Resonance and Ontological Design: On Facilitating and Obstructing Transformative Teaching and Learning Experiences in Design Education

Lisa Baumgarten is a critical design mediator working in design, research, as writer and as teacher/learner. She is the co-creator of the participatory research platform Teaching Design which focuses on design education from intersectional feminist perspectives. Lisa has been teaching design theory and practice as adjunct lecturer at German and international design universities since 2017. From Oct 2021–Sept 2022 Lisa was part of the Institute of Design Research at HBK Braunschweig as interims professor of Design Sciences where she facilitated seminars in the MA program Transformation Design. Since Oct 2022 Lisa is a guest professor at Studiengruppe Informationdesign (Communication Design) at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle. Her current research focuses on design mediation as critical practice and the potentials and shortfalls of institutional critique within design study programs. Lisa’s research and writing has been published and presented amongst others at Creative Bodies—Creative Minds Conference, Graz (AU), Designsymposium “Kompliz*innen” at BURG Halle (DE), the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF) as well as formdesign magazine.