Bio

With backgrounds in the arts, humanities, social sciences, engineering and business, Julian has spent the last few years working in design agencies between Copenhagen and Munich. A critic of typical progress slogans, Julian also teaches Design Futures at the Department of Innovation at the Technical University of Munich and works as a freelancer where he is dedicated to the practice of exploring, imagining and provoking debates about different, maybe better, pluralistic and hopeful futures using multimodal and art-based methods. His experiences in social psychological analysis, design anthropology, conceptual design exploration, product design, and innovation development has led him to work with clients around the world on various types of transformation projects, and to develop a creative approach to strategy-making. More recently, his passions for fieldwork in the wild, anthropology, psychoanalysis, human-animal interaction, music making/sound design, and the camera have inspired him to start exploring what may lie ''beyond the human'' and what this might mean for human creativity as well as a theory and practice of ecocentric design.