Vera and Ruedi Baur
Vera Baur-Kockot
Sociologist and anthropologist
Vera Baur has a degree in Cultural Science at Luenburg (Germany) and she is an associate investigator in Sociology of Design at St. Gallen University – Switzerland. Vera Baur makes interdisciplinary practices and investigations in the border of culture, politics and science. She is the founder and director of Interdis, an interdisciplinary institute based in Zurich/Berlin/Paris that develops publications, exhibitions, conferences and investigation projects since 1989. After an international career as a curator and director of contemporary art centers, Vera Baur co directed the Arts, Design and Media Technology Institute of the University of Nuremberg (2000/2004) and the Design2context Institute of the University of Zurich. She was co founder and member of the directing committee of the Interdisciplinary Visual Studies Society and the Transmedia Academy of Hellerau, in Dresden. Vera Baur is the Chair of the City Institute civic association for the investigation of science and design critic, and the director, with Ruedi Baur, of the doctorate programme “Visible/Invisible” in the School of Arts and Design of Geneva. Vera Baur is also responsible for the social design department of the Intégral studio, Paris/Zurich.
Ruedi Baur
Designer
Ruedi Baur has been placing his design work in the context of the public space since the 1980s. Working primordially as a graphic designer for numerous cultural institutions, he has also been teaching interdisciplinary courses at the ENSBA Lyon since the 1990s on the theme of “the Information-Space” and a postgraduate course entitled “Urban Spaces and Design”. He intervenes on problems related to the identification, orientation, scenography and, in broader terms, the representation of institutions, urban spaces and political territories, often alongside architects and urban planners. A proponent of interdisciplinary design, Baur created the Intégral network in 1989 with its own workshops: Intégral Ruedi Baur in Paris and Zurich. Today, he lectures and develops research programs in the HEAD University of Geneva, ENSAD in Paris and at the University of Strasbourg where he leads Idex action research in complex identities, legibility and comprehensibility. He lectures and implements research in China, Argentina and Brazil. Two workshops, Intégral Ruedi Baur Paris and Intégral Ruedi Baur Zurich, the Laboratoire IRB, Applied Research Workshop and the Institute for Research in Design Civic City accompany Ruedi Baur today. The most recent of the many wayfinding, visual identity and scenography projects he has designed are the visual identity of Manifesta 11, the sign and wayfinding system of the New School in New York, the Cologne-Bonn and Vienna airports, and the urban design project, La Phrase, for the European Capital of Culture, Mons. Baur has just completed the design of the passenger information system of the Grand Paris Project metro of the future (2022-2030) with the Intégral Paris team.
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