Credit: Armin Riedel
Christian Zöllner
Founder, Art Director, Time Machine Operator
Christian Zöllner is an interdisciplinary working designer and educator in the fields of computational design, speculative design and social design. Since 2018 he is professor for Design in Digital Context at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. He worked in design studios in Paris and Vienna before he founded the crossdisciplinary media art collective VR/Urban in Berlin. He teached at the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, HUST Wuhan in China and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Beside his academic activities he runs the design and research studio The Constitute together with Sebastian Piatza. Works of The Constitute have been exhibited worldwide in Institutions such as MoMA New York, Medialab Prado Madrid, Quanzhou Media Biennale and Zeche Zollverein Essen.
Christian Zöllner is chairman of the non-profit Fabmobil Association which brings creative technologies to young people in decentralized rural areas in East Germany. Since 2025 He co-runs the Academy for Applied Futures, an inofficial school for gifted youngsters in the fields of Design, Digitality and transformative practices.
