MICHEL HOHENDANNER
GRAPHIC / SOCIAL DESIGN & DESIGN RESEARCH
ABOUT
Michel Hohendanner is a Research Associate at the Chair of Cyber Trust at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with Prof. Jens Grossklags.
From 2022 to 2025 Michel was Research Associate at the Munich Center for Digital Sciences and AI. From August to December 2024, Michel received a scholarship from the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) to conduct research studies on the perception of AI and cybernetic technology in Tokyo. In August and September 2022, Michel was visiting Prof. Hirotaka Osawa’s Hai Lab at KEIO University, Tokyo, for a Design Futuring project on the Metaverse. Between February and July 2020, Michel was a visiting researcher at the Kyoto Design Lab at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, doing research on design methods for promoting deliberative citizen dialogues under the supervision of Prof. Daijiro Mizuno.
With a background in Design Theory and Design Research Methods, Michel’s research focuses on the social impact of new emerging technologies like (generative) AI and social aspects of immersive technologies. His work is driven and informed by (speculative) design as method of inquiry, digital ethics, and human-computer interaction. Michel’s investigations are informed by lay-citizens’ and experts’ perspectives alike. This not only allows to explore possible impacts of technology roll-outs from a broad multi-stakeholder perspective but also to question prevailing narratives around the technologies’ anticipated benefits and risks.
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CV
since 2013 – Freelance Designer
2023 – Doctoral Candidate
Chair of Cyber Trust @ Technical University of Munich
2022 – Research Associate
Munich Center for Digital Sciences & AI (MUC.DAI) & the Faculty of Design (FK12) at University for Applied Sciences Munich
2021 – Research Associate
Institute for Digital Ethics at Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart
2020 – Researcher in Residence
Kyoto Design Lab (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
2020 – Advanced Design MA
University of Applied Sciences Munich
2017 – Fine Arts & Multimedia BA
(Minor: media informatics)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2014 – Literature Studies BA (Comparative Literature)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2013 – State-Certified Communications Designer
Designschule München
PUBLICATIONS
Full List @TUM Chair of Cyber Trust
Journal & Magazine Articles
- Hohendanner, M., Ullstein, C., Socher, G., & Grossklags, J. (2024) “Good and Scary at the Same Time” – Exploring Citizens’ Perceptions of a Prospective Metaverse. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue: The Pervasive Multiverse, 23(1), 27-36. Publisher Version (Open Access)
- Hohendanner, M., Ullstein, C., Miyamoto, D., Fukuwatari Huffman, E., Socher, G., Grossklags, J., & Osawa, H. (2024) Metaverse Perspectives from Japan: A Participatory Speculative Design Case Study. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), Article No. 400. Author Version, Publisher Version (Open Access)
- Doria, J., Grimm, P., Hohendanner, M. & Kuhnert, S. (2024) Designing and Evaluating an Interactive Learning Technology to Foster Privacy Literacy. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 17, 827-840. Publisher Version
Contributions to Conference Proceedings
- Hohendanner, M., Ullstein, C., Buchmeier, Y., & Grossklags, J. (2023) Exploring the Reflective Space of AI Narratives Through Speculative Design in Japan and Germany. Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT), pp. 351-362. Publisher Version (Open Access)
- Ullstein, C., Engelmann, S., Papakyriakopoulos, O., Hohendanner, M., & Grossklags, J. (2022) AI-competent Individuals and Laypeople Tend to Oppose Facial Analysis AI. Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), Article No. 9. Author Version, Publisher Version (Open Access)
- Hohendanner, M., Ullstein, C. & Mizuno, D. (2021). Designing the Exploration of Common Good within Digital Environments: A Deliberative Speculative Design Framework and the Analysis of Resulting Narratives. Proceedings of the Swiss Design Network Conference on Design as Common Good: Framing Design Through Pluralism and Social Values. ISBN: 978-88-7595-108-5. Publisher Version (Open Access), Complete Proceedings
Workshop Papers
- Ullstein, U., Hohendanner, M., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Mapping Policymakers‘ and Laypeople’s Perceptions of genAI and FPT in the Context of the EU AI Act. Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF), Mainz, Germany, forthcoming.
- Ullstein, C., & Hohendanner, M. (2020, September 7–11). Exploration of the Future of Co-Creative Systems Through Collaborative Speculative Design Practices. International Computational Creativity Conference 2020 (ICCC’20): The Future of Co-Creative Systems – A Workshop on Human-Computer Co-Creativity, Coimbra, Portugal. Publisher Version (Open Access)
CONFERENCE TALKS
- Imagining AI and a Prospective Metaverse: A Participatory Speculative Design Case Study from Japan and Reflections from Germany at the Many Worlds of AI Conference 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom | with Chiara Ullstein
- Cross-cultural perspectives on technology-driven future societies through the lens of collaborative speculative design. Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction 2022 organized by Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB) and Waseda University, Tokyo. Conference Program | with Chiara Ullstein and Yosuke Buchmeier
LECTURES & SEMINARS
- 2024: Media Theory at Munich University of Applied Sciences – Program: Design & Informatics
- 2022 & 2023: „Prozesse“ (Processes) at Munich University of Applied Sciences – Program: Design & Informatics, Content of Teaching: Design and Software Development processes through the conception of an application in the context of immersive technologies (2022), respectively generative AI (2023)
- 2023: „Designtheorie, Technik & Ethik“ (Designtheory, Technology and Ethics) at University of Wuppertal
Program: Industrial Design, Content of Teaching: Capacities and responsibilities of designers as decisive actors at the intersection of technology and society - 2022: „Design & Digitale Ethik“ (Design & Digital Ethics) at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Program: Design, Content of Teaching: Capacities and responsibilities of designers as decisive actors at the intersection of technology and society - 2021: „Wissenschaftliches Schreiben und Präsentieren“ (Scientific Writing and Presentation) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU)
Program: Fine Art & Multimedia
POPULAR MEDIA
- Hohendanner, M. (2024). Design als Anwendungsfeld der Digitalen Ethik. In: Grimm, P., Trost, K.E., & Zöllner, O.(Edt.). Handbuch Digitale Ethik. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden.
- Hohendanner, M. & Ullstein, C. (2024). Speculative Design for Policy? – Zur politischen Anschlussfähigkeit von Speculative Design & Design Fiction Ansätzen. In: Ebert, I., Rahn, S. & Rodatz, C.(Edt.). Wie gestalten wir Gesellschaft? – Interdependenzen zwischen Design und dem Feld des Sozialen. Transcript publishing, Bielefeld.
- Hohendanner, M. (2022). Design als Anwendungsfeld digitaler Ethik – Kompetenzen und Verantwortung einer Disziplin im medienethischen Diskurs. In: Selke, S. (Hrsg.). Zugluft Magazin #03 – Perspektiven auf den digitalen Wandel: „Digitaldialog 21“, Hochschule Furtwangen, S.114-117