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Johannes Pointner

is a design researcher, project lead, and doctoral candidate working at the intersection of spatial design, artificial intelligence, and human–computer interaction. His practice focuses on Research through Design, experience prototyping, and transdisciplinary research and teaching formats.

Since 2022, he has been part of the M.A. Design & Computation at Berlin University of the Arts and Technische Universität Berlin. As the programme’s first academic staff member, he has contributed to its development, institutional establishment, and design research orientation. His work includes coordinating research and teaching projects, developing studios, workshops, exhibitions, and public formats, and supervising more than 80 interdisciplinary projects and master’s theses.

His doctoral research at Berlin University of the Arts investigates how physical environments can become interactive and adaptive interfaces. Through spatial prototypes, he explores how sensing technologies, artificial intelligence, and situated forms of feedback can support shared learning, working, and collaboration. The research is situated within New Practice in Art and Technology.

Across projects such as AISI, Immersive ECHO, New Practice Co-Lab, and LOOPs, he collaborates with partners from design, art, technology, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. He is particularly interested in translating complex technological and societal questions into tangible artefacts, environments, and experiences that can be tested, discussed, and developed collectively.