld – Aesthetic Strategies and Cultural Agency, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK in collaboration with Berlin University of the Arts UDK, concept and co-head with Tido von Oppeln
- 2010-2011 Prototype II – Representation of Furniture in Design and Art, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK in collaboration with the University of St. Gallen, ETH Zürich, vitra design museum and migros museum für gegenwartskunst, concept and co-head with Tido von Oppeln
- 2008-2009 Prototype – Furniture in Design and Art, Zürich University of the Arts ZHdK in collaboration with University of St. Gallen, ETH Zürich, vitra design museum and migros museum für gegenwartskunst, concept and head of project