Wolfgang Schäffner

Wolfgang Schäffner, a historian of science and media technologies, has been professor of the Cultural History of Knowledge at the Department of History and Theory of Culture at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009. He is Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques and Spokesperson (together with Horst Bredekamp and Peter Fratzl) of the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge Gestaltung« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and thus responsible for the Humboldt Laboratory of the Humboldt-Universität at the Humboldt-Forum. He has also been Permanent Guest Full Professor and Director of the Walter Gropius Program at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the Universidad de Buenos Aires since 2005 and head of the German-Argentinian Master-Program »Open Design« of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Universidad de Buenos Aires in cooperation with the Centro internacional del Diseño del Conocimiento »Tomás Maldonado« at Buenos Aires.  

Research fields

History and theory of analog code, interdisciplinary design, material epistemology, transatlantic knowledge transfers, architectures of knowledge.