On the Intersection of Theory and Praxis

Konstantin Haensch received his M.A. in Communication in Social and Economic Contexts from Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. At UdK Berlin, he later worked as a Research Assistant and completed his dissertation project under the guidance of Thomas Düllo and Franz Liebl on the design & strategy history of the connected smart speaker in 2022.

He has taught B.A. and M.A. courses at UdK Berlin, HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. From 2020-23 he held a graduate stipend from the German Department at Princeton University, where he currently completes the M.A. program. Since March 2023, Konstantin has been a Professor of Design Management at HAWK – University of Applied Science and Arts in Hildesheim.

Situated at the interdisciplinary nexus of aesthetics, media culture, design, and economics/strategy, his research looks into the connections of various epistemologies and materialities that constitute objects of modernity, such as “entrepreneurship,” “interfaces,” and current design and creative dispositifs.

Konstantin Haensch also has a particular interest in the Chinese and East-Asian histories of media and economics. In this context, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong anthropology department as part of a research project on urban ethnography and cultural geography and presented a paper at the Crossroads Cultural Studies conference at Shanghai University.

Outside academia, he worked as a designer, tech startup founder, branding executive in a digital platform company, and independent strategy consultant. He is the founder and co-editor of the 8-volume book series texturen (Berlin), ‘Uncanny Issues’ (Hamburg), and co-editor of Genealogy of Media-Thinking (Berlin). 

 

Editorial Work

Book Series “texturen. Buchreihe für texturale Artikulationen”

Genealogy of Media Thinking

Uncanny Issues