Prof Dr Helga Schmid becomes the new Dean of the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

Prof Dr Helga Schmid is a researcher, designer and artist with international teaching and exhibition experience. She has worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Royal College of Art in London and the Design Museum London, among others. At the London College of Communication, she was initially a course leader and later programme director in Graphic Design Communication. Her research focuses on the concept of uchrony and examines time as a malleable cultural system at the intersection of Design, sociology and chronobiology.

Her artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Serpentine Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Dia Art Foundation and the Victoria and Albert Museum. They are currently on display at the MIT Museum in Boston. She has received international awards for her work, including Type and Art Directors Awards, a Fulbright Scholarship and two DAAD scholarships.

Schmid studied at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, gained a Master's degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York and completed her doctorate at the Royal College of Art. In addition to her professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, she is a Visiting Fellow at the University of the Arts London.

On taking office, Prof Dr Helga Schmid says: "We live in a web of relationships - with each other and in our time. Our Department of Design is more than an organisational structure: it is a growing network of perspectives, practices and opportunities that is constantly evolving in exchange with students.
As the new Dean, I am looking forward to accompanying this exchange with responsibility and commitment. Together, I would like to open up paths of learning in which experiments, narratives, ideas and research come together and diverse perspectives for shaping our future emerge."

Vice-Deans of the Department of Design

Prof. Matthias Beyrow (1st Vice-Dean)
Permanent Representative of the Dean and Vice-Dean for Teaching and Learning

Prof. Boris Müller (2nd Vice-Dean for Teaching and Learning)Vice-Dean)
Deputy Dean and Vice-Dean for Special Affairs

Prof. Christina Poth
Vice-Dean for Special Affairs of the Programme Director for Communication Design

Prof. Hermann Weizenegger
Vice-Dean for Special Affairs of the Programme Director for European Media Studies

Prof. Anne Quirynen
Vice-Dean for Special Affairs of the Programme Director for European Media Studies