Theory and forms of expression of visual communication

Second integrated subject:
Theory and forms of expression of visual communication

The integrated subject is tought within the semester project (SS 2010)

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Teching language:
german

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Lecturer:
Prof. Hans Leo Höger (I) | Associate professor (FUB)

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About the lecturer:
Design theorist, consultant, author Hans Höger (* 1960), Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, teaches theory and history of design and communication at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He studied art history, romance philology, folklore and empirical cultural sciences at the Universities of Bonn, Perugia, Tübingen and Quimper. In 1996 he was appointed Commissioner of the German participation at 19th Milan Triennale (“Identity and Differences: The Future of Urban Living Spaces”). In the same year he was responsible for the programme “Attitudes for the New Millennium” within the IDCA International Design Conference in Aspen/Colorado. He was associate lecturer at the Bocconi University (Milan), as well as visiting and guest professor at Würzburg, Saarbrücken, Zurich and New York. In his work as a consultant for companies and design studios, he focuses his attention upon design topics in the context of economics, culture and society. Numerous publications, amongst others two monographs on the work of Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass jr. The topics of his most recent publications regard Design & Politics, Designing with Light, Experience Design, Cultural Engineering and Zurich-Milano: graphical encounters between 1945 and 1970.

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Contact:
hans.hoeger@unibz.it

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